Show us your Double P Basses!

[Doner Designs]

I don't have one, but am thinking about selling my 72P to fund building a rear rout double (or maybe triple) reverse P bass in a J body with a J neck. Nothing P about it except for the pickups. Just looking for ideas and inspiration here.

Just to get a picture in here, I'm attaching a nice body that's in the Warmoth showcase for $100 off. Probably a customer return or something like that. I don't like it because one pickup is reverse P and the other is regular P. Sweet deal if you like the asymmetrical look.

 

[Doner Designs]

Here are a couple of others off google images just to seed the thread.

 

[Bass4LifeRS]

It's a sexy configuration when there's no pickguard.

 

[Whippet]

I always wondered why more basses don't come like that. Any reason why major companies don't do that style?

 

[Linnin]

Modified 1976 Left-Handed Fender Precision.

 

[Doner Designs]

Modified 1976 Left-Handed Fender Precision.

Vol/Vol + Tone/Tone?

 

[Doner Designs]

It's a sexy configuration when there's no pickguard.

I agree.

I always wondered why more basses don't come like that. Any reason why major companies don't do that style?

No idea why - regarding both the double and the reverse aspects.

 

[Doner Designs]

Offsetting the P in the "wrong" direction is the one "mistake" Leo made (in my opinion of course). If it weren't the most iconic bass type out there I think Fender might have flipped it and changed the "ugly" pickguard shape.

I'm looking for that hide-behind-a-wall emoticon but can't seem to find it.

 

[Linnin]

Vol/Vol + Tone/Tone?

V/T + V/T If I were to reconfigure, I would go standard jazz bass volume volume and master tone. Because everything is passive it is all interactive. One change changes everything. I've found what I like, so all is simpatico.

 

[Doner Designs]

V/T + V/T If I were to reconfigure, I would go standard jazz bass volume volume and master tone. Because everything is passive it is all interactive. One change changes everything. I've found what I like, so all is simpatico.

Gotcha. Gibson guitars are like that but I think there is a workaround (which I don't know myself how to do).

 

[Linnin]

Gotcha. Gibson guitars are like that but I think there is a workaround (which I don't know myself how to do).

It's mental. Pick a pickup and make it dominant in both volume and tone. The other pickup and tone become nuances of sonic flavor and trim color. Careful listening and small tweaks. Lots of patience and straight bourbon whiskey.

 

[Linnin]

One thing I would advise is not to use two pairs of identical p'ups. I did that in 1985 when I first hot rodded my Precision with two pair of Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders. I left it that way for some twenty years, and with an act of madness installed a DiMarzio "Split-P" in the bridge position. It's perfect! The humbucking Split P totally compliments the split single coils of the Seymour Duncan's. So think about your pickup choices very carefully.

 

[RED J]

It's a sexy configuration when there's no pickguard.

Yup. on a clean top , beautiful. On a standard P with pickguard, clutter city.

 

[RED J]

Now that's inspirational. I'm about to build a double P, a PPJ looks beautiful !

 

[Doner Designs]

One thing I would advise is not to use two pairs of identical p'ups. I did that in 1985 when I first hot rodded my Precision with two pair of Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders. I left it that way for some twenty years, and with an act of madness installed a DiMarzio "Split-P" in the bridge position. It's perfect! The humbucking Split P totally compliments the split single coils of the Seymour Duncan's. So think about your pickup choices very carefully.

Not sure I get your meaning on split P vs split single. Isn't that the same thing? Are you saying you have two P pickups, one Duncan and one Dimarzio? Seems like enough difference would come from the location (as with a J bass) so that two different winds would not really be needed?

 

[Linnin]

Not sure I get your meaning on split P vs split single. Isn't that the same thing?

No. Notice the twin rails on each half of the Dimarzio? They are humbuckers. The magnets are ceramic-ferrite vs AlNiCo V in the SD 1/4er pounders. BIG difference in tone. I think they are very complimentary. Think of it like tossing a humbucker in the bridge position of a Strat.

 

[AndyPanda]

This sounds really nice but I've wondered if it would benefit from having a hotter bridge pickup (I have a Barden split P rail that I think would work nicely in the bridge position - but the mount isn't standard P)

 

[Hot Rats]

Here is one I built in 1988. I never did take any better pictures......dang.

 

[AndyPanda]

One thing I would advise is not to use two pairs of identical p'ups. I did that in 1985 when I first hot rodded my Precision with two pair of Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders. I left it that way for some twenty years, and with an act of madness installed a DiMarzio "Split-P" in the bridge position. It's perfect! The humbucking Split P totally compliments the split single coils of the Seymour Duncan's. So think about your pickup choices very carefully.

This is exactly what I find with mine (the black one a few posts up with two reverse Ps. They are both identical pickups and either solo'd sounds great but with both together the bridge isn't hot enough without really being too close to the strings. That's why I was thinking a Barden split P in bridge position might to the trick.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

I have one being built by Alien Audio. I'll post when it's finished. Here's the body, pre-buffing / polishing.