arthurhenry Posted June 26, 2016 Posted June 26, 2016 [quote name='Grahambythesea' timestamp='1464346402' post='3058640'] The slab body with a humbucker has always struck me as odd. The pickup seems to me to be a copy of the monster Gibson bass humbucker as on the EB2/Rivoli and the EB0/3. They were muddy and boomy too. The slab body must be uncomfortable for long gigs, which is why Leo came up with contouring . If you want to hear a tele bass played well and imaginatively listen to Rick Kemp in Steeleye Span. He used one for years in the late 70s/80s mainly played with a pick, although latterly he did add 2 standard Precision pick ups which looked kind of strange and resulted in an awful lot of knobs. [/quote] The pickup was designed by Seth Lover, who did the Gibson Humbuckers. As I explained in post above they are NOT muddy. I have never found the slab body uncomfortable; in fact I now find it uncomfortable playing contoured bodies, due to the lack of support to my forearm. Quote
Immo Posted June 26, 2016 Posted June 26, 2016 [quote name='tredders' timestamp='1466889331' post='3079622'] (...) the black one had a lipstick pup. Both were originally sunburst, but I had them refinished when work was done and routing filled. [/quote] I'd leave the lipstick, it goes visually perfect with the bass; probably would add nice tones, too. Painting it black was a good idea, though. Pretty. [quote name='tredders' timestamp='1466889331' post='3079622'] Whilst they're not the most versatile basses on earth, I do think that they're sometimes wrongly branded as one-dimensional. Yes, they do the whole bass-you-can-feel-in-your-chest thing well, but there are some tonal variations lurking in there. [/quote] As I said, tone dial and fingers/pick position makes a HUGE difference, in my opinion, much bigger than in your typical bass guitar. Quote
basstone Posted March 14, 2023 Posted March 14, 2023 My very first bass was a medium scale cream Columbus tele bass and I've had a soft spot for them ever since. Here are my current Tele basses. An original '69, which I love as it has the DNA of the very first P bas in it's design and has a great woody growl from the single coil pickup. The Japanese Paisley blue bass was my workhorse for many years tuned down a tone to D and used in a blues quartet, finished with the matching blue strings it attracted many comments! 4 Quote
yorks5stringer Posted March 14, 2023 Posted March 14, 2023 Nice old thread revival! I had a Japanese Blue Flower at one point too (in addition to my current one below) but without the covers. 4 Quote
StickyDBRmf Posted March 15, 2023 Posted March 15, 2023 On 14/03/2023 at 04:51, yorks5stringer said: Nice old thread revival! I had a Japanese Blue Flower at one point too (in addition to my current one below) but without the covers. Wow. I've never seen a Fender Bass with the Invisible finish. 1 2 Quote
yorks5stringer Posted March 15, 2023 Posted March 15, 2023 27 minutes ago, StickyDBRmf said: Wow. I've never seen a Fender Bass with the Invisible finish. There's a bit of a story to that. I bought it with 2 humbuckers installed (and a load of other player mods that were non- standard) as you can see below. I returned it to stock but as it had had a big hole routed out in front of the bridge for the pickup, it was filled with wood, and primed. I then did a light couple of coats of aged vintage white nitro which was a bit more yellow than the original white ( which was also nitro so must have been a respray too.) 1 Quote
yorks5stringer Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 10 hours ago, StickyDBRmf said: Alas. No one gets my jokes. I did wonder but thought I'd play a straight bat as did not want to cause a rift in UK/USA relations.... 1 Quote
Guest Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 I used a crowbar and a mallet to precision engineer a dirty great mudbucker into my Squier 50's CV transition P bass. It's not everyone's cup,of dried leaves in boiling water, but I find the result highly pleasant. Quote
dafonky Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago Did Fender offer a replacement single coil pickup during the 70‘ies for these 68-72 first series Telecaster basses with the single coil pickups ? I have seen one which has a date stamp 11876 , which seems to be 1976 if i am not wrong and i was told by the owner that it is a rare item and that in these years Fender offered them as replacement if the original pickup was broken….? In 1976 , Tele basses already had a mudbucker pickup…..perhaps they used the bottom plate of a guitar pickup to rebuilt a 1. version Telecaster pickup for a customer ? 👻🤗 it‘s Fender 🥹 Quote
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