MJT Aged Finishes relic body with Fender Tony Franklin Sig Model electronics, 1974 Pbass neck, GHS Precision flats.
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- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
I've got a pair of whites too!
But not Fenders. Epiphone Thunderbirds!
One's a Classic Pro, the other, a Vintage Pro....
I can join the club! Picked up this mint Peavey Forum 2 weeks ago. Pretty sure it had never been played and lived its life in the case. It has faded to a sort of cream color but under the pickguard it is bright white.
*This* may have already shown up in this thread? … didn’t review all the pages 
My second FrankenFender creation (after I realized I like P bodies with J necks)
American Special P body (2013)
Amer. Spec. J neck (rebadged w/70’s P waterslide)
Lindy Fralin 10% overwound pups
Hipshot Lollipop tuners
Amer. Dlx bridge
Celluloid Tort guard
DOB neckplate
Currently sporting Chromes
My second FrankenFender creation (after I realized I like P bodies with J necks)
American Special P body (2013)
Amer. Spec. J neck (rebadged w/70’s P waterslide)
Lindy Fralin 10% overwound pups
Hipshot Lollipop tuners
Amer. Dlx bridge
Celluloid Tort guard
DOB neckplate
Currently sporting Chromes
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My Bass arrived.
Fender American Pro II-Olympic White
Fender American Pro II-Olympic White
My white Epi VP.
I love that bass!
I love that bass!
upgraded the pots and knobs on my SB1. Figured that since unlike my other P bass, I'm always fiddling with the volume and tone I might as well know where I am on the spectrum with some numbers.
I have owned at least 4 black basses and basses in other colors, but 2 weeks ago got my first white bass - Sire V7.
Got this maybe 2 weeks ago?
1986 Peavey Dynabass. All original -white with gold hardware. The Kahler bridge was an option for this model.
1986 Peavey Dynabass. All original -white with gold hardware. The Kahler bridge was an option for this model.
The Thud Machine (MIJ '89) has been my #1 for 30+ years!
Just picked this up about a week ago. Custom Shop 59 P. Did not care for the gold anodized pickguard so I bought an appropriate 10hole tort one and reliced it to match.
I think we need a little modern touch here: The twins (Claas Guitars Moby Dick)
I really like the look of theses Ibbys... Cheers!
I’ve had this bass for almost exactly a month (got it on the 17th of April), and once it settled in after making adjustments out of the box (basically a setup as it was unplayable out of the box), it has been performing wonderfully. Plays good, feels good, sounds great! It needs nothing - no upgrades, no pickup or preamp swaps - one of the biggest “bang for the buck” basses out there, especially at $169 out the door on sale. It even stays in tune laying flat in its gig bag in the back of my truck. I just fine-tune it to pitch once a week. Due to Springtime weather patterns, tuning seems to go up or down a few cents, but still stays in tune unto itself.
Back on my Aria Pro II Laser Electric Classic, which was my first bass ever, produced in 1986 (bought used somewhere around the mid 90's), which makes it one of the last Aria models made on the legendary Matsumoku factory in Jacpan, before Aria moved their production to Korea.
Have had an Ibanez GSRM20 Mikro Bass as my main for the last past 10 years, which is just 28,6" scale, but coming back to my first love, which served me for the first 10 years of me playing bass (bar a short flirt with a Rickenbacker 4003 that I ended up hating), before I switched to almost exclusively playing short scale, is something quite special.
There's something about playing a full 34" scale bass that just can't be beaten, somehow it just feels so good despite the longer stretch, it's like it encourage you to play heavier and ballsier, and the tone is so monster gnarly (and the sustain is out of this world too), played with just the neck, sort of true humbucker/reversed P hybrid (the 2 series coils are the full length of the pickups, but only got poles on one half opposite side of the strings respectively for the two coils), pickup in passive mode, compared to the tone of my Mikro with it's EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, which is somewhat more smooth and polite.
Likely the fact that it was my first bass ever contribute to the fact of the feeling of coming home playing it.
Currently I have it strung with gauge .080 - .060 - .045 - .032 D'Addario XL strings, tuned in F# standard tuning, as in 2 half steps above regular 4 string bass E standard tuning, just like my Mikro (the tuning that is, a bit thicker strings on my Mikro, about same overall tension), which I use for the musical project that currently got my main focus, a bass/vocals and drums/vocals sort of progressive psychedelic stoner/doom rock duo.
I am pondering on weather to make this the main instrument for that duo instead of the Mikro, even if I have to strain myself a bit for some of the riffs made on the Mikro when playing the full scale of my Aria Pro II.
Here it is:
Have had an Ibanez GSRM20 Mikro Bass as my main for the last past 10 years, which is just 28,6" scale, but coming back to my first love, which served me for the first 10 years of me playing bass (bar a short flirt with a Rickenbacker 4003 that I ended up hating), before I switched to almost exclusively playing short scale, is something quite special.
There's something about playing a full 34" scale bass that just can't be beaten, somehow it just feels so good despite the longer stretch, it's like it encourage you to play heavier and ballsier, and the tone is so monster gnarly (and the sustain is out of this world too), played with just the neck, sort of true humbucker/reversed P hybrid (the 2 series coils are the full length of the pickups, but only got poles on one half opposite side of the strings respectively for the two coils), pickup in passive mode, compared to the tone of my Mikro with it's EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, which is somewhat more smooth and polite.
Likely the fact that it was my first bass ever contribute to the fact of the feeling of coming home playing it.
Currently I have it strung with gauge .080 - .060 - .045 - .032 D'Addario XL strings, tuned in F# standard tuning, as in 2 half steps above regular 4 string bass E standard tuning, just like my Mikro (the tuning that is, a bit thicker strings on my Mikro, about same overall tension), which I use for the musical project that currently got my main focus, a bass/vocals and drums/vocals sort of progressive psychedelic stoner/doom rock duo.
I am pondering on weather to make this the main instrument for that duo instead of the Mikro, even if I have to strain myself a bit for some of the riffs made on the Mikro when playing the full scale of my Aria Pro II.
Here it is:
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