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Papadum preach - Madonna.

These look gorgeous. I especially like the maple necked one, black hardware sets it off really nicely.

Old time rock 'n' roll - Bob Seger

Maybe I'll catch fire - Alkaline trio

I'm working to a similar idea. Trying to leave 2025 with less gear than I started with.

Thunder road - Bruce Springsteen

I have a set of black labels in a passive TT, definitely no lack of bite in them to my ear, but I've never tried Sandbergs Alnico 5s for comparison.

Looks great that. More grey basses!

I'd have guessed ebony too.

Ooooh that looks lovely, I like the contrast of the really dark and plain fretboard against the silver flake.

Cheers mate! Theres an NBD thread about it if you're interested.

I just got one too. I haven't heard it against other instruments yet but I'm really impressed so far.

It'll look amazing with in either tort or mint in my opinion. @DaleASmith are you still thinking about a GZR for it?

Stop! - Against Me!

A partscaster precision I recently finished. I really like the combination of ice blue metallic, anodised gold and roasted flamed maple.

Lovely looking bass! The body finish is super cool.

There already are some, the modern player series was Chinese, basically the squier CV build with different pickups.

I think it's Lake Placid Blue but I could be wrong.

That's a lovely looking bass and a bargain! I agree with Loz about the tort plate though.

That's really good to know, I'm pretty happy with the decision based on home playing. I think it'll work well for my current bands sound. I guess the good thing I can swap it out in the future if I the mood takes me.

Thanks mate! The seller is called Musiclily UK. It came from China and seems decent quality, I'm hoping it ages interestingly.

Thanks all, I've only been able to play it at home so far. Initial impressions are very positive, it's very resonant unplugged, sounds great to my ear and feels right. It's first rehearsal is next weekend, I'm really keen to hear how it does in the context of drums and guitars.

I was initially quite impressed that fender had brought these out, it can't be a bad thing to have the F on the headstock of a budget friendly bass. But like everyone else has said it's really hard not to draw comparisons to the squier CVs, which will no doubt be objectively pretty similar quality and to my eye better looking.

Thanks! I hadn't noticed the mixer in the merge block. That'll stop the clean sound being colored at all. I'll have a look at the other splits too. Sending just highs to the dirty bit could be interesting.

It took a while longer to come together than expected, but today I took delivery of this absolute beauty and I'm pretty happy with it. The idea (inspired by a mate who's done similar tele and strat builds) was to build a really high quality vintage looking P bass but with modern appointments. The same kind of idea as buying a classic car and putting a modern drive train in it. The body came from MJTs eBay store. I had waited for an Aztec gold one to come up for a few months, one finally did but it sold for more than I was willing to pay. Shortly after this ice blue metallic one came up, I'd never heard of it before but after some googling I was pretty sold. I bid, won, paid the import, waited for delivery and finally it arrived in early August. The bridge is a gotoh 203 and the tuners are gotoh resolites. I'm really happy with both, they look classic but are slight functional improvements over the what an actual vintage bass would have, fitting in nicely with the restomod idea. Pickup and electronics are EMG GZR. I agonised over the decision, it's really easy to get analysis paralysis with P bass pick-ups because there are so many available. I considered Kloppmann, Bare knuckle, Di Marzio model P, various Seymour Duncans and probably a few more. Then I played another bass with the GZR in it and enjoyed it, so because I couldn't test any of the others I ordered the GZR. I may change it in the future but for now I'm pretty sold, it does exactly what I want it to, not that I could describe what that is. The strat and tele that inspired the build both have Warmoth necks. I enquired about getting the spec I wanted built and they weren't able to help, I wanted a 16" radius which they apparently don't do on bass necks, so it was back to the drawing board. I ended up contacting Jon Shuker about building a neck and ordered the same spec as he uses for the JJ Burnel Zenith bass, I shipped the body and parts to Jon, he built the neck to fit the pocket and assembled and set the bass up, all for less money that my mate had paid for his Warmoth necks after shipping and tax! Today it finally arrived and I'm over the moon. I'll list the full spec below for those that are interested. Most importantly there are photos. It weighs a shade over 4kg. Neck (Shuker): Roasted flamed maple. Carbon reinforcement. Stainless frets. Brass nut. Luminlay side dots. Black fret board markers. 16" radius. Gentle c carve. 43mm nut. 20.5mm depth at the first fret. 22.5mm at the 12th. Body (MJT): Alder with usual contours. Lightly aged ice blue metallic finish (nitrocellulose). Hardware: Gotoh resolite tuners in nickel. Gotoh 203 brass bridge in nickel. Gotoh aged domed nickel nobs. Gotoh large nickel strap buttons. eBay special anodized scratch plate. Electronics: EMG GZR pick-up and wiring. I think it came together pretty well!