NBD: beware the usual P bass thread

giacomini · #1 12-17-2012, 04:15 AM

OK, I got this MIJ Squier P a few months ago in a trade, but now she's back from some minor surgery and plays like any Fender.

Got the neck refinished (it was bad for a japanese Squier), Fender pup, CTS pots, new jack, shiny new chrome covers and a new bone nut.

thedudebrah · #2 12-17-2012, 04:41 AM

What is that color? I love it!

giacomini · #3 12-17-2012, 04:44 AM

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Originally Posted by thedudebrah

What is that color? I love it!

I don't know... it looks greener in person and it is a bit more blue under the pickguard, so I'd say it is some sort of daphne/sonic blue that aged to this color (bass is almost 20 yo)

kakao · #4 12-17-2012, 10:29 AM

Love the color and also the dark rosewood! Did you lemon oil the fretboard to make it darker?

**ExaltBass** · #5 12-17-2012, 10:35 AM

Sherwood Green... here's mine... looks like the same color to me.

ntenny · #6 12-17-2012, 10:46 AM

That's a really sharp-looking bass. I'm not usually a fan of pickup covers, but it just looks *right* on this instrument, doesn't it?

-NT

giacomini · #7 12-17-2012, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by kakao

Love the color and also the dark rosewood! Did you lemon oil the fretboard to make it darker?

Actually my luthier thinks that this bass got a new fretboard years ago, because it is darker than rosewood and the grain looks different, pretty much like a local wood from down here, imbuia.

giacomini · #8 12-17-2012, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ntenny

That's a really sharp-looking bass. I'm not usually a fan of pickup covers, but it just looks *right* on this instrument, doesn't it?

-NT

Yes, I think the covers look great on this bass!

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Originally Posted by ExaltBass

Sherwood Green... here's mine... looks like the same color to me.

Hmm, then I guess it is sherwood green then! It really looks like your bass, my pictures are a little bit bluer than it should.

Your P looks great! I really like MOP pickguards!

bassbully · #9 12-17-2012, 07:38 PM

What year is that? Late 80's?

giacomini · #10 12-17-2012, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by bassbully

What year is that? Late 80's?

According to the Fender site, this one (serial number "O013981") was made between 1993 and 1994.

bolophonic · #11 12-17-2012, 08:55 PM

Sweet bass.

giacomini · #12 12-18-2012, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by bolophonic

Sweet bass.

Thanks!

BuffaloBass · #13 12-18-2012, 08:13 PM

And nice photography too; I wanted to 'touch' it bad!

fish552 · #14 12-18-2012, 08:15 PM

Score! Great looking bass-hope she serves you well!

Jeff K · #15 12-18-2012, 10:03 PM

Unless my monitor is WAY off, neither of those basses are Sherwood Green. Nice colors, to be sure, but Sherwood Green is a deep, almost candy apple green.

Edit: Here's an old color chart. Sherwood Green is top right.

giacomini · #16 12-19-2012, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeff K

Unless my monitor is WAY off, neither of those basses are Sherwood Green. Nice colors, to be sure, but Sherwood Green is a deep, almost candy apple green.

Edit: Here's an old color chart. Sherwood Green is top right.

Based on this color chart it looks more like foam green (second in the right, top to bottom).

Don't know how accurate were the Squier colors compared to Fender back in the 90's in Japan.