Beedster

Although the best double act prize goes to @redstriper "I like it" @wateroftyne "Thanks goodness, at least Fender will now have the option of giving them away"

Although I think this wins the prize @discreet "Two 51-type pups at neck and bridge is not too crazy an idea, and is in fact very original, but Fender really have dropped an orb with the overall design of this, imho. I think they must scour the forums to see what's hot - then do the exact opposite. It's the only possible explanation"

It really is a very amusing thread, probably less so if you owned one of the basses in question at the time and were hoping to sell it I wonder if that gentleman is still here, there's a couple of candidates.......... 😉

Genius Luke

I'm taking each and every one of those posts personally It's a genius thread though, I imagine phones ringing at 2.30am in Corona on a cold January 2013 morning calling FCS decision-makers into a 3.00am emergency meeting "Guys, the Precision Pro is getting beaten up by the Limies, we're gonna have to pull it before it brings down the whole damn Custom Shop'

Ha ha, I suspect you'll find some solace here then ......

Enigmatic post @Buckminster Emptier ?

Never really thought of SOAD as nu metal 🤔

Ha ha, great minds, your's looks nicer

And how right you are Luke

I didn't realise that Luke, that interesting, and those Alphers look bloody amazing, I'm just not sure they'd look so amazing slung around me

Re prog I was slightly tongue in cheek with reference to another thread, but there are time where the time signature changes sound decidedly prog even in some of their later stuff

Exactly my thinking, different yet familiar

Thanks mate, yes they were apparently stupid money when released, there's no way I'd be buying this bass new, but I remember think at the time "To all intents it's just a 50's SC Precision with an extra PUP, what's all the fuss?", and then thinking "Actually I imagine that's a pretty good combination. I read a couple of posts on TB by guys who'd modded their SC Precisions similarly and seemed quite happy with the results so the idea stuck. And frankly the used price wasn't much more that standard US Precisions are going for these days......... In my quest for something with two PUPs but a little out of the ordinary (I've fallen out of love with P/J and never was much of one for J/J anyway) I was also having a good long look at this bass, but over and above being less than impressed by the shop selling it, realised that it lacked a PUP in the all important sport. So I think I made the right choice

@Ed_S you get the prize I came very close to buying one a few years back when I was looking for a bass with twin singe coils (and was thinking of installing a pair of those Nordy SCs in Jazz Bass cases and install in a Jazz body, but I couldn't get the PUPs in the UK at the time so gave up). The bridge doesn't work for me so I'm going to find something a little more Fender. It ticks a lot of the boxes I wanted ticked in an electric bass at present, bit of a gamble but c'est la via ......

Rock without the theatrics sums them up to a degree

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About 60 secs in, those are proper power chords aren't they?

It was made in Corona CA ............

Getting colder again

No, but I did have a good look at a few though, as I did with Bravewood and Limelight.....

I think there's a degree of the subconscious will involved also

Warmer.....