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Coolest looking P-Bass?

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This one

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Wow. What are the neck and fingerboard woods? Is that a rosewood board on a rosewood neck, or something else? Can you note any clear differences in tone/response between it and your standard maple/rosewood neck/board? I know that tone depends on the individual pieces of wood as much as or more than the species and that there are other factors involved, but this is out of the ordinary and I'd love to hear your impressions!

Double E said:
Some sweet P Basses here. I recently set up in the P camp with this beauty:






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MarkA said:
Wow. What are the neck and fingerboard woods? Is that a rosewood board on a rosewood neck, or something else? Can you note any clear differences in tone/response between it and your standard maple/rosewood neck/board? I know that tone depends on the individual pieces of wood as much as or more than the species and that there are other factors involved, but this is out of the ordinary and I'd love to hear your impressions!
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It looks like wenge to me for both the neck and fingerboard.
 
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Double E said:
Some sweet P Basses here. I recently set up in the P camp with this beauty:


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Nice example of nuanced focus of all participating design elements. (as in, poles on pu's echoing dots on fingerboard, black hardware, thick black halo w/rich warm glowing wood center and a metal pg for contrast. A very strong visual balance resulting in attractive product.

If Fender could only get it's head out of their retro-rehash hole and actually start being creative w/their basic designs...
 
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LFG247 said:
Maybe I'm biased...ok..yeah I am, but this is my newest addition. Fits my personality, so it's the look I dig most.
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Still deciding on the cover..
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Ooh, I'm a sucker for white blonde finish Fenders...is this a master built?

For me, if only considering looks, definitely keep the covers on, looks so much cooler, but then my playing hasn't been hampered by them, yours might be a different story.
 
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MarkA said:
Wow. What are the neck and fingerboard woods? Is that a rosewood board on a rosewood neck, or something else? Can you note any clear differences in tone/response between it and your standard maple/rosewood neck/board? I know that tone depends on the individual pieces of wood as much as or more than the species and that there are other factors involved, but this is out of the ordinary and I'd love to hear your impressions!
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JIO said:
Nice example of nuanced focus of all participating design elements. (as in, poles on pu's echoing dots on fingerboard, black hardware, thick black halo w/rich warm glowing wood center and a metal pg for contrast. A very strong visual balance resulting in attractive product.

If Fender could only get it's head out of their retro-rehash hole and actually start being creative w/their basic designs...
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Hey, thanks guys...yes, that is indeed a Warmoth wenge/wenge neck on a Fender Classic 50's body.

I had the neck on a Jazz body and loved the play-ability and tone, kinda snarly and mid-focused. These exotic wood necks do seem more common on J-basses but I dared to re-use this neck I already loved when I set out to build a P-bass.

I believe I just lucked out when a TBer up and listed the loaded Fender PJ body, just what the doctor ordered. Now the tone has all the attributes I dug with the J-bass with more thump.

I can go from a traditional P tone to a modern scooped slap tone to a barky bridge tone and they all deliver! Chords sound great too with good tonal separation with minimal phasing you get on alot of basses when you try some intricate note combinations.

I am not a big tone-wood advocate, like you say each species has variances that can tend to blur the lines. Setup, strings, pickups and playing attack contribute much more to tone than the wood. What I do like is fretting a raw wood neck. Wenge requires no finish and is really pleasing to the touch.

I really appreciate the compliment on the design synergy. Again that was just a stroke of luck, I just jumped on a great deal for the body.
 
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