Anyone got either of these Squier's? What are they like?

[TomWIC]

I've just spotted these two Squier Precisions on Gumtree near me, and I was just curious as to whether anyone owned these or had played them before and could advise me as to their out-of-the-box quality, and what upgrades (if any) you'd recommend were I to purchase one of them.

Thanks in advance

[url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/squier-silver-series-precision-bass/1030973574"]http://www.gumtree.c...bass/1030973574[/url]

http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/fender-squier-precision-bass-1991-korea-will-ship/1033077723

Edited September 25, 2013 by TomWIC

[gjones]

The silver series Squiers are made in Japan. They're excellent quality, they're made of basswood and have great sounding pickups. The necks on the Precisions are slightly narrower at the nut than normal Precisions i.e. 40mm rather than 44mm. £150 is a good price and I'm sure you'd be very happy with your purchase if you bought it. I owned a Silver series Jazz bass and loved it.

I don't know much about the Korean ones.

[Roland Rock]

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/217932-silver-series-squier-precision-black-l200/

Don't know if this is the same one, both are in Essex

Actually the scratchplate, bridge, knocks are all different

Edited September 25, 2013 by Roland Rock

[JapanAxe]

I had a Silver Series Jazz and it was very good indeed, gigged it loads, then sold it to vmaxblues. £150 is a good price I'd say.

[xilddx]

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I had a Silver Series Jazz and it was very good indeed, gigged it loads, then sold it to vmaxblues. £150 is a good price I'd say.
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I concur. I had one too, superb bass.

[Paul S]

No, not the same bass! The Gumtree one is cheaper than mine!!

[Beer of the Bass]

The Silver Series is almost certainly the better bass - they were the next model up from the Korean ones in the early 90's and cost a fair bit more. I had a Korean Squier Strat from around the same time, the neck was decent but the pickups and hardware were cheap and the body was plywood (though there are good sounding plywood instruments out there).

Edited September 25, 2013 by Beer of the Bass

[TomWIC]

Cheers for the replies all, off to see Paul's one tomorrow

[bh2]

have a Silver Series Precision... my son's 'borrowed' it again... doh!

A fantastic P Bass... for £150 it's a deal! I've seen them go for £250 plus.

[stjohn]

Buy it. The silver series instruments are absolutely fantastic. The pick ups are a tad cheap but the stuff that matters is all there.

[TomWIC]

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Buy it. The silver series instruments are absolutely fantastic. The pick ups are a tad cheap but the stuff that matters is all there.
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Already there, now the proud owner of one. Completely in love with it.