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Beedster

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  1. Damn, there was I thinking I might do some bass playing this weekend and along comes this bloody thread, the watching of which is clearly going to become the BC equivalent of painting the Forth Bridge
  2. I’ve been there a few times
  3. Thanks so much for posting this, I hadn't come across him previously but am now hooked. Rare example of extraordinary groove, creativity and technical skill working so well in and complimenting the track
  4. Odd, I had the opposite problem, tried to remove it, wasn’t easy
  5. Board is quite pale, I’d go light coloured body
  6. Re basswood, I had a lovely light Precision a few years back, very resonant and toneful. Having decided it was a keeper I made the mistake of stripping the body to find it was ply. Wood’s a funny old material, I really wouldn’t worry too much about it
  7. You’ll need two of them Owen
  8. Hey Mike, just checking, are the dots where the frets would be (I think this is the case on an Allparts fretless neck), or between where the frets would be as they would be on a fretted neck?
  9. Basswood strikes me as a pretty good choice for a bass?
  10. The top string ran very close to the edge of the fingerboard on mine, and I understand on a few other 5-ers. I had to have a new nut cut to correct this, but it was still a problem. Not the best design, which I suspect is why you see so few of them. The TR-7 of basses
  11. I’ve owned many very expensive basses and the two I’m left with cost me a total of around £800. Part of it is increasingly high levels of skintness, but also a recognition of what I need versus what I want. The latter tends to be where the expense creeps in
  12. Given what you’ve said I’d go MIJ, price:quality ratio is generally good and made better still by the overall consistency of quality by comparison with MIA and MIM (although the latter are catching up by all accounts). The closest instruments to 60s Precisions I’ve played have been 80s/90s MIJ, often better instruments than US Custom Shop (probably some cognitive dissonance in the mix however)
  13. Used to own this..... Fender 40th Anniversary Precision. Built like a tank, made my Wal feel flimsy. Without doubt the most rock solid bass I've ever played, beautifully engineered, the neck was extraordinary (there's nought better than an unmarked ebony neck after all). Seemed a nod to the future at the time, Fender don't seem to have got much further since.....?
  14. And now you brought slap into it as well
  15. Round Here - Counting Crows
  16. So the O/P's question should be 'new, vintage or bitsa'
  17. But yes, if you know what you want in a Precision, then a bitsa self-build is the way to go, and often cheaper than buying a whole bass. The below is my keeper instrument, OK I've come close to selling a couple of times due to COVID cash flow issues, but having survived it remains my go to bass. It's like a Fender Custom Shop Tony Franklin Relic, although slightly more resonant than was my original TF (courtesy largely of a VERY good Warmoth neck with perfect ebony board and shallow depth 44mm nut which has made every bass on which it has been installed resonate for longer), Lollar PJ set, Kiogon harness, vintage Gotoh lollipop tuners (the aesthetics of which for some reason I really like), all for around the cost of a used MIM Precision. As per some of the comments above, basses are a lottery, with bitsas you just keep playing the lottery, albeit with components as opposed to instruments, which is a lot cheaper. It's also far more diagnostic/scientific, because with each switch you're in effect conducting a controlled experiment along the lines "what difference does switching this for this actually make?'. You get there eventually, it's fun but you also, I believe, end up with a bass that you feel closer to as the result.
  18. There'll be another along soon I'm sure folks
  19. Sold to The Real Walshy
  20. Always a good sign.........
  21. Good stuff Nik, I'm lining up the necessary tools as I write .............
  22. The unlined FL neck is going nowhere Brian, trust me
  23. There is wisdom there Nik. Problem is I'll no doubt join the '78 neck to the '78 body and find it's the holy grail I've been searching for all these years Hope all's well mate Chris
  24. That would fail a primary school design project
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