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Although it's my least valuable bass in terms of money I would never part with my Musicman SUB4. My son won the bass for being top guy in his year at Basstech. He then gave the bass to me. I will never part with it!

It's difficult to try to assess the instrument without pics and plenty of them. Sounds like a great project. All the best to you!

[quote name='such' timestamp='1339005005' post='1682339'] An American Vintage '62 Reissue perhaps? I'm by no means a Fender specialist, but I know that model exists and it looks (to my eyes) very much like this one. [/quote] It's definitely not a 62 reissue with that headstock and tuners.

I have a feeling that it may be a Highway One with one or two bits added/replaced. The finish looks like polished satin. I'm probably wrong but that finish just ain't shiny!

I think the puckups are different.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1338547213' post='1676060'] Almost unlimited control over tone from a unit that requires no mods to go into a standard design Precision. I could do anything from SERIOUS dub through to in yer face clank with a few tweaks. It's an extremely elegant solution to the P-Bass circuit problem, which has usually required either mods (for the battery) or has been unsatisfactory tone/versatility-wise (e.g., the SD actives). My main question to John - as I was in similar position to the OP - was 'will it give me something close to a Jazz tone?'. He's a very straight-up guy and was not prepared to say yes but said 'try it and see'. I did and it was close enough for me. C [/quote] Thanks for that Chris. I may well consider a P-retro myself.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1338546491' post='1676039'] Stick in a P-Retro and only if you still can't get the sound you want install a J-PUP. I had the same dilemma with an early 70's maple fretless Precision and John East solved it for me. Chris [/quote] Very interesting Chris. Could you say what benefits in sound/tone you got from fitting the P-Retro?

I think the point here is that, as you say, you love the bass but keep wishing you had a J pup. It's your bass and it doesn't seem to me that you're going to setlle to the bass until you fit the extra pup. If you do fit a J pup I'd be interested to hear what you think of the new sound as I currently have a CIJ fretless precision with just the one precision pup. All the best with your decision making!

Absolutely loved it first time I heard it.

Surely all of this is matter of opinion. However, it doesn't do any harm to express our thoughts on anyone's music. Some like some artists, some others. I personally like Esparanza and I don't really care who doesn't, just as I wouldn't expect anyone else to like what I like. It's all music folks.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1337890530' post='1667118'] I'll get the album on the strength of this. [/quote] Me too!

When I listen to any music I either like it or I don't. Sure there are some genres that I gravitate towards more than others but I don't slavishly follow them to the exclusion of others. I am quite used to people saying to me "you surely don't like that do you?" to which I reply "yes I do". I just listen and that's where the pleasure comes from.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1337854164' post='1666319'] Aah fumps, you could fall in a bucket of tits and come up sucking your thumb. [/quote] Never heard this one before. This will keep me chuckling all day. Thanks Paul!

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1337849488' post='1666235'] You know what, I am too! The number she did on Tuesday was a brilliant bit of composition, and it seemed truly from the heart. I could really FEEL her personality in the music and her performance. I so rarely get that with music of that genre, with all the excesses and pressures of virtuosity and peer pressure which usually results in a confused and unworthy mess that represents nothing of value. I think I'm an Esperanza convert, she gave me the unexpected, I really enjoyed it and I want to hear and see that performance again. [/quote] Very well put Nigel. I've been listening to her stuff on Spotify and am finding it extremely pleasing.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1337845054' post='1666169'] Is it just me or does anyone else think that the combination of fan-frets and headless being squared off behind the nut looks wrong? If the nut-end string retainer was custom-made surely it would have been possible to make one which matches the angle of the nut? [/quote] Good point!

I was massively impressed and am looking forward to Friday's show.

It's all a bit pointless as it must always be down to personal preference. For what it's worth, and in my humble opinion, I would opt for Fender.

I have just had a very pleasant transaction with blitz (Dermot). It's nice to make friends as well as doing a bit of business. It was also nice to be trusted by Dermot to accept that my description of the bass I was selling was accurate. When posting abroad I can understand if some folks may be wary. However, if it is Dermot you are dealing with have no concerns. A thoroughly good guy, a great asset to basschat, and if I'm ever in Brussels I'll know who to go out with for a pint!

Nick has just sold me a rather splendid fretless precision. There were problems with the courier which Nick spent a lot of time sorting out. This man is a thorough gent whom I have no hesitation in recommending to anyone who wishes to do business with him.

What is the difference between 'export' and 'non-export' CIJ Fenders. I only ask as I am about to receive a personally imported Fretless Precision 62 RI.

Thanks for the advice I'll give it a go.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1337513161' post='1661095'] Sorry to get all soggy and hard to light, but as a fully-converted Precision fan-boy I really do struggle with some of the stuff being put forward. I have a particular problem with Hodgkinson's solo blues. He's a superb player, completely out of sight of anywhere I'll ever reach, and I have nothing but respect for the man. But the fact that someone as gifted as him is capable of playing a Precision bass like an acoustic guitar does not make it a good idea. To my ears, the tone he gets in those clips (or, more accurately, the noise) is utterly dire. As a 2-minute novelty item on YouTube it's quite amusing. But if I'd paid to go to a gig and found myself confronted by an evening of that, I'd be gone within ten minutes. [/quote] Couldn't have put it better myself. I didn't even get to the end of the clips.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1337451110' post='1660344'] You found 'vistuosity' on Wiki? No wonder people think it's unreliable. [/quote] I really should be banned from Basschat for commiting the hideous crime of typing too fast, not checking my spelling, and then having the audacity to post up. Can there be a worse crime?