Not my taste in finish but I love the look of that neck!
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NBD: The last in stock
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Back off Hoss and feed your lawyers some scraps, but it’s Lake Placid blue and it wasn’t the only one that Fender/Squier used it on.We are very concerned by the prospect of FMIC issuing musical instruments in our patent-protected Pelham Blue® finish. Please leave sufficient contact information by which we might follow up on your allegations.
Respectfully,
Gibson Brands, Inc.
To be fair it was DuPont or Cadillac or someone that named the color, but Fender never had it.We are very concerned by the prospect of FMIC issuing musical instruments in our patent-protected Pelham Blue® finish. Please leave sufficient contact information by which we might follow up on your allegations.
Respectfully,
Gibson Brands, Inc.
Yes, it is, and I really should have known that.
At any rate, these are surprisingly nice basses. I played mine in a retro country band for awhile.
Wow, that neck almost looks like roasted maple!
You will be putting on some GHS black tapewounds, right,?
You will be putting on some GHS black tapewounds, right,?
You will notice a lot of hum from fluorescent lights, but that is era correct. I pretty much have to turn the volume knob all the way down between songs in at least one bar I play in. Mine is strung with GHS Precision Flats 45-105. I was reading here on Talkbass today where someone said that these were as close to Leo's original strings as you can get (didn't know before, but have been using them since the late 80s)
SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
This thing hum , sonetime less sometime hum crazy like a bee net inside my bass cabinet.
It's a single coil and at home, in the room where I play them I have fluorescent lights, I have noticed no hum at all. Nothing. Nada.
I have one GHS set here to try with this one. I'm really curious to see how she sounds with them.
I have a MIJ 51p with the same single coil design, it's surprising how much tonal variation you can get from these type of basses by where and how you strike the string. I have DR legend flats and they are a good match to my ears, lots of thump but not dull and mushy.
I've never had a problem with hum, but the only thing in my signal chain is a tuner, more elaborate effects use might be more noticeable.
I've never had a problem with hum, but the only thing in my signal chain is a tuner, more elaborate effects use might be more noticeable.
Glad to see the Squiers getting some love. I don't usually consider them when bass shopping. I picked up a used Squier Jazz 5 one time as a practice bass because it had a hard shell case and new strings. The strap pins loosened up on it--still need to fix that. It gets left in whatever basement/rat-hole practice space I might need to haunt temporarily. But I wouldn't hesitate to play it out. It has a couple dead spots one has to compensate for. Other than that it's fine. All stock, and noisy, of course! I'm probably not in the camp of the 'get a Squier and mod it all up' people, fwiw.
I believe Fender calls that "Lake Placid Blue".
Yeah, I am aware that Pelham Blue was coined by Gibson, and I'm sure Fender has a different name for it, but it's almost exactly the same color and I was too lazy to look it up.
Still am, for that matter.
I believe Fender calls that "Lake Placid Blue".We are very concerned by the prospect of FMIC issuing musical instruments in our patent-protected Pelham Blue® finish. Please leave sufficient contact information by which we might follow up on your allegations.
Respectfully,
Gibson Brands, Inc.
