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Squier 51 Bass Mock-up

Would rock this bass?

  • Heck yeah!

    Votes: 26 76.5%

  • Heck no!

    Votes: 5 14.7%

  • Heck’n carrots!

    Votes: 3 8.8%
  • Total voters
    34
PennyroyalWe

PennyroyalWe

Sep 2, 2018
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#1
For a good long while I’ve had the thought that it would be pretty dang cool if fender/Squier would have made bass version of the Squier 51.

pic for those who may not know about that model:
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Well, today I found a pretty neat bass mock-up generator, so I had some fun mocking up what I think this could look like.
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It took a little getting used to, and the pickup placement was just guess work using my fat finger on a small phone screen, so these aren’t perfectly accurate. Still, I’m now convinced that this model would be pretty dang cool!

It would be a nice change from the usual p, j, and pj options from FMIC. I’ve also got a suspicion that if the humbucker had the option to split coils, one could get it to encroach into rickenbacker tone territory.

What do you all think about this bass model? What do you think it would sound like? Would it sell?

(I am neither a luthier, nor an entrepreneur, so this is in no way “market research”. Just wondering if I’m the only person who’d buy this in a heartbeat)
 
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I like the idea. I prefer the one with the tele control plate and angled pickup selector switch.

Pickup placement - For my tastes the neck PU is too close to the neck. But if you put it in the normal P position it will be pretty close to the MM pickup. A compromise of moving the MM a bit toward the bridge may work.
 
#16
Have you thought about rotating the neck pickup so the E string side is closer to the bridge than the G string side in order to get a little more definition out of the E string and a little more roundness out of the G string?
 
#18
iiipopes said:
Have you thought about rotating the neck pickup so the E string side is closer to the bridge than the G string side in order to get a little more definition out of the E string and a little more roundness out of the G string?
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While I think you’re correct that that would result in a more even tone, for this example I was simply trying to make a literal translation of the guitar design to a bass w/o adding much of my own influence. I personally think that with the pickup being at such a shallow angle, and that far from the bridge, the difference would be pretty insignificant and the aesthetic would be disrupted if it were angled the other way.

The bridge pickup, I just had to guess, so I picked what seemed the two most likely options though there could definitely be an argument for a JJ pickup in lieu of either of the two I used.
 
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Dynacord said:
For a two pickup layout, while different pickups, I used a stack pot to allow pan, volume and tone. I prefer the ability to blend the pickups over a switch, personally.

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Totally agree, and that’s how I would mod mine, were this an actual model.

I’m thinking I’m going to mod my newly acquired VM TB with a MM pup in the bridge, and have a pickguard made to house an angled scpb, so I can try this out. Plus, a simple change of the pg and we’re back to the WRHB telebass tone. If I go through with it, I’d likely do either two stacked v/t knobs, or a stacked v/t & a blend pot. Probably still need to use a switch, though, so I can get all three sounds from the MM pup.
 
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