That’s gorgeous, Booker!
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That’s a beauty too.
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Wow! That’s pretty dramatic, if Bruce Wayne plays bass this is something he’d be using on a gig.
I feel bad for many of you because I would definitely do a cover with this bass, 
Congrats @booker_t
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That is a very cool looking bass. I think I had posted a pic of it a while back because I liked the stealthy look.
Why? What is “wrong” with it?
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That looks menacing! 
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Here are my dumb basses:
199X Franken-P purportedly made in Corona if you believe the neck plate?
The neck that came with it said “Precision” twice on the headstock, and I fucked it up trying to hand-ream the tuning machine post holes so I could put better tuners in, so I bought a MIC Squier neck with skinny low frets and hacked it into place.
I made a new wiring harness, installed some random pickups, new pots and cap, new jack, bought a new pickguard, filled the old pickguard screw holes and hand drilled new ones, lined the pickguard and cavities with copper RF tape, used math to figure out where the vintage placement for the finger rest needed to go, slapped a Leo Quan Badass II on, drilled a hole for a steel string tree, and installed QR strap locks. Oh and this time I didn’t destroy the tuner post holes.
I got the bass as a part of a bigger deal for next to nothing, and I haven’t been working in awhile for medical reasons, so I justified spending the man-hours hot rodding it. It sounds great! Crappy basses can play awesome if you put better stuff on them and set them up.
This is as close to my dream bass as I’ll ever justify and will probably still end up costing me more than it should.
1976 Univox Stereo-Bass, heralded as the best 4001 Japanese copy ever made.
This one came with a crappy no-name humbucker, so I got a B-stock genuine Rick pickup, wired that in, and wired in a push-pull tone pot with a capacitor to do the “modern/vintage” jam.
The only other things I did were throw LaBella flats on it, take it to a professional bc I’m afraid of the neck setup on vintage Rick’s which this copies exactingly, and have a Univox truss rod cover made bc pretending to be a Rick is silly and I have a solid collection of Univox instruments and amps that I bought before the market caught up to how good they actually are.
The guy I bought it from ran round wounds on it, so the frets have some pretty bad damage. It will need a refret which I will begrudgingly do someday. Rick refrets are so dang expensive.
Not pictured is a Squier Jag-bass with active electronics I used to play in a few bands and made my band mates give me 10+ years ago, and an Ibanez GAXB a I got off a friend even longer ago that is waiting for me to solder in a new pot after I went hog wild refurbishing it as well.
BASS
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This is my Fender Ultra I’ve recently purchased and loving it
Only been playing a short time and new on here
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@booker_t Nice 
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2003 Elrick Gold Series e-volution
2004 Stambaugh custom ODB
2005 Stambaugh one-off P-style
2004 MTD Kingston (Korea)
2000 Ken Lawrence Chamberbass
M. M.
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Oh yeah!!!
Love them. 
Nice collection.
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Superb collection. Huge congrats.
A few years ago, I had a shot at a mint Elrick Gold, handmade by the man himself. It’s one that got away.
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Now that collection is impressive.
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Vary nice looking family you have there.
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I haven’t been here in a while but here are my basses. My Fender Meteora was the “first” after I tried and hated my Stingray short scale, then my PBass with a Jazz neck, and my latest, that I bought used last week, a black Jazz Bass. I will probably change the pick guard for a pearloid someday. And my cat, Impersonating a third bass. Maybe I’ll be able to play someday, who knows.
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Jazz neck on a P, this is the way…
Nice bass’s… 
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This is the way
Although I love P neck on Jazz
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I haven’t tried that but my experience is limited, I play the jazz’s mostly.
However I’ve been playing Stevie Wonder and Steely Dan last while and they should be played on a P.
I’m still favoring the Marcus ( loving it ) but decided today next round of Stevie and Steely will be on the P.
I found that I have real issues with thicker necks. This may be my thin hands, with long fingers (??) but also laziness. However, my 70’s reissue Jazz has a thicker necks than both my other basses and I am a bit disappointed, because I learned “the hard way” there were several neck shapes in the 70’s for Jazz Basses.
We haven’t made a setup on it yet, and the strings are too big, and in stainless, which is quite hard on my fingers. I have come to realize which strings I like, which I hate (DR black beauty = nope). More to come I guess.
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This I am unaware of, what’s the width at the nut?
I have 2 jazz’s. A 2021 Geddy and a 2018 Fender Marcus both with 1.5 inch, 38 mm nut widths and I really like this width more than my Fender P.
Chuck Rainey (bassist on many Dan albums - Aja and Pretzel Logic to name two) was a Warwick/Peavey player, not a P fyi. Play what you got it will work
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