lee650 Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 (edited) Bit late with this one, as ive been doing a little light cosmetic Modding. I recently bought this Black 83 SQ Squire Precision from the always fantastic ead. I've owned a white JV jazz for the last 30 years and always wanted a Precision counterpart, but they've gone fairly expensive. These were made at the same time as the JV's but at a lower price point as they weren't vintage reissues, but a standard style P bass for the time (pretty much a 70s style). The quality is on par with my JV it's fairly light for a 40 year old MIJ, it came with a fairly chunky fender style bridge, which looked very shiny compared to the nice mojod tuners. I had a Gotoh Reliced vintage Bridge which I fitted as well as some reliced Barrel knobs. I've also replaced the original black pickguard with what I believe is a Bass Doc burgundy Tort(sourced by our own Walshy), which has been nicely reliced so in keeping with the bass (NOTE- despite being an MIJ bass, I have fitted two USA spec pickguards, so it is a true 70s spec) The neck was also lightly sanded, it felt so nice, I took the neck off my JV jazz and lightly sanded it with wire wool (0000) abdcits lovely and matt now. It had also been upgraded with a CTS Kiagon loom and a fender original 62 pickup, it sounds very warm and smooth, I'm very smitten with this bass😍 it came with some lovely TI flats, which as much as I love I find flats don't cut through live (for me anyway) so I've put a set of fairly new DR Pure Blues, which actually have a very warm abd smooth midrange and sound very nice when worn in. Such a great bass and such high quality for a supposed "budget" instrument, I think they just used much nicer woods I those days. Edited June 15, 2023 by lee650 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 Very nice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 All the basses you’ll ever need right there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee650 Posted June 15, 2023 Author Share Posted June 15, 2023 3 hours ago, Rayman said: All the basses you’ll ever need right there. Absolutely, but ive a couple of Spectors too (Euro 4 and 5) but if the need ever arose, I could happily gig the two squires. Mind you I now have Gas for a 90s Stingray 5 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Don’t we all! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloke_zero Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 Lovely looking bass! For me this is the nicest p-bass combo. On 14/06/2023 at 22:20, lee650 said: I think they just used much nicer woods I those days Probably true! And at the risk of starting a wood flame war (see what I did there?!) I wonder if the age of the wood is a factor? We know that as the wood ages it dries out becomes stiffer and vibrates differently: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1296207412000404 With these 80's basses they have had 40 odd years to dry and age. Anyway! Congratulations on the bass - looks stellar! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 A couple of really sweet looking basses there @lee650 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 On 15/06/2023 at 08:37, Rayman said: All the basses you’ll ever need right there. "..you’ll ever need right there...." Who are you?? His wife?? Leave him alone - @lee650, you go and buy anything you want. It's your money, you work hard for it - don't be worried about buying more gear. "..you’ll ever need right there..." Perlease!! 😉😉 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Browning Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 On 15/06/2023 at 08:37, Rayman said: All the basses you’ll ever need right there. Surely you mean "all the basses you'll ever need - and a Jazz bass" 🙂 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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