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[quote name='Henrys' timestamp='1375818943' post='2166188'] [/quote] Simply gorgeous! Suppose its a Custom Shop?

Finally took some decent photos of my custom '57:

Thank You the offer, but I am based in Bulgaria and find it a lot easier shopping from Thomann, so would probably get them from there.

[quote name='sblueplanet' timestamp='1370296582' post='2098920'] Lovely job. Here's my 57 RI CIJ lefty for comparison. I added the gold anodised pickguard,chrome covers and it has a Kent Armstrong pickup. [/quote] Looks terribly nice next to the Ampeq. And sblueplanet, You got me into thinking again for a couple of ashtrays

Thanks, fellows. After playing it for a month it has started to get some minor blemishes and the glossy nitro is already starting to get buffed at certain places, so I think that I will pass on the relic job - pretty sure that next year it will be a natural closet classic and in a couple of years probably a natural light relic!

Hello, gents, My favourite precision has vintage style frets and being equipped for a long time with nickel roundwounds, the frets started showing some wear. Since it has a maple fretborad, I do not want a refret any time soon and I switched to flatwounds, but the sound of flats is not what I prefer on this particular bass (don't get me wrong, my other P has been strung with flats for many years and I simply love that combination). So I am after a roundwound sound and am considering to put some nylon coated strings, which I hope would not wear my frets. My question is whether anyone has observations on whether nylon coated strings wear frets more slowly than nickel roundwounds, and how do they compare to flats. Thank you in advance. Kind regards Tsvetan

[quote name='Lee Carter' timestamp='1366293697' post='2050636'] That sir is a beauty. [/quote] Thank You, sir.

I know there is not much of the building process shown, but apologize in advance. To start with – I have always loved precisions and have owned quite a few, but have never been entirely satisfied with them due to some little details. Finally decided that visually the 1957 is my favorite, but I have always liked alder body and other personal touches to it. So my luthier began a quest for the perfect materials and he came up with a brilliant piece of maple – no blemishes, straight lines, medium heavy and sturdy, and an old alder plank – light and resonant. After that the neck was shaped as fat as a baseball bat but with 42.8mm width at nut, 7.25 radius, steel truss rod, vintage frets, rolled fretboard edges. The body: a period correct outline - just a little bit slimmer than present precisions, two piece, 42mm thick. After that they were sprayed in thin-thin-thin nitro. I wanted a vintage tint on the neck, but not very heavily tinted, and two tone sunburst but with pale yellow (not the Fender RI reddish/orange one): The hardware includes Gotoh Ultra light vintage tuners, Fender vintage style bridge, Fender anodized guard (spayed over with lacquer because I don’t like the feel of it when natural), bone nut, vintage Fender barrel knobs, Fender thumbrest, etc. The pickup is my favorite Seymour Duncan SPB-1, vintage wiring with paper-in-oil capacitators. Strung with Fender light flatwounds. I have added the correct decal, because it just looks right this way. And this is how it looks finished: , It came out amazing – relatively light (8.75 lbs), resonant, great thumpy tone but with just enough mids, with the tightest possible neck pocket. It sounds amazing now, I can not wait to see what it will sound like in a couple of years, but only time will show and a pitty no one can speed the process. Primarily I was thinking of relicing it - just some light touches, not heavy relic, but now I am in a bit of doubt- it just looks beautiful the way it is. I guess that now my G.A.S. (this is like my 55[sup]th[/sup] bass and probably 20[sup]th[/sup] precision) is cured for a long long time. Cheers P.S. Now with better pics that are finally doing the bass justice.

Being too much of a precision fan and owning a lot of P's I have rarely bothered to get a descnt Jazz and was not quite happy with them (a cij 62RI and a mex road worn), but last week i tried this Oly white US Standard and bought it in an impulse - sounds absolutely fantastic although I am still getting used to the narrow neck. Nevertheless it feels nice to join the Jazz club once again. .

Simply beautiful! Great job!

Nice job! Love the color!

Wow, hell of a nice job! Everything is brilliant, I even happen to be the only person I know to like high gloss necks! If it was me of course I would like it just a bit reliced and with a paper in oil cap. But again it's not me. Great job, hats down!