Grand Wazoo

I think he means known "as stolen" not as in soon to be stolen unless he's got Mistic Meg's powers

[quote name='tredders' post='885691' date='Jul 4 2010, 07:06 PM']That's great information right there, GW. Thanks for taking the time to reply in such detail - appreciate it. Loving the cow print Jazz, BTW - very cool![/quote] Yeah that is my pride and joy

Hey step away from my soap box you infidels! Well as MusicMan20 said I have both a Squier Precision 50's reissue and a CIJ 51 reissue. Here are the main differences between the two You can pickup a Squier for about £250 upwards or you can find the Fender Jap for any prices nowadays and be advised they've just been discontinued by Fender. So it's either second hand or new old stock, shop soiled or other. I got mine new, probably one of the few last available ones for £499 The Squier is contoured, the Fender Japan is slab bodied. The Squier is made of basswood and as light as a feather, at just 8.0lbs and the Fender is made of a lovely figured ash but it weighs a lot more at around 10.5lbs Out of the box the Squier is ready to go and plays like a dream, excellent construction, extremely well balanced however the pickup is propa-sh|te and I've removed it on the first week, slapped a SD 1/4 pound in it and never looked back. My mates still can't believe a bass below £250 can sound so good on recording through ProTools, and without any effects in between. Out of the box the Fender CIJ also has a fantastic sound and I could have really really lived with the original pickup however I was spoiled by the goodness of the SD 1/4 pound and (there is a long thread about this elsewhere) I've convinced Jason Lollar to make a pickup with the same output as a 1/4 pound on his original bobbin. After a bit of playing with the bridge I finally got the Lollar to work well with the CIJ but at the expense of the original two-saddles bridge because of the neck radius and the fact that the Lollar has flat poles all on the same heigth, I was lucky to have a badass III fitted to an unfinished project bass knocking around in the loft and now is all hunky dory. Incredibly both the Squier and the CIJ have the exact same neck profiles, both nice and chunky but not uncomfortably so. If I was to give a virdict on the fact that the Fender has a slab body to which people immediately imagine that as uncomfortable or painful to play, I have to completely trash that theory with with actual facts: and say "au-contraire" you rest your elbow on the slab edges and your elbow stays there comfortably instead of shifting about on a slopey contour so on that issue if anyone tells you that a slab body is uncomfortable tell them to go and sit on the naughty step until they apologise. One more thing you have to appreciate is that both basses come with not so good wiring and pots, specially the Squier, they were cheap and nasty, the soldering was unprofessional and the pickup was soooo bad it hummed on very high volume. The Fender on the other hand, had slightly better wiring but the pots are cheap and not CTS as in the proper american Fender, as a result I have regutted both basses with vintage correct waxed cloth wiring, original american Fende CTS pots and resistors and now I can confidently say that I own two wonderful basses, I am still undecided as which is better out of the two, all I distinguish one from the other is the light one or the heavy one, as those are to me the only differences apart from the colours. Now a word of warning about the other Squier you've mentioned the Vintage Modified one. Be wary that that particular bass does not come from the same factory in China where the Classic Vibe series comes from, actually from Indonesia, where I am told quality standard are no where near those of the Chinese factory. The Vintage Modified one only has one neck humbucker and and it sounds nothing like a Fender Precision Tele, but much more like a dodgy Epiphone Grabber or something, I was almost going to buy one as I have all the Squiers CV series, but that one put me off, also because the neck is not as nice and it really doesn't feel nor sound like a Fender. here are my two The other Classic Vibe ones together with a Bongo and a Stingray5 Go try one and see for yourself

How did they manage to get away with doing a Jaco Pastorius clone when Fender are doing their own version of it? [url="http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/71397"]http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/71397[/url]

[quote name='neilb' post='882930' date='Jul 1 2010, 12:58 PM']Nice sunny day and my sons sunflower has bloomed..... first my US Std Jazz: Next is my Squier Classic Vibe Precision (these are soooo good. The new age JVs I reckon!!) Ive done several mods to this Squier, including rewire (CTS etc), new plate, Wizard Pups and Fender Reverse Vintage tuners. This is a real player now!!![/quote] Nice Classic Vibe, lovely flowers and shame about the grass. Who killed it?

[url="http://www.fender.com/news/index.php?display_article=533"]http://www.fender.com/news/index.php?display_article=533[/url]

[quote name='Musicman20' post='879405' date='Jun 28 2010, 12:10 AM']Anyone heard any thing on this yet?[/quote] It is true and no they don't offer a replacement, with the exception of the Sting signature model Why do you want one? I might know a guy...

[b]Stevie Wonder's bass player with a Sadowsky 5iver highly figured maple top 2 humbuckers some kind of cherry burst colour[/b]

[url="http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/epiphone-jack-casady/472"]http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/epiphone-jack-casady/472[/url]

[quote name='Mickeyboro' post='877832' date='Jun 25 2010, 10:23 PM']Original caption for pic: Army Sgt. Joe Washam poses with bass player Bee Spears following a Willie Nelson concert at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 12. Washam suffered burn wounds in April while serving in Iraq. Photo by Master Sgt. Lee Roberts, USAF.[/quote] sh*t, my bad, you should have warned us, I thought he had a bad case of acne, my apologies.

[quote name='merello' post='877816' date='Jun 25 2010, 10:07 PM'] Epiphone![/quote] Handsome fella, innit?

I keep having this feeling of deja' vu', thinking where have I seen that post before? Nice one, I'd love a 5 strings cinnamon S.U.B.

[quote name='XB26354' post='877712' date='Jun 25 2010, 07:52 PM']I think the whole point about a good P-bass is its simplicity. I don't get boutique versions of them. From what I've seen the US Standards are as well made as at any time in Fender's history. A vintage P might have a sound and look of its own, but won't be better quality, just older. It is alder or ash, maple neck, one pickup and 2 controls. Decent wood and attention to fretting/setup and you can't go far wrong. If you're going to drop serious money on a bass, either go vintage or get something that does something else - or even, gasp, keep your money in your pocket as I have finally learned to do after years and tens of thousands of pounds wasted on boutique instruments![/quote] 'Precis'ely my point A P-Bass is notorious for that ever present nasal midrange infectious bite that never failto be heard in the dodgiest of mix and worst acoustic situations, it's unbeatable in that spectre, and it'll only sounds proper when it's left as natural as possible, any tweak you make to it, you move away from it's original intended sound, and I've tried the lot of 'em (*mods that is) If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with!

[quote name='Musicman20' post='877708' date='Jun 25 2010, 07:49 PM']Off topic, that sunburst is fantastic![/quote] Yeah man, she is a looker that one

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='877685' date='Jun 25 2010, 07:18 PM']I like the bonsais. The E and G do look like they have a higher action in that last pic, yes? I wasn't directing the 2 saddle thing to you. I'm just so fed up with the comments from those that don't have the wherewithal that they are any less configurable than brand X's super bridge. I think I need to start a thread. [/quote] It looks like they are higher, but they are not. There is still a repectable arc but not as pronounced as the two saddle bridge allowed. And Outshined, I've only just been to SpecSavers this morning to get my eyes tested again because I was due a repeat test. I am pleased to say my prescription has not changed since my last test. even thoough my camera is not really good quality, that's the best I can do photographically speaking.

Outshined, listen pal, you and I, same train of thoughts, severed at the hips to be more accurate, I agree 10000000% with you, and that is the reason I wasn't even contemplating to try the badass on it, because like you I have been thinking that phisics and cause / effect theories did not work out on paper, and to me it never made sense that changing the bridge would have made a blind bit of difference but hear me out. I have another similar bass which is the Squier 50's precision in lake placid blue, as in the pic below: Now that bass is fitted with a Seymour Duncan 1/4 Pound pickup, with fantastic string to string response and a wicked sound! (Hence me asking Lollar to make one as hot as that one, because I am really pleased with the result I get from that pickup) and that bass comes with one of these Fender Hi-Mass bridge very close to a Badass but with traditional saddles in s/steel. See pic below: The poles on the 1/4 pound are also flat as on the Lollar And the fingerboard radius of the Squier is a lot similar to that of the Fender '51 CIJ So that was the turning point when I said to myself, I've tried everything why not try to emulate the same setup I have on the Squier and repeat it on the Fender?.... Since the Hi-Mass bridge from the Squier could not be fitted to the Fender due to the fact that the Hi_mass has 5 fixing screws and the original Fender only 3 screws, I took a badass III off a Jazz bass I had lying around in "project status" with no neck, I decided to give it a go. The reason I did this is not because I think the original two saddles bridge is not good, far from, I really do like the simplicty and sound response from it, but it does suffer from extended practicality in terms of adjustment / fine tuning. So on goes the badass III and after a lot of testing and tuning, this is the setup which was the most succesfull and that eliminated the problem with a louder E The result as you will agree with me is freak occurrence but it works so what am I to do?

[quote name='spinynorman' post='877469' date='Jun 25 2010, 03:33 PM']Yes, seems like a reasonable response to me, but sounds like he hasn't made the connection between the query and being bullied into making a one-off pickup in his spare time. ^_^ Must say I like my 51 RI P a lot better since I started playing it through a Markbass combo, rather than a Hartke HA3500 and Ashdown MAGs, and I'm not convinced the SD Antiquity made that much difference.[/quote] Please man, I never bullied him, actually being very polite as I usually am, I've put a challenge to him, which he eventually accepted, when I ordered it hotter. He has even forgotten that, and not just that he has also forgotten that he told me since I was in UK that I had to buy it through an official importer. I reckon he does too much pot that bloke, certainly has a real short memory and attention span. Moral of the story is simple, I have now gone around the problem by fitting a Badass III which allows me fine tuning of all four saddles and also allows me accurate height adjustment without affecting the neighbouring string, by doiung so I have managed to retain a decent string arc (camber whilst not having the E string too close to the mag pole) It suddelny hit me that the SD quarter pound pickup on my Squier 51 reissue is also all flat and not staggered so I have realized it was because the bridge with individual saddles helped setting the height much more accurately than it does with the original 2 saddles vintage bridge. Happy days again and I won't bother to contact Lollar cause he's been no help to me at all.

Mr. D.R. in Brighton and Mr. A.F. in Bradford, your envelopes have been received and the strips are on the way right back to you's.