profile precision bass
This is an early model Japanese made bass I bought second hand twenty years ago.
It is presently waiting for a new Warmoth neck. I butchered the original one pulling the frets out. The black pickguard has been temporarily replaced with a surplus white one while Tony Dudzik of Pickguardian uses it as a template for a custom tortoiseshell job. I'm replacing the tuners and other bits and pieces while it is stripped so I won't know till the job is finished what I'm going to do with it.
To be continued....
The Tortoise has landed! A perfect fit, only to be expected from Tony at Pickguardian.
Now for the neck......
I sprayed the new Warmoth neck with clear satin polyurethane, fitted Schaller BML tuners and screwed it all together over a couple of days. I did the intonation and it played pretty nicely straight away. When you replace a neck you have to play around with truss rod adjustments and nut slots that suit your choice of strings so there is no "universal setting". My ideal is a lowish action with heavy strings so as not to get too much slap. I had really small frets fitted to this neck so as to slide the notes more smoothly, so I tweaked the neck nice and flat and straight with a low nut height and more saddle height than on the original. I'm pretty happy with the result...Thanks Eric!
I can't call it a Profile any more because it has too many foreign bits on it now and it's not really a Warmoth either so because it's a Precision or 'P' bass with a WARMoth neck I guess the only name for it is..........
warm pee !