My friends a idiot

[Killed_by_Death]

If it were a Stratocaster or a Telecaster, we'd be calling it a Partscaster.

 

[mcnach]

i have a p bass made completely from genuine fender parts. My friend told me that it is not a real p bass because it wasn't built from the factory. Even though all the parts were. Anyone else think parts fenders and frankenfenders are not legit fenders even though all the parts were made by fender smh

It's a Precision bass alright, but I'd say it's not a Fender because it was not made by Fender. Simple.
However... if you have two Fender basses, say a Jazz and a Precision, and you swap the necks... are they still Fenders? I'd say yes in that case. But not if you just start sourcing all the parts separately and assemble it. Hmmm, I can't say I have ever given it much thought

 

[Matthew Fisher]

So is that darned debate over? Killing time here until it's safe to leave talkbass.

 

[tbasstreble11]

Punctuation Nazi's are a special division of the grammar Nazi's, and not to be dealt with lightly.

*Punctuation Nazi's are a special division of the grammar Nazi's, and, not to be dealt with lightly.

 

[punchdrunk]

This has beent the mostest entertained I'm am in so long.

 

[Kubicki Fan]

What makes a "real" P bass anyway? I have a total parts P bass - Warmoth body, All Parts neck, Gotoh Bridge, Lindy Fralin pup and Hipshot tuners. It's still a real P bass. Just wasn't built by Fender.
I don't know that you could legitimately advertise yours for sale as 100% original Fender P bass, In that regard it is a curious question.

^
That is a P bass and a half. At least...

 

[Mvilmany]

Tho
guess there just snobs

*they're* Anyway, if you're using all Fender parts, then I would consider it a Fender.

 

[Fat Freddy]

I don't give a flying funt if it's a Fender or not.....How does it play?

 

[Salicete]

You lost me at "a idiot".

He lost me at "my friends a."

 

[Bassbubble11]

Will it core a apple?

 

[GroovinOnFunk]

My friends could care less he is reading this thread with me.

Ok... this is getting really confusing. Is it just one friend who's opinion is so valuable to you or are there several friends from whom you require validation?

 

[JMacBass65]

My friends could care less he is reading this thread with me.

OMG
SMH

 

[matty4string]

Ok... this is getting really confusing. Is it just one friend who's opinion is so valuable to you or are there several friends from whom you require validation?

Is that important?

 

[bassstrangler]

I have a P bass with mostly all Fender parts, MIM replacement body, MIJ Steve Harris neck, Steve Harris pups, everything else is Fender. It's a Fender.

I have a MIM P bass with a replacement MIM Fender neck and Geezer pups. It's a Fender.

 

[joker820]

Wish I would've read this thread without buying a bass that says Mike Lull on it. Here I thought I've been playing a precision bass the whole time.

 

[JMacBass65]

Tho
guess there just snobs

Now you're just baiting us.

 

[Canadian APII]

Here is my P bass. Maybe a Fender body $35 since it had a Fenderplast type coating on it. Double Eagle neck $60, Grover Wavy tuners $80, Seymour Duncan Basslines Quarter Pound pickups $85, A Stewmac P bass wiring kit $32 and a Babicz bridge $100. Less than $400 all in and sounds better than Fender all day long.

 

[DigitalMan]

MS Word would like you to remove that last comma before continuing with the grammar check. I didn't actually run your post through MS Word, but it does squawk in such cases. Oh dear, the Grammarly plugin for Firefox, which I've just installed as of this sentence, has found "to to" in your post as well -- but thank goodness it's only a false positive.

If I were taking umbrage at 33% of what I read on the internet due to OGD (obsessive grammarian disorder), I would retire to a nice, dark cave, there to spend the rest of my days. I'm glad that you're able to manage it so well and can bring your concerns to the table. You're right, you know, you're no Nazi. Just punctilious and proud of it.

Incidentally, Grammarly takes no umbrage at your last comma. When it comes to commas, I've long been suspicious of Word's distinction between which and that. I'll stop obeying that rule except when submitting prose to customers who are guaranteed to freak out about the dread red squigglies. OMG I love this plugin. Oops, "Missing punctuation after interjection". And now it's complaining about a missing article in its own error message. How very meta.

When you break it down "that can be avoided" is a restrictive participal modifying "problems", and is therefore essential to the sentence. A comma is not used with restrictive participles. Simple.

You wouldn't use a comma in the sentence "This is the horse, that won the Kentucky Derby." Same idea.

 

[Ramonesfan59]

IMO: It's irrelevant until you decide to sell the bass. If you fully disclose the origin of the bass when (if) you decide to sell it, then you're OK by me.
When (if) the time comes for me to sell my gear, do we really think anyone is going to believe there was a special batch of Blacktop Precisions made with maple PB Special maple necks, and that I happen to own all three of them...and that one of them is orange? Yeah, I didn't think so either.

 

[Eminor3rd]

Post of the year?