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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!
- Thread starter smperry
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J bass needs an aluminum pickguard so it fits the color scheme
Spector Legend 4 (upgraded pickups) and Schecter Stargazer-5 (stock).
scottfeldstein
Roots and fifths and a little extra.
I have had this bass for a year, but today I put on some different strings...
A friend of mine wants to borrow a bass, so I set out a few of mine for him to choose from…
- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,620
- 222,155
- Disclosures
- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
I modded a Talman TMB100 body to accept a 2.5" neck and had a Fender roasted maple jazz neck ready to go for it. My wife has made it a point to say how pretty and nice she thinks that neck is every time she gets a chance, like all the time. I got the hint, I was picking up what she was putting down... so here's my wife's 40th anniversary Squier with a newly installed roasted maple jazz neck and she couldn't be happier lol. She never was a fan of the block inlays
The gold ferrules didn't fit so I used a silver set and I think it looks better than all gold. Wife approved.
In the end, I have a happy wife and used the 40th anniversary neck for the Talman project
The gold ferrules didn't fit so I used a silver set and I think it looks better than all gold. Wife approved.
In the end, I have a happy wife and used the 40th anniversary neck for the Talman project
Nice basses! How do you like the SimS pickups? I've always been intrigued, do they sound well? Do you actually change their configuraiton regularly? Do they sound like real P, J and M pickups, or just various flavors?
Here's a couple more of mine. The Olympic White Rosewood 1960 is my number 1. The Black 'n' Maple 2008 is my number 2.
Number one was my only bass for many years. I took it on the road with me, doing club work and concerts for about 15 years. Everywhere from -56 degrees in Canada to a115 degrees in Arizona. Not once did she ever let me down. Bought her used in the early 70s. IIRC I paid $250.00 with no case. At that time, it was refinished in an incorrect two color burst. The neck had been refretted with huge jumbo frets and a fresh coat of nitro lacquer sprayed on the neck. In 1985 when I came in off the road she was pretty beat up so I had a lifelong friend of mine refinish it in Oly White nitro. No clear was sprayed over the body it was just buffed out. That's why it still looks so white. When seen in person it does look a bit duller and has heat checking on it. Just a fabulous bass that I'll never sell period. Some parts naturally have been replaced due to heavy usage but I don't care. She's a player and sounds like no other. To this day that bass has always been strung with RotoSound RS66 and it wasn't until 2016 that I had the frets dressed. Unbelievable they held up to Roto's for that many years. Before I went on the road I pulled the original PG and put a gold anodized PG on there. I didn't want anything to happen to that perfect 1960 pickguard. I also added gold hardware and a brass nut. The gold hardware is long gone but the nut remains.
Number two was a bass I never intended to buy. Not only did I not want another precision, I didn't one that was black with a Maple neck. I was in the local GC and you know they never have a really great selection of bass guitars anyways. I saw the drone bring the box out from the back, open it up and pull it out of the case and hang it on the wall. He went to get the price tags and I looked at it and I thought, man, that thing just looks beautiful. So I went over to check it out. I pulled it down off the wall the action was sick low. It was in perfect tune and it played beautifully. I knew right then and there that that one was coming home with me that day. I knew the manager of the store so I carried the bass over to him and said I want this bass right now. He gave me a smoking deal. I walked out of there for just a tad over 900 bucks. Almost an unheard of price for U. S. A. Precision bass. I've often wondered what the drone thought when he went back to tag the bass and it was gone LOL. TBH I didn't connect with the sound of that bass. Way too hi-mid focused almost clacky sounding. I tried many different strings and pickups but eventually found the magic combination for this bass. EMG Geezer set and LaBella flats. Boom, she came alive. To this day everytime I open the case she brings a smile to my face
The 1960 and myself as we were when we were on the road. The bass still looks good, me not so much LOL
If it had been 11 it would've been my birth month.
Original PG. Spitfire eat your heart out! Also, love those clay dots. Bridge cover is an original 60 I bought off the Bay years ago. I have the original pickup cover but it's never used.
That beautiful slab of Brazilian Rosewood and that yellowed clear nitro.
Decades of honest real mojo. The back is smooth as glass. I'll never change anything about it.
This bass is so good and sounds huge with the flats. The neck with the rolled edges feels awesome. The pickup and strings are the only things I've changed. IMO this bridge design is the best stock bridge Fender has ever used. 17 years old and already getting some heat checking err MOJO. Whenever I need happy time I grab this bass
Number one was my only bass for many years. I took it on the road with me, doing club work and concerts for about 15 years. Everywhere from -56 degrees in Canada to a115 degrees in Arizona. Not once did she ever let me down. Bought her used in the early 70s. IIRC I paid $250.00 with no case. At that time, it was refinished in an incorrect two color burst. The neck had been refretted with huge jumbo frets and a fresh coat of nitro lacquer sprayed on the neck. In 1985 when I came in off the road she was pretty beat up so I had a lifelong friend of mine refinish it in Oly White nitro. No clear was sprayed over the body it was just buffed out. That's why it still looks so white. When seen in person it does look a bit duller and has heat checking on it. Just a fabulous bass that I'll never sell period. Some parts naturally have been replaced due to heavy usage but I don't care. She's a player and sounds like no other. To this day that bass has always been strung with RotoSound RS66 and it wasn't until 2016 that I had the frets dressed. Unbelievable they held up to Roto's for that many years. Before I went on the road I pulled the original PG and put a gold anodized PG on there. I didn't want anything to happen to that perfect 1960 pickguard. I also added gold hardware and a brass nut. The gold hardware is long gone but the nut remains.
Number two was a bass I never intended to buy. Not only did I not want another precision, I didn't one that was black with a Maple neck. I was in the local GC and you know they never have a really great selection of bass guitars anyways. I saw the drone bring the box out from the back, open it up and pull it out of the case and hang it on the wall. He went to get the price tags and I looked at it and I thought, man, that thing just looks beautiful. So I went over to check it out. I pulled it down off the wall the action was sick low. It was in perfect tune and it played beautifully. I knew right then and there that that one was coming home with me that day. I knew the manager of the store so I carried the bass over to him and said I want this bass right now. He gave me a smoking deal. I walked out of there for just a tad over 900 bucks. Almost an unheard of price for U. S. A. Precision bass. I've often wondered what the drone thought when he went back to tag the bass and it was gone LOL. TBH I didn't connect with the sound of that bass. Way too hi-mid focused almost clacky sounding. I tried many different strings and pickups but eventually found the magic combination for this bass. EMG Geezer set and LaBella flats. Boom, she came alive. To this day everytime I open the case she brings a smile to my face
The 1960 and myself as we were when we were on the road. The bass still looks good, me not so much LOL
If it had been 11 it would've been my birth month.
Original PG. Spitfire eat your heart out! Also, love those clay dots. Bridge cover is an original 60 I bought off the Bay years ago. I have the original pickup cover but it's never used.
That beautiful slab of Brazilian Rosewood and that yellowed clear nitro.
Decades of honest real mojo. The back is smooth as glass. I'll never change anything about it.
This bass is so good and sounds huge with the flats. The neck with the rolled edges feels awesome. The pickup and strings are the only things I've changed. IMO this bridge design is the best stock bridge Fender has ever used. 17 years old and already getting some heat checking err MOJO. Whenever I need happy time I grab this bass
First time in a while I don’t have a bass box in the house just in case I want to sell or trade. Not shown is my other upright - a carved gamba bass strung with guts from the 1930s.
L to R:
‘67 Kay M1
L to R:
‘67 Kay M1
- Spirocore Solos
- DR Sunbeams NMR-45
- red silk rounds - stock Lakland? GHS Boomers?
- slab Pbody
- single jazz bridge pickup
- stacked vol/tone
- strung with LaBella 760-FS flats
- DR Sunbeams NMR-45
- BEAD with LaBella S500L-B
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I really like them. I actually traded a bunch of emails with Martin Sims when I was getting the blue one back in good working order. Very friendly and helpful guy.
The pickups are great sounding, but a little different from the Spector norm. I haven’t really compared output levels with my passive basses, but compared to my other active pickup Spectors, output is a good bit lower (with an LHZ preamp). Spector shipped them with the super high output Tonepump, and that more than addresses the lower output. They also are susceptible to noise, so I’ve added shielding to the pickup cavities to compensate. I like them well enough that I made sure I had two basses with Sims pickups, and I have a third set on a shelf for a future project.
P and J, yes, sound like P and J. I’d say the MM is more of a generic humbucker tone, but that may be about pickup placement.
