Maude

The Night - Frankie Valli

Danelectro Longhorn top button is in the end of the body as per that link and it does make getting a strap on (pack it in) a little difficult. Once there it doesn't want to slip off though, and your bass being heavier would just secure it tighter. I have a couple where the top button is in the heel of the neck, which would bring yours forward another centimeter or two, but they are set neck and the heel is deeper more like an acoustic. Would a button in the neck heel put too much stress on the relatively thin amount of wood?

I didn't realise he was touring at the mo. I've love an Alice Cooper gig.

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others - The Smiths

Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode

Too late now but I've seen some people fit a banjo arm rest on hollow bodies to alleviate this problem. It doesn't do anything for looks IMO. Rickenbacker 4005 (single bound) has a nice comfy contour. A banjo arm rest is cheaper though. 😉

Accidentally on Porpoise - Johnny Cash

Jesus Built My Fishing Rod - Ministry

Kick Out the Jams - MC5

Ooh, they look rather GET THE ORANGE ONE nice.

Not even an Ibanez Iceman? 😁

I can do you a mid reverse P conversion pic in the garden from the a couple of years ago. It included a restring. 😁

From the video I saw, there's a reason the band/sound crew were drowning Farrell out.

@W1_Pro, I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner but I recently bought a Hondo II Precision as a bit of a project. I think I just got distracted by comparing yours to my SD Curlee. Anyway I bought this old Hondo bass which the seller claimed had a DiMarzio PU (he was lenient with the truth in other aspects so I wasn't sure). The cover had been pretty crudely glued back on so I've just picked it apart to solve my, and hopefully your, query. The basses are roughly the same era and the pickup looks just like yours (you can see where the glue would've been at the other end) so I'd assume it's the same pickup.

I bought a USA Curlee earlier this year which I still haven't quite decided what to do with. Below are some pictures of the pickups and pots. I'd guess, and it's only a guess, that if your pickups were DiMarzio then the pots would be too, as they are in the USA ones. This is the only pic of the rear of the PUs I've got but you can see they're different. And of course we need the whole bass in it's slightly battered state. As @Bassassinsays, if your PU work give them a go and see what they sound like. I think both pots should be 500k, coupled with the PU being so far back gives them a real aggressive, clanky tone. A bit of distortion and I think they sound fantastic.

A light coat of a vintage amber tint spray would green that blue up a bit, before you put whatever clear on you're using.

Yeah fair enough, I didn't consider that. Although I do like the look of no markers at all, but I am a bit weird like that 😁

I find not selling anything helps to keep track of what I've owned. Definitely doesn't help the bank balance though. 😉

Get the tan one fretted, it's not a huge job and certainly very do-able. I know, I not helping am I? 😁

I realise you've finished now (and it's looking good, I love a red Precision 😎), but for anyone else looking to do similar, calligraphy ink is a very good wood dye. Huge range of colours, cheap, and water based so, as @Manton Customssaid, an oil based finish won't affect it. Seeing @Andyjr1515 use inks led to me trying trying them and I'm glad I did. You can layer it up to a degree and put more on the edges to achieve a sunburst type fade, even blend different colours. The horns and along the centre laminate were put on slightly heavier. And here it is lacquered... And yes, that darker laminate bugs me that it wasn't put in the centre when being built, why? 😁

I'm Cold - The Cure

How about this SX in the 'Basses for sale' section? Depending on how red the orange bit is, a green pickguard could give you your rasta bass.

Let's forget how we're programmed to equate price with quality and give some Olympia flats a go. I put a set on my Epiphone Embassy (a Thunderbird without the neckdive) and I honestly had the best tone I'd had in a long time. Fairly bright for a flat but with that unmistakable flatwound fundamental. I preferred them to my usual Chromes Olympia flats

Who are you kidding? You can't out-Trav a Trav! 😁

And while there I may as well take the Talman for £60 🙈