What's your favorite "Non Precision" Precision bass?

[L. L. Elwood]

The very 1st bass I purchased with my own hard earned money while still in high school was just like this Kramer Stagemaster Standard, but mine was trans blue. It's basically a P bass. Vol/Tone, Split P pickup. I'd love to see some of your favorite non Fender Precision basses. Let's say the parameters are: Must have a single P pickup with vol/tone, but not a fender. Go!

 

[metron]

G&L SB-1

 

[L. L. Elwood]

Now THATS a beauty. What year?

 

[Gluvhand]

 

[ahbass2500]

 

[L. L. Elwood]

Ibby Roadstar!! I had one of those in the 80s. It was the best playing bass I ever owned. Action to die for.

 

[5StringBlues]

I'm not checked 1 out in person yet but I really want to see what the blues man vintage stuff is like

 

[ebo]

Not exactly a picture of my bass but it’s there. G&L LB100. Is/isn’t a Fender. I could show my Squier which Is/Isn’t a Fender as well.

 

[socialleper]

I mean, in common parlance that would be called a P bass even if it is technically not a Fender.

If the question is what do I like better than a Fender P, the answer is just about anything besides a Hofner Violin bass or a Rickenbacker. My current fav are Spector Euro basses. I used to like Warwick, but they just aren't interested in getting basses into people's hands.
I'm trying to decide if I like the Ibanez EHB1505MS I bought enough to keep it.
I have a Bacchus Jazz that is phenomenal, I just wish I could find a use for it.
I was really into Lakland basses a few years ago, but I'm not playing music that works well on them anymore.

 

[Clark Westfield]

I know there is another pickup, but my Reverend on the P pickup sounds mighty fine.

 

[mrpackerguy]

My custom 59 contour RS Guitars P with 62 features in seafoam green

 

[Killing Floor]

 

[TDR1138]

 

[DWBass]

My $200 beater Brian by Bacchus P-Bass Shaped Object.

 

[bassist4dalord]

My Ibanez Roadstar II RB630 was incredible. Super lightweight, perfect neck, worn-in blue jeans feel, etc. I added an EMG Geezer pickup which made it even better. I really, really shouldn’t have sold this one. Oh well.

 

[Minus]

 

[C Stone]

 

[LowendG]

I don't have one currently, but I've owned two Yammy BB1200s in the past. I'm a dummy for having let them BOTH go! One was the bass I played on my first session with some LA/major label heavy hitters--it beat out the Fender P I had in my rack. Such great basses.

 

[Riff Ranger]

Electra X700JB (with aftermarket Gotoh hardware)

Yamaha RBX260F

Peavey Fury with T-Series knobs and custom mirror scratchplate (I used to have a pair just like @C Stone but sold off the white one)

Honorable mention: my go-to pair of Yamaha BB734A and BB735A; they do have bridge pickups and I do use them, but the blend strongly favors the split coil in the middle position.

 

[jmlee]

While I'm kind of in love with my various Yamaha BB basses at the moment, they're mostly PJs so I'll move on. I played a '68 Fender P-Bass only for maybe 20 years. I still have it and it still feels like home, but it doesn't leave the house anymore. What gives me that feeling these days is a 1980 Yamaha Pulser 400. Built like a tank and has the same middy warmth that my old Fender had. Great buy. (And yes, that thumb rest is stock and where it's supposed to me. It's not a tug bar.)