Fender Bronco Bass (Squier) Replacement Pup?

[rllefebv]

Price?? Hmmm... I was thinking free... Shoot me your mailing address and I can get it sent off on Monday...

-robert

[natasmi]

There are some nice people here, I feel good.

[natasmi]

Bronco update, drilled one little hole to install thumbrest, I make thumbrests out of plastics and wood, why?... because there's no way I'll pay 5 bucks for such a easy item to produce. I have a pile of wood ones I made, stained dark mahogany, if you need one Jim T I'll mail you one as part of your project. Anyway I wanted to put my new favorite in a gig bag, no luck. It's an inch too long for a guitar gigbag, and too short for a bass gigbag. I had a hardshell case that none of my long scales fit into, Dano DC was too wide, cheap P-bass copy was an inch too long. So I cut a piece off foam too fit the bronco's butt, wrapped it in fake fur, could'nt find the right color so dark blue will have to do. Glued it in and here are the results, fits like a glove, I love this thing! I got the pickups at just the right height, It's all I have been playing, fun and functional.

[seanm]

I have the reissue MusicMaster and I find it very neck heavy. How is the Bronco? I notice the headstock is smaller and it looks like the tuners are smaller too.

[Jim T.]

seanm,
The Bronco is MUCH better balanced. The agathis body may be heavier than the alder/poplar? that the Mustangs and Musicmasters were made out of. There's a small amount of neck dive if you don't get your strap or sitting leg adjusted right, but you have quite a bit of flexibility ergonomically.

One of the reasons I never was interested in the Musicmaster was the immense neck dive. l imagine it's very tiring to play.

If the Bronco was made out of nice wood and had a much better pickup, it would be a fantastically fun axe to play IMHO.

natasmi, I'd love to have a thumbrest if you wouldn't mind sending one! Thanks. I almost always use a floating thumb technique so I wouldn't use it that much, but sometimes at a gig or jam it's nice to have one. PM me for a mailing address.

I'm going to put a better pickup in this sometime in the near future. I'm going ahead and ordering a six string short scale bass from a luthier and we're going to experiment together (by email!) I'm convinced judging by my detuned E to low B on this "hunka junk" that it could work for me. I'm a little more tolerant of a bit of floppy than most. Probably because I use light gauge strings anyway. I'd get a custom wound THICK 30" low B custom made.

[tuBass]

I replaced the pickup with a dimarzio willpower and added a bridge pickup.

Check this thread, but most of the pictures have been wiped out.

Project completed!!!

[skulldemon]

I put a GFS Lil Killer Modern 10K H27 pickup in my Squire Bronco bass along with a new Switchcraft jack and Dimarzio push/pull 500K volume pot to switch from single coil to humbucker mode. Bass kicks ass. I threw a set of 3135 GHS Roundwound Short Scale Bass Boomers strings on there too. Lots of attack. Black/White/Black custom pick guard from WD Music.

http://www.guitarfetish.com/Lil-Kill...ble_p_463.html

[FedericoC.uy]

I just get a used Bronco and as all of you I`m looking for a replacement PUP
Has anyone tried a DiMarzio Split P DP127?