LukeFRC

Well just be happy in what you end up with through auction and don’t find out what it’s really worth. I missed a few items cos I emailed to ask questions and then the item got pulled cos there was a price he would finish the auction at so if I really want something I ask anyway so I know if I’m going to get gazzumped

Yeah but fender in 1961 wouldn’t have done a custom colour with a tort guard, it would have been mint. I’ve a feeling that John keeps fairly close to vintage accurate. (Hence why @owen isn’t showing off his 5 string Bravewood) - the main difference in what John made me was that the neck is about 41mm at the nut rather than the vintage accurate 44-45mm … cos my hands aren’t that big!

Yep. It looks lovely. When he was building it John kept stressing it would have a mint guard… almost as if most people would want tortoise or something.

Really hard to photograph, it’s not as royal blue as the photos make it look, it’s like a rich lake placid blue - have fiddled with the colour values on my phone so it’s kinda like what I see… obv your screen will be different too! should I pick up the Pantone swatches from work 😜

It’s a Bravewood! Don’t you know the headstock is cropped out of view in all the photos! 😮 it’s like magic

it’s lake placid blue that came out a bit darker I think. 🤣 it’s not got any/much yellowed top coat making it green. That said there seem to be some more faded LPB, and some of the fender custom shop early 60s ri are similar to this… I don’t know 🤷 what blue is the blue fender would have been using in 1960 - I like this though!

And it sounds good too... it plays like an old fender that's just been refretted

I think he had been looking at some of the old ones where it's darkened with age as well yellowed. yeah I was hoping for a wee bit more green. I'm guessing it will do that itself over time

Not a limelight... but I see your purple and raise you early 60's style P in Lake placid blue...

@owen will often pop up in threads to say "there is no one [bass] just the chase" - and I think there's some truth in that... but playing lots of things does help you work out what you like... and I like P basses.... my first proper bass a japanese '57ri... then a Squier series JV '57ri ... then a gap and a Yamaha BB1200 (sounds nothing like a precision) and then bought Gareth's green G&L L1000, a kind of super precision that taught me how much I loved bolt on basses. Fast forward a few years and my main bass is a sadowsky jazz that oddly has a lot of mid punch and not much Jazz bass scoop... and the L1000 and my old Warwick isn't being played so last spring I sold them both and set out looking for a precision.... Firstly, it's taken a while and I want to say thank you to everyone who's ear and expertise I borrowed... @warwickhunt, @Hooch, @boroman, @AndyTravis, @marleaux62, @walshy, @gareth, @owen and whoever else I've pestered with opinions of a billion different basses... There's a man in the UK who when I started playing was making basses that looked like old ones, I wanted one of his creations for at least 15 years... except he doesn't do custom orders at all now and builds what he wants... I had an idea, he liked it and started building it. A year later I got asked if I would like to buy what he had built.... It looks pretty cool I think!

What is the bass? Looks nice

Bass guitars haven’t really changed masses since the ‘50s … one thing that has improved IMO is active circuits being a bit more refined

Thanks @agedhorse - an educational read and thanks for sharing

Wait… are clothes an option?

On that- isn’t it passive volume tone, pickup selector switch and then active passive switch and active bass treble or something?

Looks like a great project! Do what you need to make it work!

Ild ask @wateroftyne I think I got in contact via Facebook

This is a Bass doc one here …

I think I'm the same... except I've got the the point where I was using the B a fair bit. My main bass has got a d-tuner and embaresingly I have found it easier to work out 5 string than the D-tuner that I always forget and end up playing something a tone lower than I intended too!

if you do you can mark the second anniversary by posting one of those really long "all the basses I've had" posts and look back at the 30-40 instruments you bought and sold in the year

you're missing an owl after the second pickup - easy mistake to make.

similarly I remember an older friend listening to the strokes and lending me his Television record

a tiny one?