Quite the score!!! Why don't you give it a while before you defret it. I did that to a Squier P Special 5 and regretted it (even though it was a great fretless).
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Show us your Korean Squiers
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Quite the score!!! Why don't you give it a while before you defret it. I did that to a Squier P Special 5 and regretted it (even though it was a great fretless).
I've got a Squier II Precision, serial E963898
High gloss finish on the neck, with the maple fretboard. Skunk stripe rosewood down the back for the truss rod. Black fret inlays. Its a perculiar color that looks like a turquoise/petty blue. Its a standout bass. Contoured body with laminate construction, white pickguard tha is not beveled, which first caught my attention to it. Old school volume/tone knobs, white with numbers like on the strats. Tuning pegs are the cheap covered kind, the "V" looking polished style.
Really sounds great. Recently had a heart transplant. Opened it up as it was making a lot of static, and found the wiring was a nightmare. Whoever had it last re-ran the wiring, but instead of pulling the old out, they left it and wired over it, using whatever they had at their house. Used butt connectors and instead of shrinktube used liquid electrical tape to cover the solder butt splices in their wiring. So it had to go, and now it sounds amazing. Definitely a keeper. When I get a chance I will snap some pics and post them up for you guys to see.
And the best part is I only spent 30 bucks on it!
High gloss finish on the neck, with the maple fretboard. Skunk stripe rosewood down the back for the truss rod. Black fret inlays. Its a perculiar color that looks like a turquoise/petty blue. Its a standout bass. Contoured body with laminate construction, white pickguard tha is not beveled, which first caught my attention to it. Old school volume/tone knobs, white with numbers like on the strats. Tuning pegs are the cheap covered kind, the "V" looking polished style.
Really sounds great. Recently had a heart transplant. Opened it up as it was making a lot of static, and found the wiring was a nightmare. Whoever had it last re-ran the wiring, but instead of pulling the old out, they left it and wired over it, using whatever they had at their house. Used butt connectors and instead of shrinktube used liquid electrical tape to cover the solder butt splices in their wiring. So it had to go, and now it sounds amazing. Definitely a keeper. When I get a chance I will snap some pics and post them up for you guys to see.
And the best part is I only spent 30 bucks on it!
derylgallant
Bassist from Prince Edward Island, Canada
Hey everyone ... yesterday I scored a MIK fretless .. Sunburst body, white pickguard - classic looking bass.
Serial is CN3xxxxx so made in '93.
I got it for $150 CDN including the hardshell case
It was tuned UP a fourth and the neck is a bit warped - tuned it down and the neck is better already. In fact the neck feels like it will be amazing once fixed. non-gloss back of the neck.
Here's the interesting part.. it's a Jazz body...and a Precision neck. I can't tell if this is the original configuration or not.
Does anyone know if they made Jazz bodies with Pbass necks or would this have been someone's post-purchase mod?
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Serial is CN3xxxxx so made in '93.
I got it for $150 CDN including the hardshell case
It was tuned UP a fourth and the neck is a bit warped - tuned it down and the neck is better already. In fact the neck feels like it will be amazing once fixed. non-gloss back of the neck. Here's the interesting part.. it's a Jazz body...and a Precision neck. I can't tell if this is the original configuration or not.
Does anyone know if they made Jazz bodies with Pbass necks or would this have been someone's post-purchase mod?
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It would have to be a post-purchase project. Even if the neck was P width, if it has a J body, it would be labeled as a Jazz Bass if it was a production bass.
It looks like a defretted neck too (from what I can tell) not a factory fretless neck.
I think $150 for that bass is a really good price especially since it came with a hard case!
derylgallant
Bassist from Prince Edward Island, Canada
BillyB_from_LZ said:
Yeah the more I look at it I see hints of defretting (chips near fretlines), and mod-neck (small paint crack near neck plate )
Either way quite happy with it and will be more so after it has some TLC from my local luthier
derylgallant
Bassist from Prince Edward Island, Canada
The bass has really settled this week ( after it had been tuned up a fourth for god knows how long ) ... I made intonation adjustments and bridge height adjustments and I think I have a new #1 bass. Even with the strings that are at least 8 years old ( the guy had it for 8 years and never changed the strings ) ... it just has a sound that my Japanese fretless does not ( even with the new Seymour Duncan Antiquity II that I just installed 2 weeks ago..doh!! ).
It has a singing and sustain quality that I have not been able to get on my MIJ fretless.
I'm afraid I'm in love.... so happy with this find.
Really can't complain about a $30 yard sale find.
New Pressurewounds and a black guard at a minimum, along with an electronics refresh. Maybe some new phat pups and a bridge down the line. I'll hold off on pulling the frets until August.
It's my second bass ever, so it'll fit along well with my ESP 5er -- really temped to turn this fretless. Talk me out of it.
VN7xxxxxx series. Saehan, 1997 methinks. Sorry, app isn't letting me upload the full frontal...
There it is...
Update:
-- Pulled every little piece apart a while back for a cleaning/scrubbing. Took an entire night shift at work.
-- Added a series/parallel switch under the tone knab.
-- 500k Ω pots.
-- New jack.
-- Pressurewound strings.
-- Blue tort pick guard. Love it. Took a bit of "convincing" to fit.
Imported pick guard. I generally prefer to keep my money stateside, but I can't throw >$80 for a piece of plied plastic that's going onto a bass that hasn't had that much money put into it; ridiculous.
$8.88 on a certain auction site, shipped from some place I won't bother trying to pronounce.
Everyone seems to have brown/red tort or black or white -- haven't found many with blue tort. My wife says that it looks like a bad '90s video. ಠ_ಠ
Here is are some photos of my Korean Squier Bass, serial number E937851. I guess it's an MB4. The headstock is different as well as the position of the controls from other Fender/Squier MB4s. It also came new with American pups. I bought back in the very early '90's. I know it's strung really funky (that's an easy fix). It plays and sounds like an absolute dream to me.
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Im thinking of picking up a mik p. Serial # Exxxxxx. I think that makes it 87-88???? Anything I should look for when I go to check it out? Seems like they are pretty good bang for the buck (would be mostly for my son anyway).
I think the general consensus is the E8/E9 MIK Squiers are 89-91 or so. The value is in the neck so make sure it's healthy and the truss rod is functional. Some bodies are plywood which some people don't care for, honestly I've found them to be fine and light as well.
Thx for the info. Ill be sure to check out the neck. Is there a more desirable neck - gloss or not?
Picked it up for what i hope was a decent price. Case is a little beat up but still functions well. Looks like the strings maybe originals. Nasty. Bass is in good shape but you can tell it hasn't been played in a long time. Thinking about swapping to some porter pickups if it plays decent after setup.
My '93 (CN317334) MIK Jazz
Paid $100 for it on craigslist a couple years ago. It had some issues but nothing a couple turns of the truss rod couldn't fix. In need of a tune up - the pots are a bit wrecked (tone knob spins all the way around!)
Paid $100 for it on craigslist a couple years ago. It had some issues but nothing a couple turns of the truss rod couldn't fix. In need of a tune up - the pots are a bit wrecked (tone knob spins all the way around!)
OK, help me with this Squier II. It's a five string model, wide spacing, precision body but mounted with both jazz pickups, all on a cool green body. Is this a hack, or what? Looks tempting.
count me in
'94 Korean Squier
the previous owner refinished it in Red, the original was blue (perhaps)
there's still the blue under the current finish
and, is it true this one using plywood instead of solid wood?
'94 Korean Squier
the previous owner refinished it in Red, the original was blue (perhaps)
there's still the blue under the current finish
and, is it true this one using plywood instead of solid wood?
My '93 (CN317334) MIK Jazz
Paid $100 for it on craigslist a couple years ago. It had some issues but nothing a couple turns of the truss rod couldn't fix. In need of a tune up - the pots are a bit wrecked (tone knob spins all the way around!)
I have a '91Jazz just like yours but red. I gave it to my son and put some Fralin splits in it last Christmas. It's light and really loud unplugged and I've wondered if others were like this?
count me in
'94 Korean Squier
the previous owner refinished it in Red, the original was blue (perhaps)
there's still the blue under the current finish
and, is it true this one using plywood instead of solid wood?
I also have a CN from 94, also with the black logo. Mine is a red Jazz.
It's plywood. But it has the loveliest neck.
Pickups were awful. I replaced the pickups and love the bass so much, I ended up putting a J-Retro on it. It's a bass I gig with often.
I was surprised to find the neck pickup route was neat, following the contour of the pickup, ears and all, so I have used it a lot without a pickguard.
Here you can see the neck pickup routing (this is during "surgery", when I replaced pickups and preamp):
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and here assembled. The J-Retro preamp uses three concentric pots (volume/blend, treble/bass, mids/frequency sweep) with knobs that are normally chrome or black, but I found these that look a bit like the original Jazz, and I think it looks better
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Hey nice to see this thread again.
So I have a MIK Squier but there is no model make on the headstock it is on the neck plate. It is an E series. Do any of you have one like this or have you seen one with serial numbers on neckplate only?
I completely modded it. the only thing original are the tuner, neck and body. this bass sing and with the Duncan Antiquities pups sound like my old Vintage P basses.
So I have a MIK Squier but there is no model make on the headstock it is on the neck plate. It is an E series. Do any of you have one like this or have you seen one with serial numbers on neckplate only?
I completely modded it. the only thing original are the tuner, neck and body. this bass sing and with the Duncan Antiquities pups sound like my old Vintage P basses.
