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NBD: Modified 1969-70 Fender Telecaster Bass

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skibass94

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Jul 10, 2012
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Nashville, TN
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I just got this bass the other day. I bought it from my friend's dad who bought it in the late 70's. It is an early Telecaster Bass with a later humbucker-looking split coil in the middle position. It has also been refinished and sprayed sparkly bluish green with a little hint of purple in it. I am obsessed with this thing. It is exactly what I wanted. It sounds somewhere between an EB-0 and a P Bass. Overall this thing sounds amazing and is a really sweet modded, vintage Fender.
http://imgur.com/a/QyvNh
 
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skibass94 said:
It is an early Telecaster Bass with a later humbucker-looking split coil in the middle position. It has also been refinished and sprayed sparkly bluish green with a little hint of purple in it. I am obsessed with this thing.
http://imgur.com/a/QyvNh
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It's actually not a split coil in there, it's a side-by-side humbucker. The "missing" four pole pieces can be adjusted from the back side of the pickup, if you take it out of the bass.

skibass94 said:
It is exactly what I wanted.
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Me to! Except in a fiver. I'd personally prefer the origial chrome control plate though.

I must admit that I'm also slightly obsessed with that look. A couple of years ago I saw an photo of a cheap tele copy that had been modded with a cheap mudbucker copy in that pickup position. That got my imagination going...

Anyway, that's a really cool bas you've got!
 
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