Fender Precision Elite I
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Interesting that is has the Fender style headboard rather than the G&L bottle opener style.
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Modern Series Jacqueline RP2-34 34-Inch Long-Scale Bass in Jade Glow with EMG PVHZ/GZR-P Pickup Set (Active) and SPPP/SPPP/T and Trickfish Flexcore 3-Band Preamp (Active)
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If only they had put on another bridge. It just seems too big 
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Yeah, that bridge is quite large and does not look great. 
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This one does look really nice! 
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Almost finished my first Reverse Double-P short scale bass.
It’s for my nephew, who has gone for a symbolic identifier rather than a name.
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= you made that?
I have a lost uncle in England. Could that be you?
That would make me … your nephew! 
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Excellent, if you are my long lost nephew, tell my brother he still has my 1950 Claude Butler Olympic Spring track bike (that he borrowed in 1984) and I want it back.
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Dang! That is beautiful. We’ll done sir.
Can you tell us more about it?
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Another beautiful build. I think I have mentioned this before but I really envy your talent at this.
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Woodworking has been pretty quiet for six months or so but I was talked into making two basses and an acoustic guitar for family members, this is the first into production.
It’s based on the Stanley Clark short scale Alembic but with a headstock stolen from Danelectro. The wood is all reclaimed/borrowed/gifted apart from the Maple veneer. The Maple stripes in the neck-through came from boxing out round steel beams in a pub renovation; the Maple fretboard used to be part of a chair leg; and the Iroko body wings used to be an electrical engineering workbench (this led to the fretboard being slightly too narrow for full 19mm string spacing and the adoption of individual bridges). It takes longer to accumulate the wood and wrestle it into usable shapes, than make the instrument.
Guitar tuners make for a very light headstock so the instrument still balances well, although the upper body wing is hollow. I didn’t have any short scale strings so when I fitted the E string the outer winding wouldn’t go through the hole in the tuner, so I unwound the ring end and shortened it. Very fiddly, not to be recommended.
The telecaster control plate is a client request - with an extra hole drilled - jack, two stacked pots (volume/tone) and pickup selector switch. I splashed out on real Fender stacked pots only to realise they (obviously) have Imperial sized shafts, which don’t fit the Metric sized knobs I had.
Second hand Bare Knuckle pickups with new covers. It’s surprising what you can get from ebay.
I have started on its darker cousin which has an ebony fingerboard and Ebono veneer.
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Yeah this is a very hardware specific thing. Some tuners this won’t be an issue at all and clipping and winding the full string is no problem, others can only take a winding.
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On Sweetwater Gear X-change
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I absolutely love the headstock. It’s like they fixed Fender’s meh one with a little simple change, kind of like how G&L, the Yamaha BB, and various Sire models do.