51/68 Tele Bass Parts Build - Gold Paisley

[Bassman Rich]

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. 

[orangepeelneil]

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 

 

 

[kevin_lindsay]

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, 2024 by kevin_lindsay