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My Frickenbird project bass.

I have the 9050's on my '74 Precision, and they are very good, punchy and defined. Great strings.

1997 4003- the cavity was not deep enough but I just installed the pickguard leaving a little bulge, that is, only loosely snugged the screws. It only bulges a little, and I didn't have to rout more room.

"I'm a good bass player, but if I spent more time practicing(and maybe even started taking lessons again) and less time collecting and maintaining my collection, I'd be better bass player."
I'm prolly more guilty of that than anyone. School takes up a lot of my time, and if I futzed around with the ...

I ran the TI Powerbass rounds on my '75 4001 for a few years with out any problems, But that said I think the neck or rods in my bass are stronger than most 70's, there were a set of Fender flats on there for a year with little effect and those are like bridge cables.

If you go with the TI Jazz ...

Clearly the Entwistle influence rages on. Poor guy, his 5 year anniversary of his passing is coming up this week. RIP the Ox, you live on by influencing others.

Nice bass Tom!

And Peter, thanks for letting us indulge in a slightly off topic thread. Hey I coulda picked Jazz Bass pups but for me ...

I would have, Jeff but I have 'em in my Frickenbird already. Like them a lot, they're great pickups, just wanted to try some toasters in this one. I need to get a new pickguard.

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Nope, according to Bill at Reranch, it's Dahpne. I think there's a little more green vs yellow, it's only slightly darker than Sonic Blue.
It's fun but I'm going to swap the 500K tone pot with a 250K, and run a .1mfd cap to pull down the 500K volumes. It's a bit TOO trebly; the Maxima gold strings ...

Pretty good- it's swamp ash so it's not much more than 7 lbs total, and surprisingly it does no nose dive, like my Frickenbird (Fender-Rick pickup'd-Thunderbird hybrid)

Overall, pretty nice.

It's Daphne Blue, a Fender custom color. Guitar reranch was the supplier.

Actually we had practice today and it is VERY bright, the toasters are rather hot. I am running 500K vol and tone pots so it is trebly. I might swap the cap from the .05uf in there now to a .1uf. I am running Maxima Gold ...

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Yes. What's the alpha serno on yours?

So far, mine is the only one I have come across which has
Black Plexi TRC and
1 inch neck pickup spacing

My bass is serno# OJ72xx. October 1975.

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my '75 4001, white, 1 inch neck pickup spacing, black plexi TRC. #OJxxxx

Fenders with Ashtrays rock.

"I would take a bet that 50% of the guys that own Rics and who write on this forum own a P-Bass as well"

I own 5.