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The Squier Mini Precision Bass Club
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Found a solderless harness on eBay I’m hoping will work with the Mini and a set of DiMarzio Relentless P pickups. Can anyone confirm this spec will work:
Solderless P Bass Harness .047 ITW Tone Cap Bourns 300k split shaft KellingSound
Solderless P Bass Harness .047 ITW Tone Cap Bourns 300k split shaft KellingSound
I say yes. Because, why swap cheap import parts with cheap import parts ?
It will work. Depending on the actual value of the pots, they will make your bass a bit brighter since they are 300k instead of 250k.
Split shaft means you either use the stock knobs or any press on knobs with a 6mm shaft or you buy a shaft adapter and then you can use screw on knobs.
Bourns pots usually are very easy to turn, which for me would be an issue because I never ride the knobs on bass. Volume os always maxed out and tone is to taste. Anyway they are good quality pots.
Make sure you buy a quality jack as well since that gets a lot of action. Switchcraft jacks are good. I wouldn't waste money on pure tone jacks myself.
Finished up the Red Mini body last night. Super happy with how it turned out. 
Do you have a link to the tort sheet? My bedroom is already covered in little balls of solder and cut off resistor legs, I figure acetate dust would really tie in the room together
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BTW if anybody's thinking of buying a flame pattern guard from earpilanz...don't
Does anyone have any feedback on his tort material? I’m specifically looking at Dark Vintage, but I don’t want something that looks like a cheap print that you’d find on a…uh…Squier.
Here's a picture of the sheet i linked above. It's a little more reddish than the pic on the website. I'm happy with it.
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Picked up one of these guys up for a travel bass. Very pleasantly surprised at the quality for 200.00. The neck has rolled edges with immaculate fret work. The fretboard is dark and nicely figured. The whole thing is just well made and useable as is. I bought a sheet of tort pick guard material to make a new guard, and have a set of the LaBella flats. Also have a string retainer for the A string. It needs a little more break angle . Very pleased with it so far. I'll post a pic when I finish the guard.
Rolled edges from the factory? I had to roll mine.
Is it possible they've started staining indian laurel? Fretboards seem to have gotten darker over the last couple of years.
How do you like the tone? Doesn't it sound huge? Mine with the stock pickup already has the deep low end I associate with vintage tones. So much so that I disengage the Vintage button on my Rumble. Of course it also has a rather obnoxious high end (with Chromes) that I roll off with the volume.
My bandmates love my Mini more than my "real" P bass.
That's the spirit!My bedroom is already covered in little balls of solder and cut off resistor legs, I figure acetate dust would really tie in the room together
I made a custom guard for a T-style Eart. It had a smaller than typical Tele guard so I was able to cut down a stock guard to match the previous one.
It was super easy and showed me I could make a guard from scratch. Especially if I have a stock guard to trace onto the blank.
Mine is pretty dark. Other Squiers I have too.
I think they may have become choosy and are selecting darker batches.
All of my "Indian Laurel" fretboards are pretty much indisguisable from rosewood.
I haven't seen any of the "red" fretboards in person, only in pictures. I also think part of the issue is unoiled boards in bright light.
I know that the second I oil my new boards they get significantly darker.
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In this case would I be better off with DiMarzio Relentless Middle vs Relentless P given its slightly lower treble output? (4.0 vs 4.5 per DiMarzio, whatever those numbers mean). I don't know if adjustable poles (only on the P) are a must-have.
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I would go with the pickup with more treble available because you can always take treble out, but adding more can introduce noise.
I’ve never felt like adjustable poles made any sense for a P bass. You can adjust each half of the pickup pretty much however you want.
Finally, after much procasteration.
Got it new at a local owned shop. Was on the way to GC to get one but took a shot in the dark on the local place. They usually take care of any setup issues out of the box before setting instruments out on the floor, so I was pleased to see one hanging on the wall. No fret issues and set-up was quite good.
And as a bonus they had a Tahitian Coral Sonic Bronco hanging next to it. So I got to compare both. Neck on the Bronco was beefier than the mini, which I liked. Mini neck felt fine though.
Both had neck dive sitting without a strap but the Bronco had a lot more than the Mini. Plus the Mini's stock p/up has more punch. No plans to upgrade it yet. The Bronco p/up wasn't what I'd call "in immediate need of upgrade " though. I wouldn't be ashamed to gig with it. I'd at least give it a chance in a mix before yanking it out.
Anyhow, got home with the Mini and put my Franklin strap on it. As expected, no more neck dive. Not a bit. Cool.
Bass weighs in at about 6.25 pounds.
Got it new at a local owned shop. Was on the way to GC to get one but took a shot in the dark on the local place. They usually take care of any setup issues out of the box before setting instruments out on the floor, so I was pleased to see one hanging on the wall. No fret issues and set-up was quite good.
And as a bonus they had a Tahitian Coral Sonic Bronco hanging next to it. So I got to compare both. Neck on the Bronco was beefier than the mini, which I liked. Mini neck felt fine though.
Both had neck dive sitting without a strap but the Bronco had a lot more than the Mini. Plus the Mini's stock p/up has more punch. No plans to upgrade it yet. The Bronco p/up wasn't what I'd call "in immediate need of upgrade " though. I wouldn't be ashamed to gig with it. I'd at least give it a chance in a mix before yanking it out.
Anyhow, got home with the Mini and put my Franklin strap on it. As expected, no more neck dive. Not a bit. Cool.
Bass weighs in at about 6.25 pounds.
