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Folks a bit of help needed here. I have acquired a mid 90s MIM P bass which is most definitely red. Problem is I can't make up my mind which of the Fender pallette it is. I started off thinking it was Torino, but when I clapped eyes on the beastie I started thinking maybe it's Dakota, or indeed some of the other livelier reds. I think we can rule out Fiesta and CAR as it doesn't have that slightly metallicy look about it. I've done a fair amount of Googling but then you're relying on the laptop screen to assess colour representation, whether the bass was photographed in natural light or not etc. I thought if I could find out what Fender were using colour wise in Mexico in 95-96 that would be a start but I've drawn a blank so far. It may be the unanswerable question...but at the end of the day I guess it's not massively importand in the scheme of things. Anyway here's the mandatory pic, but I'm not sure what conditions this was taken under either.

Just bought a P bass harness from Tomas. Arrived super quickly and a great guy to deal with. Many thanks.

Ooooh, let's not

I've used Jacks Instrument Services in Manchester for the occasional oddity. He's pretty good imho.

Ian just bought a bass from me. Easy to deal with, excellent comms and a genuinely nice guy. Thanks for your business and hope to see you again at some point!

Just received a beautiful bass from Drew, packed to survive a nuclear winter and exactly as he described it to me. Great gent and a real pleasure to deal with. Thanks again.

Sorry, I forgot that minor detail :-( In which case I'd personally go Alnico.

Definitely. I don't have one 'in stock' atm so it's all from memory. The other cool option (if it's allowed) is an RFB with series/parallel switch.

I always ask Alan for Alnico now as I prefer that sound, to my ears a bit warmer.

Sometimes a bit corroded too. Seems massively unfair. As I couldn't afford a 1960 P bass (must have been a good year) I now lie about my age.

No offense intended btw. Being an old git I loved the old Gullwing and the older SLs with the more 'vertical' headlights. Not good on the actual model numbers I'm afraid so I had to Google yours which is perfectly fine to my eyes. It has that bonnet too... The ones I fend less easy to look at are the modern saloon, maybe the last 3 or 4 years.

Nice, but where are the pics? You know the rules... Being tight, I've just bought a preloved Ray34CA. I'm hoping I'll get on better with the Alnico pickup and 2-band EQ than the cermic item on an ealier, now departed, SB14 that didn't quite float my boat.

What's stylish about a Merc. They have lost their way in styling over the years imv (engineerin/quality for that matter). Although YMMV of course.

Late to the party (again). Here's mine.

I use the EXL170BT set on all my fretted basses, excellent strings and great customer service.

Perfect gent that he is, just drove over to pick up a bass from me. The usual stress free transaction. I feel duty bound to buy something from you but the ones I want seem to sell before I see them. Must try harder.

I was allowed to buy a '66 Precision on my 50th. My YOB bass would have been too expensive (and not getting any cheaper either). Although post-CBS, Leo and the team were still building them at that point. It's a cracker I have to say.

We record each practice on one of those portable things (Tascam maybe?) and then agree which version we like, which is usually the last one we record, and use that as the basis for practice until the next session and so on.

I think Ped's doing a deal for our data as we speak.