Precisions

[Lozz196]

10 minutes ago, M@23 said:

The one I had previously, I sold to IanA on here and he fitted a Nordstrand too. 
I’ll have a look at the string retainer, do you find it benefitted from it?

I put one on a 5-string Precision a while back and it did tighten the string up and make the B better. 

[danbowskill]

Just put another P together with a roasted Jazz neck . Same woods as my others but for for some reason this resonates and punches fantastically well👌

Fenders "artic white" body... Yet it's like a cream colour 🤷.

Edited June 20 by danbowskill

[Lozz196]

Or as our drummer used to describe it Dan, cheesecake yellow.

[danbowskill]

5 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

Or as our drummer used to describe it Dan, cheesecake yellow.

Perfect description 😂

[jeffjohnson]

My favourite P bass

[Stub Mandrel]

On 19/06/2025 at 21:35, danbowskill said:

Just put another P together with a roasted Jazz neck . Same woods as my others but for for some reason this resonates and punches fantastically well👌

Fenders "artic white" body... Yet it's like a cream colour 🤷.

Looks more like Olympic White to me?

[Bassman1974]

11 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Looks more like Olympic White to me?

I'd agree there. It's the same shade as my Olympic Jazz. 

[EssentialTension]

Definitely looks like the creaminess of olympic white.

 

Arctic white is not creamy at all. It's more of a brilliant snowblind white.

[danbowskill]

20 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Looks more like Olympic White to me?

💯 God knows why it's labeled as "Artic white" I would have expected it to be brilliant white (glad it's not mind)

[eneade]

Here is my '94 Fender P :

 

[Beedster]

I say this with some trepidation (and yes I can hear all of the sniggering, calm down at the back please)

 

I think this may be a keeper................

 

 

I put it together from parts left unsold after a recent bitsa sell-off. Late 70's Daion body, Warmoth full-fat Precision neck, with maple cap/slab. A big surprise is the Squier CV PUP and circuit, which frankly sounds as decent as any I've owned (I am going to test some alternatives at some stage just in case they sound even better). Currently rehearsing a Pixies show, this is doing the job rather nicely 👍  

[Bassman1974]

7 minutes ago, Beedster said:

I say this with some trepidation (and yes I can hear all of the sniggering, calm down at the back please)

 

I think this may be a keeper................

 

 

I put it together from parts left unsold after a recent bitsa sell-off. Late 70's Daion body, Warmoth full-fat Precision neck, with maple cap/slab. A big surprise is the Squier CV PUP and circuit, which frankly sounds as decent as any I've owned (I am going to test some alternatives at some stage just in case they sound even better). Currently rehearsing a Pixies show, this is doing the job rather nicely 👍  

I changed out the CV pups and controls in an old Squier Jazz that I owned, but really didn't need to. It sounded perfectly lovely from factory. I'm now lead to believe that the CV's use Tonerider pickups, of which I use in my American Jazz. They're absolutely beautiful sounding. I like them so much that im fitting a set to my own Bitsa Precision 

[BTops]

22 minutes ago, Bassman1974 said:

I'm now lead to believe that the CV's use Tonerider pickups

Slightly misleading info here. Only the early cv, the pino version had tonerider pups, everything since have been fender designed.

[Bassman1974]

Mistaken, rather than misleading perhaps? We also don't know how old his hardware is 

Edited 2 hours ago by Bassman1974
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[Stub Mandrel]

The headline specs of the pups used in the 40th Anniversary P (and possibly the CVs?) lie in between the Fender Vintage 60 and Vintage 63. All Alnico 5 just very slightly different winds.

Interestingly, the VIntage 60 spec has slightly lower maximum resistance specced for the treble (fender call it 'lead') half of the pickup, although minimum resistance is the same.