NBD: A collection of P-bass parts.

[MrFingers]

A while back, I found a hodgepodge with a Fender Roger Waters Precision Bass neck ‘deep in Wallonia’ for a véry good price, and I was already toying with the idea of adding a second P for a while. After some very intense searching, I stumbled on a dusty Italian webshop, where I found an Allparts PBF-CAR body (a colour that has been out of the range for a while). Then I started gathering some parts left & right, with the aim of creating a '64-'66 hybrid without breaking the back.

 

A day with an assortment of screwdrivers, measuring devices and a soldering iron later, this is what came out. It's quite a fierce one. Where my white one with flatwounds sounds very warm and fat, this one sounds diametrically opposite: angry, fierce, raunchy and punchy. I'm happy with it... although I'm still itching for a neck with a veneer rosewood fingerboard, and that neck on a Slab66 body. With flatwounds on this one, and rounds on the '66.

 

- Neck: Fender Roger Waters (44.5mm nut width, maple cap, vintage frets)
- Tuners: Gotoh FB-30-LP (the full-size tuners with the large mounting plate)
- Body: Allparts PBF-CAR (Alder. CAR with a silver-coloured undercoat)
- Pickguard: Fender '62RI (stark white, not mint green)
- Pickup: Fender Vintera II '60 (I was very surprised at how good those Vintera '60 P-basses sounded. The intention is to bake in a greybobbin in the future, but this pickup is also extremely good, much better than the Vintera '50)
- Covers: Fender ‘Pure Vintage’ (I wouldn't be me if I didn't install measures to restrict playing freedom on my instrument, I just removed them for the photo-opp)
- Bridge: Fender ‘Pure Vintage’

- Wiring: Homemade with CTS, clothwire, Orangedrop,...

 

 

[Beedster]

That's a very high quality bass 👍