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Got mine and did a set up and electronics change. I had a spare aguilar pickup and kellingsound controls that I am itching to put on something so I got the Squier CV. I loved the 50s P I had before. With this I am loving it even more. The play ability is even better than the 50 I had.
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drool Now I see this:
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Well, damn it all! This is the second time Europe exclusively got a CV Jazz in a finish other than Olympic White or Inca Silver. What gives, Squier?!
Squier Classic Vibe Precision Bass '50s Assembly
I’ve been acquiring parts over the past year and a half for this bass. I wanted to have a semi-modded bass, taking the best (IMHO) from several P-Bass eras. I finally had no excuse and built it up this past week.
original body as purchased
One of the biggest obstacles was mounting my new bridge, as the Squier CVs are all dimensioned with Metric holes and distances. The Fender grooved saddle bridge is SAE, so I ended up drilling out the four ‘outside’ holes, filling them with dowel rod, and then redrilling for the new bridge. Drill press is the only way to go…
bridge hole spacing (metric vs SAE)
measure four or five times, drill once!
KellingSound crazy solderless electronics
almost done
End result is an instrument that required very little setup, sounds and plays exceptionally well. A definite keeper!
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Squier Classic Vibe Precision Bass '50s in Butterscotch Blonde (contoured body)
One-piece maple neck with "C"-shaped profile & 20-fret maple fingerboard
Fender Nickel 7250M Strings (45-105 Medium Long Scale)
modified with:
Jess Loureiro hand-wound coil-split 51 pickup;
Custom KellingSound push/pull controls (series/parallel and multi-tone cap selection);
Shielded control cavity;
Upgraded jack mounting plate;
Fender "Pure Vintage" grooved saddle bridge [required filling and redrilling original bridge screw holes]
Fender '51 P Tele-Bass bridge cover
Grolsch strap locks
New neck and control plate stainless screws
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I’ve been acquiring parts over the past year and a half for this bass. I wanted to have a semi-modded bass, taking the best (IMHO) from several P-Bass eras. I finally had no excuse and built it up this past week.
original body as purchased
One of the biggest obstacles was mounting my new bridge, as the Squier CVs are all dimensioned with Metric holes and distances. The Fender grooved saddle bridge is SAE, so I ended up drilling out the four ‘outside’ holes, filling them with dowel rod, and then redrilling for the new bridge. Drill press is the only way to go…
bridge hole spacing (metric vs SAE)
measure four or five times, drill once!
KellingSound crazy solderless electronics
almost done
End result is an instrument that required very little setup, sounds and plays exceptionally well. A definite keeper!
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Squier Classic Vibe Precision Bass '50s in Butterscotch Blonde (contoured body)
One-piece maple neck with "C"-shaped profile & 20-fret maple fingerboard
Fender Nickel 7250M Strings (45-105 Medium Long Scale)
modified with:
Jess Loureiro hand-wound coil-split 51 pickup;
Custom KellingSound push/pull controls (series/parallel and multi-tone cap selection);
Shielded control cavity;
Upgraded jack mounting plate;
Fender "Pure Vintage" grooved saddle bridge [required filling and redrilling original bridge screw holes]
Fender '51 P Tele-Bass bridge cover
Grolsch strap locks
New neck and control plate stainless screws
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Squier Classic Vibe Precision Bass '50s Assembly
I’ve been acquiring parts over the past year and a half for this bass. I wanted to have a semi-modded bass, taking the best (IMHO) from several P-Bass eras. I finally had no excuse and built it up this past week.
original body as purchased
One of the biggest obstacles was mounting my new bridge, as the Squier CVs are all dimensioned with Metric holes and distances. The Fender grooved saddle bridge is SAE, so I ended up drilling out the four ‘outside’ holes, filling them with dowel rod, and then redrilling for the new bridge. Drill press is the only way to go…
bridge hole spacing (metric vs SAE)
measure four or five times, drill once!
KellingSound crazy solderless electronics
almost done
End result is an instrument that required very little setup, sounds and plays exceptionally well. A definite keeper!
---------------------------
Squier Classic Vibe Precision Bass '50s in Butterscotch Blonde (contoured body)
One-piece maple neck with "C"-shaped profile & 20-fret maple fingerboard
Fender Nickel 7250M Strings (45-105 Medium Long Scale)
modified with:
Jess Loureiro hand-wound coil-split 51 pickup;
Custom KellingSound push/pull controls (series/parallel and multi-tone cap selection);
Shielded control cavity;
Upgraded jack mounting plate;
Fender "Pure Vintage" grooved saddle bridge [required filling and redrilling original bridge screw holes]
Fender '51 P Tele-Bass bridge cover
Grolsch strap locks
New neck and control plate stainless screws
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Awsome ,dude.
I just bought a new white blonde CV50P last week. Love everything of it, just the stock pickups A D sound lower than E G. Interested with your pickup upgrade, did the pickup output better balance now? How about the tone compare to stock pup? tq
Here is my new toy with my lovely CV60P.
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Yeah, I think the pickup output is better, but that might be subjective on my part. Here are the specs of the pickup I had jess loureiro make for me.
12.42 kohm output, seem hotter than some overwound 60 style pbass split coil pickup.
I am not happy with the CV50p stock pup unbalance tone output issue, but I love the sound and I don't want spend money for new pup.
So, I take some risk to raise the A and D pole piece . Bang ！！！！！ Problem solve, string to string tone well balance now. Worth to try.
So, I take some risk to raise the A and D pole piece . Bang ！！！！！ Problem solve, string to string tone well balance now. Worth to try.
I recently got a Black MIM P which had a white/black/white pickguard. I changed that to tort (and it looks great).
Having the w/b/w pickguard in hand, I hovered it over my 60s CV (Fiesta Red, tort, RW, Chromes). I kind of like it.
Not sure I shouldn't try the w/b/w on the CV now....
Will it fit without mods?
Interesting contrasting the two basses. Other that Chromes on the CV, and 7250M Rounds on the MIM P the set up on both is identical. I honestly don't prefer one over the other. Very different basses, but certainly comparable in playability, and quality.
Having the w/b/w pickguard in hand, I hovered it over my 60s CV (Fiesta Red, tort, RW, Chromes). I kind of like it.
Not sure I shouldn't try the w/b/w on the CV now....
Will it fit without mods?
Interesting contrasting the two basses. Other that Chromes on the CV, and 7250M Rounds on the MIM P the set up on both is identical. I honestly don't prefer one over the other. Very different basses, but certainly comparable in playability, and quality.
Sold my Eva Gardner Precision about 2 weeks ago. Bass played and sounded great . Especially with roundwounds. Had that great 70s Pbass grind .
But I had too many black basses and really missed that old school thump of the previous CV60's Precisions that I owned .
Picked up a great used CV60's P bass from a tb member. This makes my 4th one. And I won't make the mistake of selling this one off. As soon as it arrived I installed my 3 yr old TI flats which is an absolute must for a Fiesta Red Pbass .
I'm such a fan of the Classic Vibe basses.
It is kind of sad to see this series dwindle down to only a few options . I hope they don't go away all together.
But I had too many black basses and really missed that old school thump of the previous CV60's Precisions that I owned .
Picked up a great used CV60's P bass from a tb member. This makes my 4th one. And I won't make the mistake of selling this one off. As soon as it arrived I installed my 3 yr old TI flats which is an absolute must for a Fiesta Red Pbass .
I'm such a fan of the Classic Vibe basses.
It is kind of sad to see this series dwindle down to only a few options . I hope they don't go away all together.
Update about DIY raising the A and D pole piece
I take a risk with this DIY, use the wood hammer and screw driver to kick out some amount of the A Alnico rod , the front cover pop out with the rod movement too. Give it second hit, the rod come out with the front cover, then third hit for the D magnet rod. Done with just light hit. I forgot to take photo for the pickup inner detail. I just share my hand drawing figure right here. Please dont mind.
First l give the A rod around 2.5mm raise out from the pickup cover plate, and 2mm for D rod. Make it look a like SD SCPB-1 staggered pole piece shape.
With my favorite neck and action setup:
Neck relift .010~.015,
Action measure at 12th fret,
2.0mm for E, 1.85mm for A, 1.65mm for D and 1.5mm for G.
Finally with some fine tune and press down the pole piece, i found the A pole piece just raise around 1.2mm and 1mm for the D pole piece is the sweet spot to get great string to string balance tone output. This kind of rasing pole piece shape recall me to the Fender original 51's single coil pickups which i found the image from internet previously.
I also found the tone change dramatically and hyper sensitive with different pickup height adjustment for the single coil P bass pickup. I suggest you guy who own CV 50P a try with 3.5mm ~ 4.5mm pickups height on both E and G side. With this pickups height amount, i found it sound raw , organic and woody with volume/tone wide open + fender 7150M pure nickel string.
I am really happy and sastified with this modified.So,i will try to tame the pickup hum volume next.
Thank you for reading , sorry about my poor english.
I take a risk with this DIY, use the wood hammer and screw driver to kick out some amount of the A Alnico rod , the front cover pop out with the rod movement too. Give it second hit, the rod come out with the front cover, then third hit for the D magnet rod. Done with just light hit. I forgot to take photo for the pickup inner detail. I just share my hand drawing figure right here. Please dont mind.
First l give the A rod around 2.5mm raise out from the pickup cover plate, and 2mm for D rod. Make it look a like SD SCPB-1 staggered pole piece shape.
With my favorite neck and action setup:
Neck relift .010~.015,
Action measure at 12th fret,
2.0mm for E, 1.85mm for A, 1.65mm for D and 1.5mm for G.
Finally with some fine tune and press down the pole piece, i found the A pole piece just raise around 1.2mm and 1mm for the D pole piece is the sweet spot to get great string to string balance tone output. This kind of rasing pole piece shape recall me to the Fender original 51's single coil pickups which i found the image from internet previously.
I also found the tone change dramatically and hyper sensitive with different pickup height adjustment for the single coil P bass pickup. I suggest you guy who own CV 50P a try with 3.5mm ~ 4.5mm pickups height on both E and G side. With this pickups height amount, i found it sound raw , organic and woody with volume/tone wide open + fender 7150M pure nickel string.
I am really happy and sastified with this modified.So,i will try to tame the pickup hum volume next.
Thank you for reading , sorry about my poor english.
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Update ～ Copper sheilding
Done pickup cavity and electronic cavity sheilding with copper tape bought from Steward Mcdonal. I warp the pickup wire too.
I success to tame some amount of hum. Satisfied with the result.
Done pickup cavity and electronic cavity sheilding with copper tape bought from Steward Mcdonal. I warp the pickup wire too.
I success to tame some amount of hum. Satisfied with the result.
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Do you give out numbers??? Anyway here is my CV 70s P Bass.
Hey @Tom McClintock, tell me more about this Jess Loureiros pickup. It is quite a bargain at under $50 US. What can you compare it too?
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Also, if anyone has a Squier CV 50's pickguard please pm me. I desperately need one for my build.
Well... the 51 coil-split Tele-bass pickup is 50 Euros plus shipping, so more than US$50 I'm afraid. I can't really compare it to anything I'm afraid. Just seemed like a really nice, hand-made coil split upgrade option. I've been very happy with it.
Came in a nice wrapped package inside a nice box. Individually serialized. Neat stuff. For my next project, I'll probably order some Jazz pickups from him.
I had not been playing my CV 60s P for awhile as a solder had come loose. I took it to the shop and had them put in switchcraft jack, CTS pots, orange drop cap while in there. It already has a Fender "Original" pickup and LaBella's on it. I can't say for sure that any of it improved the tone, but it sounds great regardless. What a great bass! I can't stop playing it now.
