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New P-Bass!! What do you think?

jazzman64

jazzman64

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Apr 16, 2021
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Hello folks. This is my new partscaster p bass. Here we have a Warmoth DIY-Ready P bass body, American Original 60s P bass Neck, Aguilar Pickups, Emerson Tone Control, Tortosie Shell Pickgaurd, and Thomastik Flats! She weighs in at 6.8 Pounds and sounds great. This is modeled after a mix of various famous bass player's stripped 60s p basses. In particular….Jerry Scheff's!

What do you think?
 
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jazzman64 said:
Hello folks. This is my new partscaster p bass. Here we have a Warmoth DIY-Ready P bass body, American Original 60s P bass Neck, Aguilar Pickups, Emerson Tone Control, Tortosie Shell Pickgaurd, and Thomastik Flats! She weighs in at 6.8 Pounds and sounds great. This is modeled after a mix of various famous bass player's stripped 60s p basses. In particular….Jerry Scheff's!

What do you think?
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I think that's a really nice bass, and will serve you well.
 
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Every Fender (OK, a lot of them) looked like that in the 1970's, except they mostly had amateur un-finish jobs. Your bass is horribly "unauthentic", if that's the vibe you were going for, but yeah, it looks a lot nicer.

i also think having holes for a bridge cover you will never use is silly, but I understand the cool kids think that's the bee's knees.
 
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micguy said:
Every Fender (OK, a lot of them) looked like that in the 1970's, except they mostly had amateur un-finish jobs. Your bass is horribly "unauthentic", if that's the vibe you were going for, but yeah, it looks a lot nicer.

i also think having holes for a bridge cover you will never use is silly, but I understand the cool kids think that's the bee's knees.
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"Unauthentic" how?
 
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jazzman64 said:
"Unauthentic" how?
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The typical 70's "natural" bass was a bass that was once painted, to hide the 3 piece body with horrible grain matching. It was stripped by someone who had no idea what they were doing, sometimes being stripped without removing the hardware.

Your bass looks nice. My comment was a compliment, not a slam. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
 
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micguy said:
The typical 70's "natural" bass was a bass that was once painted, to hide the 3 piece body with horrible grain matching. It was stripped by someone who had no idea what they were doing, sometimes being stripped without removing the hardware.

Your bass looks nice. My comment was a compliment, not a slam. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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No worries! I was fortunate that this body is two pieces and I'm actually trying to make it look as authentic as possible! It's missing knurled knobs!!!
 
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micguy said:
The typical 70's "natural" bass was a bass that was once painted, to hide the 3 piece body with horrible grain matching. It was stripped by someone who had no idea what they were doing, sometimes being stripped without removing the hardware.

Your bass looks nice. My comment was a compliment, not a slam. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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My '73 P has a decently matched ash body in natural factory finish that's turned amber and a maple A neck with the face of the headstock ambered.
 
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