New MIM Fender PJ bass + a question

Beautiful bass! That particular model is discontinued. They replaced it with a similar bass, but with an active preamp and a noiseless J pickup, sometime this summer or so. I was a bit disappointed since I wanted to pick up one of these a while back. I remember playing one with a maple board that felt as good or better than a lot of MIA's I've played!

 

I would say that you got a good deal for 200. Looks great to me. Congrats!

 

Damn straight.....looks good and I'll bet it sounds good. Nice score.

 

I have the same model, but in black with a maple board. Great bass and 200 dollars is an amazing price

 

Fender P-Bass Special, if I'm not mistaken. New, they used to go for a little under $500, assuming I'm thinking it's the same model. They were offered with the gold pickguard, which is what makes me think that's one of them. $200 sounds like a heck of a good deal!

 

That's a steal. The G.C. in SLC had a red one with a gold anodized pickguard. I can't remember the exact price, but I think they wanted $400.00+ for it.

IMO it was one of the best sounding P-Basses they had in stock.

Congrats, -Art

 

My high school had one of those, was on semi permanent loan to me

Backed up my '78. I feel bad for the poor chap who had to use the $200 Ibanez and didnt know the school owned this thing because it was with me.

Phenominal bass, especially for the price.

 

Wow, i really really really like that . . . . mmmmmm nice purteh colours

 

very nice bass. good price. it will always be worth more than what you paid for it. money, well spent.
what year is it? i'm trying to nail down, a "street price" on it.
i'm guessing, $350 - $400. congrats!!

 

$200? You gotta be kidding me -- thats Squier territory!

Beautiful bass (The white and gold are working for me!) and a GREAT score -- nicely done!!!

 

MIM's for 200 are always a good deal imho.
Nice score. enjoy it!

 

Ive been eyeing this bass:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=bass/search/detail/base_pid/515201/

for a while. Looks to me like its about the same, Im new at this though. Was actually about to make a thread asking about the bass.

 

That's the new model of the Deluxe P. It's identical except it has a noiseless J pickup and an active preamp.

 

In this older Deluxe model, as far as I know, these are the same MIM pickups you'd find on a MIM P and in the bridge of a MIM J bass. As someone else mentioned, the new model has US made noiseless pickups, which are basically leftovers from the older US Deluxe models. I recall they did the same thing with the MIM Deluxe Jazz. I guess when they changed the pickups and preamps of the US Deluxe models they likely had a stock pile of the older pickups and preamps on their hands. So why not upgrade their MIM Deluxe models, right? It’s a sweet deal all around, I'd say.

Yeah, the newer P Deluxe is more happening with the pickup upgrade and addition of a preamp. But at $200, I say you got a pretty good deal all the same. And hell, you can always throw in any pickup and/or preamp you want and have an even more killer bass on the cheap. Ya did good!

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Nice bass, sweet deal! Congrats!