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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!

#17,861
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Here's my Precisions. Which one would you choose?
 
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ctmullins said:
The one with the best tone and playability.
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That's a tough choice because they all have their own unique tone and as far as playability goes. They all have very low action as I do all my own levelling and crowning. I set all my basses to .010 relief and action at the 17th fret of 5/64th. String height at the first fret is .022 from the top of the fret to the bottom of the low E string. A couple have action a bit lower overall but none are above what I listed.

The Fiesta Red, Midnight Blue, and Capri Orange are parts builds. The Capri is a killer bass. The Oly White is my 1960 refin. The Black 'n' Maple is my 08 with LaBella flats. The Ocean Turquoise is Player series. Pickups are a mixture. EMG Geezer sets, Fender Yosemite, Duncan antiquity in the 60, and Fender 62's in the Capri. Yeah they're all Precisions but each one has it's own personality so to speak.
 
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BigDrew said:
Damn that looks sweet!! How do you like it?
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It's good overall with a few things I'd like to tweak. The pickups and/or electronics sound a bit muffled or compressed to me compared to my other basses with EMG stuff. Beyond that I may mess with tightening up the string spacing a bit but not sure until I've had more time with it.
 
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halfwound121 said:
Black and maple. And tort. Nice collection!!
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Thanks. As you can see I like tort. I actually tried it on the Midnight Blue and the Capri Orange but it didn't look good with either of those. Also since I moderate the Official Black 'n' Maple Club here on TB I gotts to have me some Black 'n' Maple!
 
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Marko 1 said:
I'm not into green generally, but that green one in back is such a great shade.

yeah, I'll take that one. :cool:
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That one is what Fender calls Ocean Turquoise. That model was a FSR (Fender Special Run) for Guitar Center. I added the Fender hi-mass bridge and a set of EMG Geezer Butler Signature pickups along with a set of GOTOH RES-O-LITE tuners.

The Red is a Fiesta red parts bass with a Mighty Mite neck. The body was a MIM white and I sent it to a friend in AZ who runs Roy's Guitars and he did the finishing work. Pickups are the Fender 62 models Kelling sound harness. I tried a Hipshot KickAss bridge but it didn't sound good on that bass. So I used a vintage threaded saddle bridge which worked perfectly. Tuners are GOTOH reverse vintage style. Neck has lots of flame in the Maple.
All my basses are under 9 pounds as I feel the sweet spot for great resonance on a P bass is 8.3 to 8 6 pounds
 
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60bass said:
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Here's my Precisions. Which one would you choose?
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Tough decision, but I´d probably choose orange, it's not a common color.
Ocean Turquoise... love it, but here it's not showing its all real beauty, maybe the angle or light.

Congrats for your basses :thumbsup:

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That one is what Fender calls Ocean Turquoise.
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icefly said:
Tough decision, but I´d probably choose orange, it's not a common color.
Ocean Turquoise... love it, but here it's not showing its all real beauty, maybe the angle or light.

Congrats for your basses :thumbsup:
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The Capri Orange bass is also a parts build. Players series body and a Mighty Mite neck. I wasn't sure if I'd like the color but I really do. It's looks fabulous in person and the mint green PG looks real old school on it. The pickups are the new Fender Yosemite series and the tuners are my favorite GOTOH RES-O-LITE's. Sounds killer with the Yosemite pickups. Fender claims they have more punch than a standard P bass pickups and they do. Very nice pickup.

The only change I made to them was I applied some copper foil to the pole pieces and soldered wires on the foil to ground. I tend to rest my thumb on the top of the pickup and play right over the magnets. If I dig into hard I'll sometimes hit the pole pieces and it will buzz because by default the pole pieces are not grounded.
 
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icefly said:
Ocean Turquoise... love it, but here it's not showing its all real beauty, maybe the angle or light.
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Here's a much better pic of the Ocean Turquoise. I moved it out to the light. This is a real good indication of the actual color. Fender has always just absolutely nailed it when it comes to what I call "surf colors". Also a pretty good comparison of the new Fender tort versus the older red style of the tort on my 1960 behind it.

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60bass said:
Here's a much better pic of the Ocean Turquoise. I moved it out to the light. This is a real good indication of the actual color. Fender has always just absolutely nailed it when it come to what I call "surf colors". Also a pretty good comparison of the new Fender tort versus the older redder style of the tort on my 1960 behind it.

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Yeah, that's my pick
 
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