JohnFitzgerald

This was built by MPU who I think is a user on here. I’m not the original owner, having bought it from the person who originally commissioned it. Marko (MPU) has boil loads of basses over the years.

You'd hate my Fauxdera then 🙂 I take comfort from the knowledge that this cost me a similar amount to the price of a Squier CV P or J and came from a pretty well known Finnish Luthier.

I have mine on the basis that everyone needs a P bass of some sort and it's honestly all the P bass that I need. It's also the same colour as one of these.

If I showed up to a gig with my £50 Westfield P bass, nobody would care or notice the difference. Provided I play the right notes and respect the song, that's the bit that actually matters. All the other basses are there because I wanted them and was in the very fortunate position of being able to acquire them. Also, I'm shallow enough that if I know that there will be audience members there who care about such stuff, and I'm on a nice stage, I'm bringing out the flashy stuff. ( I'm occasionally fortunate enough to get to do that.)

Reading this does take me back to the history behind Trace Elliott, where Soundwave had originally built PA systems and decided to employ that thinking with a ranger of bass amps. It's all come full circle and anyone who wants an amp 'voice' does it with a modeller.

I only have one amp these days, a Markbass 802 n 300. It does all I need and is a one handed lift.

He did me proud 🙂

Honestly, The electronics are quite intimidating at this early stage. So much flexibility under those four knobs. I'll need to install the Lusithand calibrated knobs.

I picked this up yesterday after having discussed the build with the luthier around 10 weeks ago. Walnut / maple / shedua body Maple / mahogany / cherry neck and board Herrick multicoil pickups Lusithand Double NFP Sandberg bridge. look close and you’ll see many differences compared to the bass it was inspired by.

Aye, If you've lived through hard times, you NEVER forget it.

That's a very simple story. I sold it for £350 in the early 90s.

Ahh, that's my mistake.

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Moving this to build diaries.

My difficulty with these two is. the singlecut is a one of one that was built by a very respected builder. This chance will never come again. The other bass was bought for the biggest gigging year of my life. A year like that won’t come around again and this is the bass in all the photos. Ok, decision made. They’re going nowhere, I need to use them more.

Shhhh…. Don't tell everyone about the USA SUBs… 😎

Fair point.