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01-13-2013, 01:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chicago, IL | |  My '89 MIJ is back to attack!!!
Yes! So fired up!
Haven't used it in like 10 yrs...
Took it to my guy in Chicago - Carl Pedigo...the master...
Put in the Stellartone Tonestyler tone pot...like it so far...we shall see on the gigs...
Turns out I had Lindy Fralins in it! I forgot about that!
all new wiring as well
New bone nut
Routed out access to the truss rod as well, now can be adjusted on the fly!
complete set up...new padding under the pickups
Sounds killer! My Lakland 55-01 is on hiatus...
wanna play all day now! 
Here she is in the operating table! 
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01-13-2013, 01:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Madison, WI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lolmont  How much she cost?  | $995
Obviously with all the "Case Candy" etc. as well.
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01-13-2013, 02:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Petaluma, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Silver Blues 
What kind of strings are those?
--Silvie | Fender 55-105 9050M Flatwound 
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01-13-2013, 10:40 PM
|  | Conform or Be Cast Out.... | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Central Ohio | | Quote:
Originally Posted by sigmafloyd What kind of strings are you guys running on your P basses these days? I have a random set of Boomers for a change. Was on a D'Addario XLs for the previous 3 months. Ive been trying out various rounds after a year or so on flats | Mainly Ernie Ball Super Slinky Roundwound 105/85/65/45
Sometimes I use the Rotosound 66 Rounds in the same guage
recently just tried the DR Hi-Beams and they were ok, but I think I am going back to the EB's
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01-14-2013, 12:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Central Coast NSW Australia | | | I've went back to using Rotosound Swing bass about 5 years ago. Never been happier and people often ask what the strings are, as they sound so good.
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01-14-2013, 12:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Finland | | | I just realized I have no idea what the strings are on my 1974 P. The flats came on the bass when I got it a couple of years ago. I took them off and boiled the crud out with some alcohol in the water, and they feel and sound fine. That's all I care about! They may have the secret "Jamerson Factor" - or maybe I boiled that out with all the crud, IDK...
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01-14-2013, 12:46 AM
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01-14-2013, 06:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Varied places around the world | | Quote:
Originally Posted by sigmafloyd What kind of strings are you guys running on your P basses these days? I have a random set of Boomers for a change. Was on a D'Addario XLs for the previous 3 months. Ive been trying out various rounds after a year or so on flats | Rotosound 66 Steels. Either the Billy Sheehan or LD sets. I also use GHS Boomers from time to time
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01-14-2013, 10:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Saint Clair, MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by sigmafloyd What kind of strings are you guys running on your P basses these days? I have a random set of Boomers for a change. Was on a D'Addario XLs for the previous 3 months. Ive been trying out various rounds after a year or so on flats | LaBella Deep Talkin' flats are on mine.
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01-14-2013, 10:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Frederick, Maryland | | So... for the past 10 or so years, it's been a never-ending ebb and flow of "buy gear, sell gear, buy gear, sell gear..." and so on and so forth.
I have owned a few P basses over the years. My first bass was a Harmony P copy. Unfortunately, i didn't appreciate what i had when i was 15 and it was traded away in '02. Since then, i've probably had close to 50 different basses in and out of my possession.
Exactly one year ago, i decided to buy myself something nice for my birthday. So, i went to Ebay and found two awesome pieces... a MiJ Fender P body and a MiM Fender P maple neck.
I put the two pieces together... strung it up with some Chrome flats... and something amazing happened. The GAS stopped! For the first time in over a decade, i went a full year without buying a new (new-used) bass guitar!
My Fender P does everything i need it to... 2 original bands and the occasional musical theater gig. It's awesome! My Fender P has changed my life, and pocket book, forever!
Rehersing for a theater gig: 
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01-14-2013, 12:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Central Florida | | | GHS Precision Flats. I've had them on for a while now and I love them.
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01-14-2013, 01:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Hudson Valley, NY | | | When I am using a Precision, I use TI Jazz flats. It's like those strings were made for Precisions.
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01-14-2013, 05:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South Milwaukee , Wisconsin | | Quote:
Originally Posted by joconnorwi Yes! So fired up!
Haven't used it in like 10 yrs...
Took it to my guy in Chicago - Carl Pedigo...the master...
Put in the Stellartone Tonestyler tone pot...like it so far...we shall see on the gigs...
Turns out I had Lindy Fralins in it! I forgot about that!
all new wiring as well
New bone nut
Routed out access to the truss rod as well, now can be adjusted on the fly!
complete set up...new padding under the pickups
Sounds killer! My Lakland 55-01 is on hiatus...
wanna play all day now!
Here she is in the operating table! | Carl is THE MAN!!!!!!!
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01-16-2013, 03:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | Just came in today my second P bass and my first american.  |
01-16-2013, 03:28 PM
|  | Don't want no treble. | | Join Date: May 2012 Location: Long Beach CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lolmont Just came in today my second P bass and my first american. | Beauty! And an utterly screaming deal too per your earlier post. Is this a 2012?
Congrats. Enjoy that wonderful instrument!! 
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01-16-2013, 03:31 PM
|  | Say something once, why say it again? | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Saint Johns, Michigan | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ShowLow Beauty! And an utterly screaming deal too per your earlier post. Is this a 2012?
Congrats. Enjoy that wonderful instrument!! | Totally beat me to it, but that's everything I was going to say. Seriously, congrats on a screaming deal and a great bass. |
01-16-2013, 03:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ShowLow Beauty! And an utterly screaming deal too per your earlier post. Is this a 2012?
Congrats. Enjoy that wonderful instrument!! | Yeah it's a 2012 sounds amazing. Also thanks diver |
01-16-2013, 03:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Orange County California | | Here's a photo of me in the studio with my super hot American P. 
I've owned a bunch of other basses and ended up selling most all of them, but I just can't seem to let this bass go. It's my soul mate bass, if such a thing exists.
joe
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01-16-2013, 04:38 PM
|  | So many basses, so little time | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alta Loma, CA | | | We all aspire to find soul mate basses, and when we do, we keep them a good long time.
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01-17-2013, 12:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Finland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Holdsg We all aspire to find soul mate basses, and when we do, we keep them a good long time. | I am taking mine to practice today, the 1974 with flats on. Should be good. I just finally decided I will take the dare and expose it to the rigors of the rehearsal space.
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