NBD - reunited with my '71 P!

[Steve Soar]

1 hour ago, wateroftyne said:

 

Not an A/B, and not well recorded enough to offer a scientific comparison, but here you go.

 

FWIW, I think the maple-ness of the B&W '71 is noticeable.

 

 

Lovely.

[Lozz196]

1 hour ago, wateroftyne said:

 

Not an A/B, and not well recorded enough to offer a scientific comparison, but here you go.

 

FWIW, I think the maple-ness of the B&W '71 is noticeable.

 

 

Agree, the b&w maple seems “higher” in its eq, the ‘burst rosewood sitting “lower” in the eq.
 

Certainly gives me a bit of a conundrum, I’ve an audition on Mon, from the two clips I reckon the rosewood would sound better but I’ve been playing maple for a good while and it feels more familiar. I think go for the one that I play better.

[wateroftyne]

2 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

Agree, the b&w maple seems “higher” in its eq, the ‘burst rosewood sitting “lower” in the eq.
 

Certainly gives me a bit of a conundrum, I’ve an audition on Mon, from the two clips I reckon the rosewood would sound better but I’ve been playing maple for a good while and it feels more familiar. I think go for the one that I play better.

 

Yeah, I'd agree with that - it's horses for courses. The bands I'm in generally have space in the mix for that rosewood 'bloom'. But then I have dep gigs where the maple would definitely be a better fit.

[Geek99]

Wow those squier cv basses are looking convincing these days … and that hooky decal too. Nice job

 

 

😉

[wateroftyne]

1 hour ago, LukeFRC said:

Is it going to wear flats or rounds? 

Flats 🙂

[Adee]

Absolutely brilliant ... so we all agree if you have a silly lapse of judgement again ... we'll collectively come around your hoose and slap you tits ... HARD !!

[JPJ]

As I said on FaceAche, I love a story with a happy ending. And boy does she sound good in that video (and shock horror I prefer the clip with the flats). 

[ezbass]

Love the bark from the roundwounds on the ‘burst. 
 

This has been a great story and a marvellous endorsement of the BC collective (definitely needed recently, what with quite a lot of shouty threads going on without an end in sight).

 

What happens to other basses in the WoT quiver, now that #1 is back in the fold?

[wateroftyne]

11 minutes ago, ezbass said:

What happens to other basses in the WoT quiver, now that #1 is back in the fold?

 

Well... there's a question. I suspect there's a cabinet reshuffle on the horizon.

[police squad]

great story, now where's my old '62?

[LukeFRC]

2 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

 

Well... there's a question. I suspect there's a cabinet reshuffle on the horizon.

One with flats, one with rounds …

[ezbass]

2 hours ago, police squad said:

great story, now where's my old '62?

And my '63?

[Guest]

3 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

 

Well... there's a question. I suspect there's a cabinet reshuffle on the horizon.

 

Do we need to fear for the black and maple? 

[peteb]

I've got a pretty similar story to WoT's - last year I was reunited with the 78 P bass that I bought as a teenager and rashly sold in my mid-twenties when I discovered active basses. Never found a P bass that lived up to my original bass and last year got the chance to buy it back (for five times what I sold it for)! 

 

Picture from last night's gig.

 

Edited November 14, 2021 by peteb

[BillyBass]

Congrats @wateroftyne 

 

Cool video of you with the bass, pity the camera guy was more interested in the singer and that old bloke with the red Strat

[wateroftyne]

7 hours ago, peteb said:

I've got a pretty similar story to WoT's - last year I was reunited with the 78 P bass that I bought as a teenager and rashly sold in my mid-twenties when I discovered active basses. Never found a P bass that lived up to my original bass and last year got the chance to buy it back (for five times what I sold it for)! 

 

Picture from last night's gig.

 

 

Lovely... and what an amp, too!

[NikNik]

I know that feeling of loss. I stupidly sold my coveted XL2A way back in the mid '90s and ten years later bought her back again. Sadly, last year due to no freelance work, I had to let her go. I miss that bass.

[wateroftyne]

More pics. You can really see how much the red has faded on the front compared to the back.

 

 

 

[NikNik]

Wow, that's quite a difference. 

[fun size nick]

On 12/11/2021 at 01:53, wateroftyne said:

 

The red's faded - the red is resplendent on the back and under the pickguard. My '71 fretless has done the same.

 

Not quite sure why some aren't affected. It's a strange one!

 

Pigments are funny things, where chemically the part that gives the paint its colour can be quite different between paints, even with two similar looking paints. There are tattoo colours that are notorious for fading with sun exposure more than others due to what goes into them to make them that colour. I suppose that the chemical makeup of the red paint that Fender used might have changed over time!

 

My early '80s P had the opposite - they hadn't bothered to spray the red where the pickguard would go, so it's a three-tone burst except for underneath the guard.

 

Brilliant story and big thumbs up to @Normski for making it happen.

[markoire]

I’m really pleased you got your old geetar back, and it was v nice of norm to sell it back. Bass chat is great 

[Owno]

Yay - congrats! I bet it sounds great through your TKS cabs!😀

[wateroftyne]

12 hours ago, Owno said:

Yay - congrats! I bet it sounds great through your TKS cabs!😀

 

Thank you - I shall find out tomorrow.. my first gig after serving 10 days time in Covid jail....

[wateroftyne]

First run out at a dep last night, and it's everything I remembered.

 

 

 

[Steve Soar]

10 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

First run out at a dep last night, and it's everything I remembered.

 

 

 

Nice.