Bassman Rich Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 On 17/08/2024 at 07:01, Dolando said: Pickup arrived! Custom order from Bareknuckle with aged grey bobbins! All in the details! This pickup looks great. I have a Pink Paisley jap reissue tele bass, and the neck is as good as any of my 3 USA P basses. However, the stock pickup, plus the Seymore Duncan 1/4 pounder is not great, the pole pieces are such that the highest one ( one in from the left on your photo) is under the A string, so the D string is unusually quiet compared to the other 3. Think I need to get in touch with bare knuckle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangepeelneil Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 On 28/07/2023 at 20:25, Dolando said: The decal also arrived but seems a little big to me…? Compared to; What do you think? On a more positive note, some paisley paper and some nitro from Rothko and Frost arrived today. Such good quality!! Hi , I have a good quality Telecaster bass decal which you can have and compare to the gold one you have. It's more silver/grey than gold (bit lighter than photo shows) which may be more period correct? Dunno, the Fender experts will help I'm sure. I'll message you details. Thanks Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted October 24 Share Posted October 24 (edited) I'm really enjoying watching this unfold. I've got three single coil P-Basses that I've built similarly to yourself, but I opted for colour finishes (although I've often thought about doing a Paisley finish). I too did the bare wood build, and sprayed the finishes myself in nitrocellulose lacquer at home. On my basses, I too went through various pickups, before settling on the Seymour Duncan "Stinger" as used by Sting (in his old battered P-Bass), and the late Dusty Hill. It's a stacked hum-cancelling pickup, so needs a 500k pot on the volume, as a standard 250k is really muddy and dark with this unit. Also, I was looking at your harware parts - are those rear string ferrules the correct size? If they're not, then I have a spare set of the period-correct large ferrules that I could donate as a freebie (as they, and my spare Stinger pickup, are just in my parts stash doing nothing - seems like a waste). Edited October 24 by kevin_lindsay 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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