awsome cheap p-bass
Posted: October 14th, 2011, 1:53 pm
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Re: awsome cheap p-bass
Posted: October 14th, 2011, 5:17 pm
Cheap? $350 + shipping for a poplar or agathis body Squier...hum. I like the color though
Re: awsome cheap p-bass
Posted: October 14th, 2011, 5:21 pm
to me it seemed cheap love the color and does wood really matter? the pickups are picking up your strings not your wood idk thats just my opinion.
Re: awsome cheap p-bass
Posted: October 15th, 2011, 3:42 am
Uh-oh.... now you've gone and done it...PunkRockBassist wrote:to me it seemed cheap love the color and does wood really matter? the pickups are picking up your strings not your wood idk thats just my opinion.
This question is right up there with what came first, the chicken or the egg. A story I remember is from Larry Pollack of Aero Pickups. He thought the same thing, and attached his pickups to a guitar body made of cheap plywood, convinced he could make it sound like any other well-made guitar. Long story short; he learned the meaning of "tone-wood"! 
Re: awsome cheap p-bass
Posted: October 17th, 2011, 7:52 am
Density of the wood attributes more to the tone than "quality" being that density is a metric, quality is more of a perception or value.
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I've had a couple of "C" series P-basses, and they're ok, but the bodys do feel a little on the bad thin plywood side of things. The necks are generally pretty nicely made, and the electronics are average for their price.
$350 is way high for this though, I could've sworn I paid that much for a brand new one back in the 90's.
Cool colour, not a $350 cool colour.
AAAAAnyays...
I've had a couple of "C" series P-basses, and they're ok, but the bodys do feel a little on the bad thin plywood side of things. The necks are generally pretty nicely made, and the electronics are average for their price.
$350 is way high for this though, I could've sworn I paid that much for a brand new one back in the 90's.
Cool colour, not a $350 cool colour.