Yowza! Gollywog linked to this in a guitar thread and I'm bringing it here just to generate some specific discussion.

Squier has a new tele bass - though the list it among their vintage modified p-bass options.

It looks super cool! I very much like the tele headstock and big neck pickup. I wonder what that pickup will sound like... hmmm... If it is nice as the vintage modified jazz bass - which I think is super - then this could be a huge winner for squier. And it could encourage me to pick up a new bass (though I've been hunting for a T-40 and will probably go that route in any case... although... load a T-40 pickup into this tele bass and it might be spectacular!)

I haven't found it for sale online yet, but soon I'm sure.

Thoughts?

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hollowbodies: 1960s kent americana - 1960s truetone speed-demon
solidbodies: 1996 fender standard james burton tele - 2005/6 squier deluxe trans strat
---> rat 2 + rat 2 + deluxe memory man + c.bread semaphore + e13 soda meiser + zvex lo-fi loop junky
OR (noisy, not true bypass at all) ---> 70s morley power fuzz wah + dod 490 phasor
---> randall commander 210 - epiphone valve junior - univox minimax u4100: 1x15

THE FALL: totally wired ++ THE FALL: big new prinz ++ THE FALL: bombast/crusiers creek
DEVO ++ THE DIRTBOMBS ++ THE KING BROTHERS

That's like the best bass ever coming from Squier, designwise anyway. I'd like to see that bass with two pickups (two big chrome-y ones that is), close to the neck like an old Hofner...

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I concur! I think the vintage modified jazz bass - the natural one with black block fret markers - is also quite cool. Squier is making some pretty great gear of late - I have a recent deluxe trans strat that is tops and all the "vintage modified" and standard models of strats and teles I've played in the last year or so have all been quite good (save for the occasional need of a good setup and fret dress, but I know how to do that myself). I think the mid 00's will be a notable era for them. That would be a very very cool mod! I can see it happening quite handily. Is there a place to find aftermarket tele bass pickups? or ones for the gibson/epi eb series (the sg style basses)? neat neat NEAT!

edit: I've been searching for a few minutes and can't find replacement/aftermarket pickups of this style. I know they must exist. Can someone send me in the right direction?

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hollowbodies: 1960s kent americana - 1960s truetone speed-demon
solidbodies: 1996 fender standard james burton tele - 2005/6 squier deluxe trans strat
---> rat 2 + rat 2 + deluxe memory man + c.bread semaphore + e13 soda meiser + zvex lo-fi loop junky
OR (noisy, not true bypass at all) ---> 70s morley power fuzz wah + dod 490 phasor
---> randall commander 210 - epiphone valve junior - univox minimax u4100: 1x15

THE FALL: totally wired ++ THE FALL: big new prinz ++ THE FALL: bombast/crusiers creek
DEVO ++ THE DIRTBOMBS ++ THE KING BROTHERS

Seymour Duncan does a 'tele' bass replacement pickup.
the gibson eb pickups, though, i believe are not in production. i could be wrong, though, and really hope i am.

i'd really like to try this toy out.
i can actually see me turning it into a fender bass with EB-3 guts (meaning that i'd most likely put a fender replacement neck on it).
i doubt that anything would make me happier.

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Epiphone Thunderbird V>>>>>Russian Big Pi Muff>>>>>EHX LPB-1 (sometimes slipped in to sound extra trashy)>>>>>1977 70W Fender Bassman (modded with EL-34's)>>>>>Ampeg SVT-15E

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I searched their site and couldn't find it! Rats! This idea is a big bee in my bonnet at the moment.
The epi EB-0 iand EB-3 are common, inexpensive basses on ebay, so maybe one could be harvested that way... are those pickups worthwhile? I very much like the tele headstock on this bass! The neck on my Squier is super and my hope would be that these necks would be good, too: maybe a little fret cleanup would be required, but that's easy to do at home.

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hollowbodies: 1960s kent americana - 1960s truetone speed-demon
solidbodies: 1996 fender standard james burton tele - 2005/6 squier deluxe trans strat
---> rat 2 + rat 2 + deluxe memory man + c.bread semaphore + e13 soda meiser + zvex lo-fi loop junky
OR (noisy, not true bypass at all) ---> 70s morley power fuzz wah + dod 490 phasor
---> randall commander 210 - epiphone valve junior - univox minimax u4100: 1x15

THE FALL: totally wired ++ THE FALL: big new prinz ++ THE FALL: bombast/crusiers creek
DEVO ++ THE DIRTBOMBS ++ THE KING BROTHERS

Looks really cool! I still regret not buying the Tele bass copy that I played in Santa Cruz one time a couple years back. Is the Squier only going to be made in sunburst?

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It appears that is is only available in sunburst. That said, it would be cool to paint over the sunburst - in olde-timey fender fashion - with a nitro solid color... dakota red on this would look grreeaatt! Guitar Reranch has some good advice about nitro-ing solid colors directly over an existing poly finish.

PS - Fritz Hell, your current youtube vids (stevie wonder, reverend gary davis, tv on the radio) are super!

edit: PICKUPS! I recall reading about these on GG in the past and they seem like a great, but expensive, option: Dark Star pickups

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hollowbodies: 1960s kent americana - 1960s truetone speed-demon
solidbodies: 1996 fender standard james burton tele - 2005/6 squier deluxe trans strat
---> rat 2 + rat 2 + deluxe memory man + c.bread semaphore + e13 soda meiser + zvex lo-fi loop junky
OR (noisy, not true bypass at all) ---> 70s morley power fuzz wah + dod 490 phasor
---> randall commander 210 - epiphone valve junior - univox minimax u4100: 1x15

THE FALL: totally wired ++ THE FALL: big new prinz ++ THE FALL: bombast/crusiers creek
DEVO ++ THE DIRTBOMBS ++ THE KING BROTHERS

it's called the SCPB-1 vintage for single coil p-bass

it's just an idea i'm toying with. i mean, the neck routing is already here, it's just a question of adding the four-way rotary switch and the bridge pickup.
i found them on allparts.co.uk at about 30 GBP.

and so it unravels

a Leo Quan badassII would also be on it, as would a tortoise pickguard.

it depends on what the neck would be like, my guess is that it's just like the neck on the New '51 - chunky, unfinished and "vintage".
i'd slap a new P-bass neck on it with a smile, though.

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Epiphone Thunderbird V>>>>>Russian Big Pi Muff>>>>>EHX LPB-1 (sometimes slipped in to sound extra trashy)>>>>>1977 70W Fender Bassman (modded with EL-34's)>>>>>Ampeg SVT-15E

Apples of Trees on myspace
Download Apples of Trees' EP "Valve Transistor Radio" for free via Rapidshare

This looks to be a cool pickup, but it is small, single-coil size as on the '51 P-Bass, as opposed to the big chrome-covered tele bass pickup. Two of those chrome monsters, as frecko describes, would, imho, look amazing on this bass!

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hollowbodies: 1960s kent americana - 1960s truetone speed-demon
solidbodies: 1996 fender standard james burton tele - 2005/6 squier deluxe trans strat
---> rat 2 + rat 2 + deluxe memory man + c.bread semaphore + e13 soda meiser + zvex lo-fi loop junky
OR (noisy, not true bypass at all) ---> 70s morley power fuzz wah + dod 490 phasor
---> randall commander 210 - epiphone valve junior - univox minimax u4100: 1x15

THE FALL: totally wired ++ THE FALL: big new prinz ++ THE FALL: bombast/crusiers creek
DEVO ++ THE DIRTBOMBS ++ THE KING BROTHERS

my bad... i got confuzzled.

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Epiphone Thunderbird V>>>>>Russian Big Pi Muff>>>>>EHX LPB-1 (sometimes slipped in to sound extra trashy)>>>>>1977 70W Fender Bassman (modded with EL-34's)>>>>>Ampeg SVT-15E

Apples of Trees on myspace
Download Apples of Trees' EP "Valve Transistor Radio" for free via Rapidshare

mmm... confuzzled... that's a nice way to be

Imagine putting an old Gibson Thunderbird pickup - the nickel covered one - in the middle position of this bass and then just adding a toggle switch. IMAGINE IT!! I am... and it is cool!

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hollowbodies: 1960s kent americana - 1960s truetone speed-demon
solidbodies: 1996 fender standard james burton tele - 2005/6 squier deluxe trans strat
---> rat 2 + rat 2 + deluxe memory man + c.bread semaphore + e13 soda meiser + zvex lo-fi loop junky
OR (noisy, not true bypass at all) ---> 70s morley power fuzz wah + dod 490 phasor
---> randall commander 210 - epiphone valve junior - univox minimax u4100: 1x15

THE FALL: totally wired ++ THE FALL: big new prinz ++ THE FALL: bombast/crusiers creek
DEVO ++ THE DIRTBOMBS ++ THE KING BROTHERS

well, i'm imagining getting the existing pickup rewound, slapping in a jazz bridge pickup, rewound to EB-3ish bridge pickup specs, full EB-3 electronics and a tortoise pickguard.
perhaps a jazz bass neck, for the rosewood, i suppose.

deus ex gitara

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Epiphone Thunderbird V>>>>>Russian Big Pi Muff>>>>>EHX LPB-1 (sometimes slipped in to sound extra trashy)>>>>>1977 70W Fender Bassman (modded with EL-34's)>>>>>Ampeg SVT-15E

Apples of Trees on myspace
Download Apples of Trees' EP "Valve Transistor Radio" for free via Rapidshare

It's priced like the other vintage modified basses: ~$279.

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hollowbodies: 1960s kent americana - 1960s truetone speed-demon
solidbodies: 1996 fender standard james burton tele - 2005/6 squier deluxe trans strat
---> rat 2 + rat 2 + deluxe memory man + c.bread semaphore + e13 soda meiser + zvex lo-fi loop junky
OR (noisy, not true bypass at all) ---> 70s morley power fuzz wah + dod 490 phasor
---> randall commander 210 - epiphone valve junior - univox minimax u4100: 1x15

THE FALL: totally wired ++ THE FALL: big new prinz ++ THE FALL: bombast/crusiers creek
DEVO ++ THE DIRTBOMBS ++ THE KING BROTHERS

I am so showing that to my friend who is learning Bass, he's been looking for just the right started bass, and that seems like it would fit him

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Too cool! I really like the old Tele basses, mud and all.

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