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NBD: Bruce Foxton inspired black and maple Precision parts build


rze99
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I was a big fan of the Jam back in the day and appreciated the kick and rhythmic foundation Bruce Foxton brought to the band.

I've been building guitar partscasters - Tels and Strats - for a few years and this is my first bass and I wanted a black and maple precision. 

All pre-used parts this cost less than £500.  2018 Fender Player Precision neck, 2016 MIM Precision body, USA pickguard, ebonised tru-oiled rosewood thumb rest, Seymour Duncan SPB-1 pickup with CTS pots and Bare Knuckle .22uF paper in oil cap. Gotoh 201B-4 bridge.  It's got plenty of thunk and clang on tap. 

The Rotosound Swing Bass set are in the post, but the D'Addarios on there currently sound very good.

Looks great with my early nineties Rickenbacker 330 in Fireglo (final pic).

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2 minutes ago, hooky_lowdown said:

Looks sweet, but why did you use a guitar capacitor and not a bass one?

Guitar: 0.022 will cut lows and allow more highs.

Bass: 0.047 will allow more lows and cut some highs.

The pickup pots and loom all came together used so I just used the lot to see what it would be like. Sounds great to me as it is - it seems to have oodles of low end.

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2 hours ago, hooky_lowdown said:

Looks sweet, but why did you use a guitar capacitor and not a bass one?

Guitar: 0.022 will cut lows and allow more highs.

Bass: 0.047 will allow more lows and cut some highs.

Unless you specifically wire it as a series cap for bass cut both values will allow the same lows through and just change the cutoff frequency of the low pass. 

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14 hours ago, borntohang said:

Unless you specifically wire it as a series cap for bass cut both values will allow the same lows through and just change the cutoff frequency of the low pass. 

Did you see a series/parallel switch? So I'm guessing it's in series, therefore the caps I mentioned do impact the lows and highs.

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3 hours ago, hooky_lowdown said:

Did you see a series/parallel switch? So I'm guessing it's in series, therefore the caps I mentioned do impact the lows and highs.

How? Unless the pot has specifically been wired in series as a bass cut (like a vintage Rickenbacker circuit) it will just be a standard Fender low-pass tone control which would not affect the lows regardless of cap value. I'm assuming OP would have mentioned an unusual circuit like that. 

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2 minutes ago, borntohang said:

How? Unless the pot has specifically been wired in series as a bass cut (like a vintage Rickenbacker circuit) it will just be a standard Fender low-pass tone control which would not affect the lows regardless of cap value. I'm assuming OP would have mentioned an unusual circuit like that. 

My bad, I meant in parallel. 

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