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1952 Precision on ebay

#3
thats actually a decent example of a 52

if an instrument has been played and went through some owners with differnet perspectives over 57 years things get change

1,000 more dollars and it could be restored very nicely
 
#4
Non original finish is the biggest hit. Since the saddles would have been bakelite and would wear and break, its not a surprise to see them gone. I would slap the original bridge on and get some proper repro saddles and get a decent blonde finish on it...
 
#5
truly shameful :scowl:

i blame the pissant from green day for having a sig model with a 52 p body and a bad ass bridge and a split coil p pickup for a TON of p bass butchery as of late. im sure its not the case with a $10000 P though.

listen if you dont like the bridge or the pickups on a bass thats older than you than its not the right bass for you...theres a turning point age wise where you just leave it alone or take it as it comes.

you could put a ferrari motor in a 50 ford but itd still end up nothing but a damn shame
 
#6
your idol said:
truly shameful :scowl:

i blame the pissant from green day for having a sig model with a 52 p body and a bad ass bridge and a split coil p pickup for a TON of p bass butchery as of late. im sure its not the case with a $10000 P though.

listen if you dont like the bridge or the pickups on a bass thats older than you than its not the right bass for you...theres a turning point age wise where you just leave it alone or take it as it comes.

you could put a ferrari motor in a 50 ford but itd still end up nothing but a damn shame
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Read it a bit more carefully. The old bridge fell apart. Who knows...it looks like this is a player's bass...many players have modded their vintage basses to their own tastes before they were sacred objects to internet nerds.
 
#7
BurningSkies said:
Read it a bit more carefully. The old bridge fell apart. Who knows...it looks like this is a player's bass...many players have modded their vintage basses to their own tastes before they were sacred objects to internet nerds.
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+1. i respect someone doing something to make it a better instrument, regardless of what the vintage police think.

weather or not thats the case here, well, that i dont know.
 
#8
I'm not a vintage policeman, but drilling 2 or 5 extra holes in a '52 P to facilitate installing a bridge that won't give decent action isn't the brightest move. And whoever wired it couldn't handle one pickup and two pots.
 
#9
BurningSkies said:
Read it a bit more carefully. The old bridge fell apart. Who knows...it looks like this is a player's bass...many players have modded their vintage basses to their own tastes before they were sacred objects to internet nerds.
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thats exactly why i said I'm sure its not the case with this $10,000 p... i get it. i just hate seeing great old rigs done this way. and with a decent refin and a original bridge rebuilt with repro parts it would seem a lil more worth the bread.

im a firm believer in to each their own but i just dont dig this bass the way it is :smug:
 
#11
It's funny, but in the '70s, most everyone I knew would mod whatever they had if they thought their instrument would play better with those mods. Since collectors started dominating, we get the Patina Police, who demand everything remain original and if possible, pristine. A pristine bass that old would have been a closet queen, never being taken out. But...this one is a borderline case, as that wiring is disgraceful. Whoever did it shouldn't be let near another bass with a soldering iron. The owner not knowing what is wrong with the wiring doesn't give me confidence in him, either. I don't know how old the refinish is so I can't criticize there.
 
#12
I don't get what the fuss is about. Not a lot of '52 p's left in their original state. The only thing that bothers me is that the neck doesn't seems to have aged, at all, except for the decal. Neck finishes, at least on instruments that have been around the block a few times, are usually darker. Maybe the neck has been refinished at the same time as the body ?

Or maybe not.
 
#18
mndean said:
It's funny, but in the '70s, most everyone I knew would mod whatever they had if they thought their instrument would play better with those mods.
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'70s, '80s, '90s and even today. While I do like seeing pristine vintage instruments, I have no problem modifying my own current stock.

If the Vintage Police had a time machine I'm sure they'd have come back and killed me (and most of the people I used to play with) in the womb.
 
#19
rustynuts said:
'70s, '80s, '90s and even today. While I do like seeing pristine vintage instruments, I have no problem modifying my own current stock.

If the Vintage Police had a time machine I'm sure they'd have come back and killed me (and most of the people I used to play with) in the womb.
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If I had a time machine I'd have plenty of unmodified classic basses...not just a 52...Leo would know me by name for the numbers of orders I'd do...
 

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