Paul C Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 (edited) Final Price Drop to £450 **Neck off shipping now included in the price. UK only. Will be well packed** MIJ/MIM double P assembled for me by luthier Jim Fleeting. Comprising of an early 1980s Fernandez body and a MIM standard Precision neck. Neck feels to me like modern C type but I'm no expert. Standard MIM tuners do the job perfectly well, 2 Tonerider pickups. Lovely bass but I'm selling off anything I'm not gigging. Weighs around 4.3 kilos. Stacked volume knob for the pickups. Push/pull on the tone to give series/parallel when both front and back pickups are on full. Edited September 29 by Paul C Price drop 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grezza 1 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Nice 👌 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkle Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Nice. I made one of these myself a while back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfoxnik Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Double P basses are the way to go... That looks great! GLWTS 👍 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassadder Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Sound wise how does the bridge P bass pickup sound? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted June 19 Author Share Posted June 19 I'm not very good at describing sounds in a useful way. I can share a sample potentially tomorrow. It's probably like a jazz bridge pickup in many ways but with a difference....a bit fuller maybe. That's prob not much help. I'll try and sort a sample. Both on together is pretty aggressive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 On 19/06/2024 at 21:30, bassadder said: Sound wise how does the bridge P bass pickup sound? On the whole the tone at the bridge is less substantial than the neck PUP but probably a little beefier than would be the case with most J-PUPs in the same position. The downside of a P-PUP in that position by comparison with a J-PUP is that output on the D and G strings - for which the PUP is VERY close to the bridge - tends to be a little lower than that of the A and E so it's worth raising the treble side and lowering the bass side of the bridge PUP accordingly (it was to correct for this that some manufacturers such as in the photo by @silverfoxnik above reversed the position of the two sides of the PUPs, although frankly if the configuration above was good enough for Fender in one of their better periods in terms of design and engineering it's probably good enough for most people also). I have come back to look at this bass many many many times over the last few months as I have a rather lovely (and substantial) Warmoth fretless Precision neck with ebony board that I suspect would work very well with that body and especially those PUPs 👍 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 Just now, Beedster said: On the whole the tone at the bridge is less substantial than the neck PUP but probably a little beefier than would be the case with most J-PUPs in the same position. The downside of a P-PUP in that position by comparison with a J-PUP is that output on the D and G strings - for which the PUP is VERY close to the bridge - tends to be a little lower than that of the A and E so it's worth raising the treble side and lowering the bass side of the bridge PUP accordingly (it was to correct for this that some manufacturers such as in the photo by @silverfoxnik above reversed the position of the two sides of the PUPs, although frankly if the configuration above was good enough for Fender in one of their better periods in terms of design and engineering it's probably good enough for most people also). I have come back to look at this bass many many many times over the last few months as I have a rather lovely (and substantial) Warmoth fretless Precision neck with ebony board that I suspect would work very well with that body and especially those PUPs 👍 Unlike on a P/J there will also be a degree of scoop with both P-PUPs set at the same output level, which is not dissimilar to that you'd find on a Jazz Bass but sufficiently different to be preferable to some players I'd suspect 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassadder Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 I’d flip the bridge pickup so the E & A are closer to the bridge & the G & D are a further forward so the G & D don’t sound too tight & brittle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago On 05/11/2024 at 06:02, bassadder said: I’d flip the bridge pickup so the E & A are closer to the bridge & the G & D are a further forward so the G & D don’t sound too tight & brittle You don’t need to really - or at least it would be a lot of work for little real gain given that to manage output you can balance the G/D and A/E poles with PUP height, and in doing so some of the tone imbalance would at the same time be resolved (and of course by swapping PUP arrangement you’d probably introduce different tone issues) 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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