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Custom Vintage P style bass
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Custom Vintage P style bass
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- Guitar Solo Shop2020-07-10 09:46:19
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Product Description
It took me about six months of searching to nail this bass. The parts are all top-notch, with many genuine parts from everyone's favorite guitar manufacturer: string guide; strap buttons; control plate; reverse tuners; pickup and bridge covers; pickguard; large back string ferrules (not the small ones that are used on Asian '51 P reissues); slotted screws; bridge/saddles/screws; dome knobs; and flatwound strings (2050M).
The pickup is a gorgeous sounding, silent Lindy Fralin single coil, stock 6.5K wind with white rope wrap.
The body is an awesome butterscotch nitro relic by MJT. It has beautiful checking and looks like a 60-year-old instrument should. This does not look like somebody dragged it down the road.
The Allparts neck is maple with black dots, 20 frets, a very light and smooth nitro finish, with a square end and smaller (pre 1957) headstock -- all correct for a '54-'55 P.
I obtained the one-hole, period-correct thumbrest from Detlef Schmidt -- the author of two books, "Fender Precision Basses: 1951-1954" and "Keith Ferguson: Texas Blues Bass" (which I helped edit and design).
The Callaham neck plate is .075 thick, as opposed to stock .060, with stainless steel screws. This neck/body joint is incredibly SOLID!
The vintage milled (not stamped) jack cup was obtained through Steve Olson, Elderly Instruments' badass repairman who put this whole thing together perfectly.
The cap is a reproduction of the original ZNW1P, .1MFD, 150 V DC paper wax capacitor compatible with basses from 1951-52. The wiring is cloth, and the jack is a Switchcraft ¼". The two potentiometers are CTS 450G solid shaft, 250K.
The gig bag is a Gator.
I've gigged steadily with this bass for the past five years. Nearly every time I play it, somebody asks about it and wants to know if it's a real vintage P (which go for about $15,000). There is black foam on the underside of the bridge cover -- just like the originals -- if you want to turn it 180 degrees and always have the strings muted for that old school thump.
I basically quit playing out live last April. I'll probably kick myself down the road for selling this, but that's OK -- I've been through countless instruments in my 57 years. This one, however, is very special to me, and I know whoever winds up with it is going to be ecstatic. The tone, look, feel, playability and vibe are spot on.
The video is of me playing it through an Ampeg B100R. As with most YouTube videos, put on some headphones to hear the bass.
Product Specs
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Condition:Excellent
Make:No name
Model:P style
Finish:Butterscotch
Categories:4-String
Year:2016
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