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05-25-2011, 01:21 PM
|  | used to play 5's, then I took an arrow in the knee | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | | 1973-4 "Player" Precision Bass BAII Straplocks $900
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Well, I've been holding off on putting this up for awhile since I'll inevitably be barraged by questions. Juan Alderete almost pulled the trigger on this one when I had it on craigslist but he was turned off by it's main feature, someone carved a meteor-like figure out of the wood with "JD" in initials. Aside from that the neck has tons of finish missing but plays easily.
Here's the composition:
73 Neck
73-74 Body, thumb rest and not pull bar
73 plate
tuners and string tree from a '71 Precision
Dunlop Straplocks
Old/Mod'd bridge
Modern USA P pickup
Modern USA P pickguard
Newer pots and knobs
New frets with level and setup within the past year
New nut, also wood is missing from behind the nut, I've had this for 3 years or so I think, no problems with that.
Body de-finished, the wood is quite nice looking
I've used this bass on tons of gigs and never had an issue, everything adjusts fine and the action is easily playable, it could go lower but you'd have to take off the BAII. All the frets play with no buzz, tried to capture that in the vid.
I'll include a nicely padded gigbag to make sure it arrives safely.
$850 w/o BAII
NO TRADES
I shot a couple vids first, I'll put up some pics later. This is going through a GK MB Fusion and an Epifani UL-212 Series One. 73-4 P 003 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! 73-4 P 002 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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05-25-2011, 01:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Iowa | | | Whoa - that's crazy. And cool. Anxious to see some photos.
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05-25-2011, 01:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: madison, wi | | | cool! what does it weigh? i prefer "player" basses. |
05-25-2011, 02:48 PM
| | used to play 5's, then I took an arrow in the knee | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | |
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05-26-2011, 08:44 AM
|  | Pop Fiction Bassist/Arc Baltimore Operations Mgr. | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Baltimore, MD | | | I do dig this bass... but if I got it I'd NEED to take a belt sander... or dremel... or something to get rid of that carving... too much work for me as I am not carpenter.
G'luck with the sale!!!
DELMARVA!!!!!!
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05-26-2011, 11:27 AM
| | used to play 5's, then I took an arrow in the knee | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | | I've thought about taking my Dremel to it but it never really bothered me enough for playing bar gigs to mess with it.
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05-26-2011, 11:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | Too bad about the carving. What gets into people's heads to make them deface a nice instrument like that?
Reminds me of what kids used to do to school desks when they were bored, back in the day. |
05-26-2011, 04:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Richmond, Va | | | I've already got one of your basses. The 77 jazz is doing quite amazing! Tempted but calming myself. Good luck with the sell Dave!
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05-26-2011, 05:23 PM
| | used to play 5's, then I took an arrow in the knee | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | | Hey John, was just thinking about you yesterday man, hadn't gotten back to you from that email a month ago. Killer playing on the track and wish I could hear the bass on the video but it looked like a hell of a show. |
05-26-2011, 06:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Richmond, Va | | | Very cool man! Thought of you too the other day after listening to some seven mary three. "The Pollocks" connection. Thanks for checking it all out! Hit me up sometime. Would love to catch up.
Bump for a great guy with very cool basses! If I had the money i would prob be on this.
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05-31-2011, 02:44 PM
| | used to play 5's, then I took an arrow in the knee | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | | Thinking about replacing the BAII with a Fender vintage late 60's that someone replaced the bridge saddle screws on |
06-07-2011, 08:20 PM
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El Presidente of Sanford and Sonny Audio Weapons (Bluebeard Fuzz) | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Maryland | | | I think I've seen this bass pass thru Atomic Music before about 9 years ago.
Did it have dayglo paint on it in patches when you got it?
I personally love player basses function before fashion.
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06-08-2011, 09:15 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Vancouver | | Quote:
Originally Posted by sanfordandsonny  I personally love player basses function before fashion. | A big +1 on that. Sounds great, has that really big, throaty growl.
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06-16-2011, 07:28 AM
| | used to play 5's, then I took an arrow in the knee | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | | Has the weird modified vintage bridge on it now and lower action too, need to take a pic...it's one of those 60's saddles bridges but has allen adjusters (close to stripped so might as well get some old flatheads)
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06-27-2011, 05:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: New Haven | | | I kind of like it.
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06-27-2011, 07:44 PM
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El Presidente of Sanford and Sonny Audio Weapons (Bluebeard Fuzz) | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Maryland | | | Bump
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06-30-2011, 04:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: VIRGINIA | | | Hey man, how deep do you think that engraving is? |
06-30-2011, 04:26 PM
| | used to play 5's, then I took an arrow in the knee | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | | Just measured, looks like a little less than 1/4" |
07-03-2011, 11:14 AM
| | used to play 5's, then I took an arrow in the knee | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | Current bridge:  |
07-03-2011, 11:17 AM
| | used to play 5's, then I took an arrow in the knee | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by sanfordandsonny I think I've seen this bass pass thru Atomic Music before about 9 years ago.
Did it have dayglo paint on it in patches when you got it?
I personally love player basses function before fashion. | Probably not, it came from the West Coast. The previous owner didn't realize it had a carving at all until he stripped multiple layers of paint off of it(!) | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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