JamesBass Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Looking to upgrade and customise my cheapy Squire P Bass. It's an affinity series and I fancy giving it a bit of a face lift, thinking of doing a refinish from metallic blue to a surf green colour maybe, replacing the current neck with a maple fretboard as currently it's rosewood, thinking block inlays like the 75 Jazz. Any idea of how to get hold of a neck? Then I reckon I might change out the current pick ups, thinking either some SD's or maybe some Fender ones, this will be my number 2 bass as I'm in the process of saving for a Rickenbacker and am very close to having the full funds! This is gonna be a long project might take me up to a year just take it nice and slow I'm thinking. Advice and thoughts most welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom in Dorset Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I tried an affinity precision once and the only thing I didn't like about it was the pickups. The tone was muddy and not at all a classic P bass sound. I have a bass with a £15 budget P pickup in it and it sounds far better than the affinity that I tried. Spend your money on good pickups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTaff Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I used the neck off a Squier VM Jazz on previous bass, finding a neck proved to be a bit difficult, in the end I bought a used VM Jazz for £150 and parted it out on ebay, I think the neck ended up costing about £50. There's a cheap VM Jazz in the classifieds that would be perfect for a neck swap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charic Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 If you want a p neck you could see if someone can make you one (shuker or warmoth etc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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