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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!

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PizzaFiend said:
Nice! I’m a fan of Anthology straps too :thumbsup:
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Great straps from a great company! I had gotten a couple straps from a guy who decided to take a bunch of orders, kept the money, and shut down the shop leaving a lot of players in a lurch with no strap and no money. Thankfully, Anthology was there with great service and a beautiful set of straps!
 
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dsteinschneider said:
Please tell me more about your red bass. I'm curious about it because I routed and placed my own Jazz bridge pickup on a Precision in the same place (1/2" further back than the 60's placement). I'm also wondering why the headstock doesn't have either the tele or precision/jazz shape.
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It is a Squier HM Bass, built in 1989 in Korea. I haven't found much about it on the big bad web, but apparently Fender took a crack at the "heavy metal" market, with a Squier line of guitars and basses. A couple of superstrats with the Jackson/Ibanez like headstock, more 80's hairmetal looking logo, that kinda stuff. They started building them in Japan and moved production to Korea (Samick) later on. Rumour has it that many Japanese parts went along to Korea.
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The bass is passive with mini-pots in a cavity on the back, P/J configuration and no pickguard. The split coil is a lot closer to the neck than usual, which gives the bass a very thick, deep sound.
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The neck is great. Fast, thin, maple and some kind of tropical fretboard with pearloid dots. The body is a P-bass after plastic surgery. Longer, more pointy horns, but very much P-bass in dimensions. Light, very light compared to my Precision. The hi-mass bridge is nice too, kinda like the ones Squier still uses on the Classic Vibe basses.
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Overall shape is great, some minor dings and scratches. The pots need replacing.

Edit: should I make a separate topic about this?
 
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I may have posted this bass before when it looked like this:

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But I replaced the pickups, preamp and knobs, and now it looks like this:

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Bartolini split-coil J and an MM made of two split-coil J's. Rear coil/both coils/front coil switch for the MM. Audere 3-band preamp with mid-switch. I really like how it sounds now! Three very usable tones with just the coil selector switch, and way more. The neck pickup is totally usable soloed as well.

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fourstringbliss said:
I may have posted this bass before when it looked like this:

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But I replaced the pickups, preamp and knobs, and now it looks like this:

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Bartolini split-coil J and an MM made of two split-coil J's. Rear coil/both coils/front coil switch for the MM. Audere 3-band preamp with mid-switch. I really like how it sounds now! Three very usable tones with just the coil selector switch, and way more. The neck pickup is totally usable soloed as well.

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That's gorgeous!
 
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Brinkmeister said:
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It is a Squier HM Bass, built in 1989 in Korea. I haven't found much about it on the big bad web, but apparently Fender took a crack at the "heavy metal" market, with a Squier line of guitars and basses. A couple of superstrats with the Jackson/Ibanez like headstock, more 80's hairmetal looking logo, that kinda stuff. They started building them in Japan and moved production to Korea (Samick) later on. Rumour has it that many Japanese parts went along to Korea.
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The bass is passive with mini-pots in a cavity on the back, P/J configuration and no pickguard. The split coil is a lot closer to the neck than usual, which gives the bass a very thick, deep sound.
View attachment 4548809

The neck is great. Fast, thin, maple and some kind of tropical fretboard with pearloid dots. The body is a P-bass after plastic surgery. Longer, more pointy horns, but very much P-bass in dimensions. Light, very light compared to my Precision. The hi-mass bridge is nice too, kinda like the ones Squier still uses on the Classic Vibe basses.
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Overall shape is great, some minor dings and scratches. The pots need replacing.

Edit: should I make a separate topic about this?
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Thanks for all the detail, really interesting. I've got to say that must be a rare bass - first time I've seen it. Would be interesting to hear how it sounds.
 
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fretno said:
Wow that is a beauty!
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Thank you sir. It's my 22 year C&S anniversary present...to me.:laugh: My wife asked if I was getting one this year and I said I didn't know, maybe. She's always cool with that but I've been playing it on the couch watching TV with her for a couple of hours and she hasn't even noticed LOLZ and I haven't told her :laugh::laugh::laugh:
 
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