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Post subject: Re: Enter the Blonde...
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 5:44 pm
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Mine is pretty much the same color as gunbucker's bass here....but, I've only got some rather low quality cellphone pictures of her right now. Here she is along with the distant cousin. :wink:
American Fender Precision Deluxe in butterscotch blonde. It's even got the 60th anniversary medallion on the back of the headstock.

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Post subject: Re: Show Your Precision
Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 5:44 am
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These active babies are strung with black nylon strings.


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Post subject: Re: Show Your Precision
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 4:44 am
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oh my, this 7-string looks quite heavy, but the whammy-bar is nice, the volume-knob is a bit missplaced and the output-plug (most-left) looks monstrous; not made for sissies! :mrgreen:


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Post subject: Re: Show Your Precision
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:31 am
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OMG... i own a preci again!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
last one's gone in the '80s, this is my 5th (two '70s and a lousy HW1) and i deeply regret having sold my '62 long, long time ago, a pure rock'nroll-machine and with no compare... :(
i hope that this one will console me a bit and replace it! :mrgreen:

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Post subject: Re: Enter the Blonde...
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 2:33 pm
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These active babies are strung with black nylon strings.


These babies are strung with coated roundwounds. The Squier with DR Black Beauties and the Fender with Rotosound Nexus.


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Post subject: Re: Show Your Precision
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 5:42 pm
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Nice basses. :D

The butterscotch USA Deluxe was also available as a 5-string. Tough luck, they're no longer produced.


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Post subject: Re: Show Your Precision
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 8:22 pm
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I would love to have one in the five string version.


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Post subject: Re: Show Your Precision
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:59 pm
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I would love to have one in the five string version.

sorry, don't like no fender 5-string:
big string-spacing, broad necks, top-heavy and ugly headstock with ugly string-trees... no, i betray with a warwick, a very elegant 3.9kgs alternative... :wink:
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Post subject: Re: Show Your Precision
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 6:34 am
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I just posted a separate thread about this bass, but I figured I'd throw her in here as well.

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It's dated '82-'85 from the Fullerton plant, but I can't say much more that. I've been trying to track down another example of a P bass with a single pickup and three knobs that control volume, bass and treble (the separate bass and treble controls are fantastic). The neck plate says "limited". Perhaps it was a factory special request? Whatever it is, it's one hell of a bass.

*Update ... I detached the neck to see if the body and neck were both original. Turns out the neck is from '83 (as, I presume, are the hardware and electronics) but the body was replaced in '97. The previous owner bought it from a shop as new (at a discounted price at least ... huge clearance sale). We suspect the original body was damaged at some point in the shop and replaced.

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Post subject: Re: Show Your Precision
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 1:50 pm
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low-Hz-blow wrote:
canadian_man_44 wrote:
I would love to have one in the five string version.

sorry, don't like no fender 5-string:
big string-spacing, broad necks, top-heavy and ugly headstock with ugly string-trees... no, i betray with a warwick, a very elegant 3.9kgs alternative... :wink:

To each his own I guess. I don't like Warwick....but I do like the Fender headstock, I don't have a problem with the string trees and love the string-spacing. :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Show Your Precision
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 1:58 pm
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Sabre Lane wrote:
Is that the stock bridge?


Fascinating! This bass looks like a halfway-house between the '82 P-Bass Special and the '83 P-Bass Elite. Normally, the special had the active electronics but a hi-mass version of the standard P-Bass bridge. The Elite had the Schaller fine-tuning bridge shown here, but the ones I've seen also had a Lace Sensor split-coil pickup (sometimes 2) - the one with no visible pole-pieces. This looks like a standard P-Bass split-coil job with open pole-pieces. Is the body alder or ash, do you know?


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Post subject: Re: Show Your Precision
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 2:45 pm
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canadian_man_44 wrote:
I would love to have one in the five string version.

sorry, don't like no fender 5-string:
big string-spacing, broad necks, top-heavy and ugly headstock with ugly string-trees...

To each his own I guess. I don't like Warwick....but I do like the Fender headstock...


the fender headstock-drama: -too many attempts to get the cake baked... all off them do look callow to me or are non-functional in question of balance and string-changing.
and warwick was one off the first builder with a full kicking 5th string... and believe me, i've made a long search for the full lowblow. :wink:


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Post subject: Re: Show Your Precision
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eldorado: I think the rig in the background will make many people VERY jealous! :D

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Post subject: Re: Show Your Precision
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eldorado: I think the rig in the background will make many people VERY jealous! :D

Thanks, not sure about the jealousy. For being relatively cheap cabinets, I've always liked how Hartke systems sound. The HA2500 is my backup amp, my main rig is a HA5500 with 410XL. The GK 212Neo sounds hifi and loud, the Mesa Prodigy head was a disappointment, though, and will be going away.


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