Eh. I like both of them. The P bass will sound and play as well as ever, and now it's much lighter. I'd buy it for $300.
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Why would someone do this? (Fender Bass VI)
- Thread starter The Lurker
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if you own it you can do what you like in my opinion no matter how ugly or much it takes the value away. Mike Watt mentality- make it playable to your standards and needs. ya its ugly, but someone loved the heck out of it and i sure wouldn't complain if it was mine.. I'd play the heck out of it till my fingers bled.
Exactly. I think a poop brown strat with a three bolt neck might pass inspection, though.
only as long as it was a hard-tail with a REALLY thick finish. That's be *dreamy*.
Not to mention the narrow placement of the poles. I put a mudbucker in the neck position of my fretless P bass (franken, not vintage) and the spacing is still too narrow even though it's almost touching the end of the fingerboard. The E and G are half the volume of the A and D. Placed closer to the bridge, that must be a nightmare.
And a black guard and those putrid ceramic magnet, flat poled pickups that were the singular cause of DiMarzio, Seymour Duncan and Bill Lawrence going into the aftermarket pickup business in the late seventies. Granted, Gibson pickups weren't anything to write home about in those days, but those Fenders were heinous.
NO!!! They don't. Not unless some voodoo witch doctor with a chainsaw got ahold of it.
Which is why we all replaced the pickups (and other hardware) back in the day. But no no no no no no - it's "Vintage". Really.
You realize we are SO going to get flamed for sacrilege here, right?
Notice how I mentioned a strat, not a P or J. That doesn't count.
Better yet, does "relic" mean a bit of patina and carefully placed scuff marks, or does it mean gaudy hunks of brass replacing every grounded surface on the body?
They took that poor Jaguar and stretched it on the rack until it grew another eight inches of scale length, then when the candy apple red finish flaked off, the marinated it in a jar of honey for 6 months...oh, the horror...then, as a warning to any stray Jazzmasters that may wander by, they fitted it with a mudbucker right near the bridge where the string spacing is too narrow and the poles pieces are too few and far between (how long has it been since you heard that phrase used in a better context?). AARRGGHHhhhh.
Not really, but after being torched here often enough, you can't be too careful.
eh, I have no problem being flamed on something that I am *so* correct about. The '70s were just a bad decade for everything, pretty much soup to nuts... but don't say that to the guy who owns that "Antigua" P-bass!
Never, it's a vintage classic. The 3 bolt neck proves it. That's one of those ideas they should have lab tested before putting it into production. I don't mean "Antigua", either. They looked sort of cool new, once they yellow with age they look like ring around the collar.
