Any suggestions for "reconstructing" a Fender P-bass 74 bass from the body?

[Dogame]

Hi everyone, I've recently won a 74 P-bass body on Ebay and I was wondering what kind of materials I could use to "reconstruct" the bass, not with vintage parts but modern ones, through two points of view:

1.Good materials, less than $700 for everything (not counting the body)
or...
2. Average materials, but much cheaper, perhaps $300-400 (not counting the body)






At the moment I've got a Guitarfetish vintage-type bridge and my guess is that could work okay, but I was wondering especially about the neck, tuners and pickup (for that one I've thought of SD Basslines SPB-1 vintage voiced model). Anyone for tennis? Could you give me suggestions from any (or both) ways of "reconstructing" the bass and play it for real? Thank you

[RMay]

A few suggestions
1.) Allparts neck, Hipshot Ultra lite tuners, Badass II bridge, Lollar pickups.
2.) Mighty Mite neck, MIM Fender tuners, Gotoh 201 bridge, SD SPB-1 pickups.

^ These seem to be the popular choice of hardware.

As for bridges, I prefer the regular Fender bridge.

[RPIcka]

USACG neck.
Nordstrand pickup.
Hipshot tuners.

[Pilgrim]

Personally, I'd surf Ebay for parts that would work - pickups, PG, neck, etc...and put it together as opportunity allows. The only "74" part of it is the body and you won't have a '74 when you're done anyway.

[202dy]

Originally Posted by Pilgrim

Personally, I'd surf Ebay for parts that would work - pickups, PG, neck, etc...and put it together as opportunity allows. The only "74" part of it is the body and you won't have a '74 when you're done anyway.

Partial agreement here. Continue the search for a '74 neck. Substitute other parts as need be. At that point you have a modded '74. Pretty cool thing to have.

[Dogame]

Originally Posted by Pilgrim

Personally, I'd surf Ebay for parts that would work - pickups, PG, neck, etc...and put it together as opportunity allows. The only "74" part of it is the body and you won't have a '74 when you're done anyway.

Yeah, I agree with you in some ways of "true vintage" concept, but the problem is that they charge you a lot for an original neck, original pickup and so on, so in the end that could be very expensive and not ultimately effective (considering that usually pickups doesn't sound like they originally did because of rust which affects them, also the same problem for tuners and bridge, and usually necks have a lot of wear on frets) and looking to assemble a player with the sound and feel of '70s P-bass, not a collector's piece...
Anyway, thanks for the comments and I listen to everyone's word on this

[depalm]

1- warmoth neck, hipshot vintage bridge, ultralites tuners
and overall hardware, nordstrand np4 pickup, tortoise pg.

2- usacg neck, regular fender bridge, shaller tuners and other hardware,
seymour duncan spb1 pu.

[depalm]

Really nice ash body by the way! Congrats!

[Dogame]

Thank you. I've received it today and looks even better, like a 3D drawing or something in some parts. Very strange indeed
About the 74 original parts: I've read that bad job was done on necks and stuff at that time, and prices are higher than any warmoth or other brands' necks, so I'll probably select an allparts or warmoth neck (the other brands don't appeal to me).
And about the pickup: I'm looking for something that could sound like a brand new P-bass in 1974 bought from the store. Some posts said that Seymour Duncan were good pickups, but you also point out Nordstrand and Lollar... are these ones perhaps more modern-sounding or just better repros?

[ehque]

Do look at Status Graphite for your neck as well. Should run you 400+ bucks, which leaves a little bit left over for your pickups and tuners.