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Looking for short-scale single coil p-bass type...

#24
I made my own. Sonic Bronco with Curtis Novak MusicMaster single coil pickup and LaBella Low Tension Flats. It thumps!

Edit: I was initially thinking more about the pickup, but upon further consideration you may also want that type of 51 slab body.
 

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BigBluez said:
Seriously, this is exactly what I have in mind.... but why is it 3000 Euros? I look at the specs and do NOT get it...
Pony ’51 Marrakesh – Vincent Bass Guitars
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Roughly 6 times the price of the Retrovibe P30 accounting for currency conversion. However the P30 is made from assembled parts and not manufactured by the seller himself, whereas the Pony 51 is made from the ground up and not assembled from a collection of sourced parts. So I guess that is a big factor in pricing.

Do you have the ability to put a short scale P51 together from parts yourself?
If so, perhaps you could ask member kodiakblair about it. I'm sure he wouldn't mind giving you some directions to get what you'd need. He provided me with some suggestions about this kind of project back in 2024. Basically pairing a Harley Benton PB50 second , that has only the pickup and control routing, with a Harley Benton PB20 short scale neck. I actially ended up getting a long scale neck for the body in the end. But it wasnt difficult to put it all together.
 
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Prodigus Filius said:
Roughly 6 times the price of the Retrovibe P30 accounting for currency conversion. However the P30 is made from assembled parts and not manufactured by the seller himself, whereas the Pony 51 is made from the ground up and not assembled from a collection of sourced parts. So I guess that is a big factor in pricing.

Do you have the ability to put a short scale P51 together from parts yourself?
If so, perhaps you could ask member kodiakblair about it. I'm sure he wouldn't mind giving you some directions to get what you'd need. He provided me with some suggestions about this kind of project back in 2024. Basically pairing a Harley Benton PB50 second , that has only the pickup and control routing, with a Harley Benton PB20 short scale neck. I actially ended up getting a long scale neck for the body in the end. But it wasnt difficult to put it all together.
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I have made a few parts basses. Never end up liking them quite as much….
 
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Here's my take on a modified Squier Bronco.
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Thread 'My two Broncos'

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The black one is pretty stock, just a pickup change (GFS li'l killer) and a coil tap switch added.

The other one started off as another black and white one purchased second hand, with the idea of turning it into a kind of Junior '51 P bass. There's already some similarities: Two saddle bridge, single coil pickup, slab body.

After disassembling, the body rout was filled in with a combination of wood and filler (mostly filler). I turned the pickup rout around 180 degrees compared to a P bass - figured that if Leo had known everyone would take the chrome pickup cover off he...
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Schecter Banshee Mini P. Delivered with a split pickup. new PG and in my case a Serek LZN-B90. The new PG was shaped to mimic a standar P. The original Schecter shape used a 51 style metal control plate. So your custom guard could be shaped more like a 51.

The Serek pickup is clear and punchy. Even though it is a stacked humbucker it doesn't suffer from aany mud'bucker influence at all.
 
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4Mal said:
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Schecter Banshee Mini P. Delivered with a split pickup. new PG and in my case a Serek LZN-B90. The new PG was shaped to mimic a standar P. The original Schecter shape used a 51 style metal control plate. So your custom guard could be shaped more like a 51.

The Serek pickup is clear and punchy. Even though it is a stacked humbucker it doesn't suffer from aany mud'bucker influence at all.
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That fooled me first glance, as the body shape is very close to Serek’s MW-2. Did you have the pickguard made?
 
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TomB said:
That fooled me first glance, as the body shape is very close to Serek’s MW-2. Did you have the pickguard made?
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Yes. Ben Bonham, BonhamDesign in Hood River, OR did the work. He has a good eye.

This bass came to me with some unexpected 'features'. In an effort to replace the side jack in favor of Reverend Watt style top jack...someone ran a hole saw through the body. They just screwed a Les Paul switch cover to the surface of the back. Why they didn't reverse spin a Forstner bit against the front side to break the finish cleanly and then forward to create a cavity for the jack ? Ben totally cleaned up that mess. This is now the most expensive Banshee on the planet. Not as much as an MW or MW2 though. It came out great.and it is preventing me from just HAVING to add a fourth Serek as I no longer need a Grand or an MW to have that pickup config. Maybe it was the cheap way out afterall
 
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4Mal said:
Yes. Ben Bonham, BonhamDesign in Hood River, OR did the work. He has a good eye.

This bass came to me with some unexpected 'features'. In an effort to replace the side jack in favor of Reverend Watt style top jack...someone ran a hole saw through the body. They just screwed a Les Paul switch cover to the surface of the back. Why they didn't reverse spin a Forstner bit against the front side to break the finish cleanly and then forward to create a cavity for the jack ? Ben totally cleaned up that mess. This is now the most expensive Banshee on the planet. Not as much as an MW or MW2 though. It came out great.and it is preventing me from just HAVING to add a fourth Serek as I no longer need a Grand or an MW to have that pickup config. Maybe it was the cheap way out afterall
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LOVE the color and the tort. I love those pickups too (I have 3 of them)!
 
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@TomB here was the first itteration. Fralin split pockup made fpr Mike Lull's 62/64 P style. Sonically it was no slouch but the Serek pickup has a similar 'more of everything' sound as you know. More like DarkStar / BiSonic than anything else I think.
You'll just have to ignore my WonderBread endorsement deal :-)
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4Mal said:
@TomB here was the first itteration. Fralin split pockup made fpr Mike Lull's 62/64 P style. Sonically it was no slouch but the Serek pickup has a similar 'more of everything' sound as you know. More like DarkStar / BiSonic than anything else I think.
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Where can I get one of those? …shirts that is :)
 
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