Latest creation to leave the Bravewood workshop, one for the bassists...a very cool early ‘60’s style P type bass finished in an equally cool heavily distressed sunburst.
Both body and neck are painstakingly hand made using templates copied directly from vintage instruments. The body is lightweight alder, the neck is maple with a lovely dark rosewood slab board and clay dots. Neck depth at the first fret is 21mm, 25mm at the 12th , nut width is 42.5mm. The nut is bone and the neck features two carbon fibre rods embedded within, these not only enhance structural rigidity, they also help even out the response over the neck.
The bass features vintage style hardware throughout, from the reverse ‘Kluson’ style tuners to the threaded saddle bridge. The knobs are the aluminium type as would have been used at the time, even the tug bar and the useless ‘hootenanny’ strap button on the back of the headstock are present..!
The pickguard is 4 ply celluloid tortoise shell, with the vintage correct thin black layer and 30 degree bevelled edge, there is also a full dimension aluminium shielding plate beneath that, this can be seen just peeping out here and there as you will see on vintage originals due to guard shrinkage.
I did some research to find what is currently considered to be the best P bass pickup, whilst opinions varied greatly, one came up time and again...the Fender Custom Shop ‘62 P bass pickup. This is what is fitted and it did not disappoint. This is wired through CTS vintage style solid shaft pots and a Switchcraft jack socket, the capacitor is a 0.047.
The bass is lightweight at just 8lbs 9ozs, is resonant and lively and plays beautifully...it can produce a knarly, toppy tone...or roll back the tone for an instant Motown vibe...all the classic P type sounds are here in spades.
The bass is meticulously and accurately distressed (I can honestly tell you the ageing and distressing on the body alone took four solid days of work), made and finished as it would have been back in the day, yellow dye applied first and then sprayed with the sunburst bands of colour. Once distressed this leaves areas of visible dye in the wood, again as is often seen on vintage sunburst originals.
So there we have it, I’m sure I could go on and on about it, but I’m sure you get the drift, any further questions, please ask...
It is supplied in an ABS hard case.
‘61 style P type bass in distressed sunburst
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