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Gear Discussion Forums => Fender Basses => Topic started by: Blackbird on September 06, 2015, 05:38:20 AM

Title: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: Blackbird on September 06, 2015, 05:38:20 AM
Incoming!!!  Should be here in a coupla weeks.

https://reverb.com/item/498965-fender-custom-shop-dusty-hill-signature-precision-bass-relic-2012-s730
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: Dave W on September 06, 2015, 11:56:45 AM
You'll have to take the Minimalist Bass Player's Oath: "I promise to play the root, the whole root and nothing but the root, so help me Dusty Hill."
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: Highlander on September 06, 2015, 04:07:27 PM
That's a bugger... it's all scratched up...
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: Blackbird on September 06, 2015, 04:38:13 PM
I'll ask for a discount then.. ;)
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: Pilgrim on September 06, 2015, 05:12:22 PM
Isn't that the factory finish for that bass? They should throw in a free chisel and chainsaw in case you want to add to the ambience....
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: Blackbird on September 07, 2015, 02:56:34 AM
Isn't that the factory finish for that bass? They should throw in a free chisel and chainsaw in case you want to add to the ambience....

Yes..that's the finish from Fender custom shop

Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: nofi on September 07, 2015, 07:50:07 AM
glad you got the bass you wanted. i do wonder how the idea of a reliced dusty hill bass came about. all the basses i've seen him with are pretty clean looking, although i did see one with the wear marks above the pickup.
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: ilan on September 07, 2015, 08:20:18 AM
That is one of the coolest looking basses I have ever seen. If it plays as good as it looks, you've got a bass for life.
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: hieronymous on September 07, 2015, 10:16:01 AM
I love it! I love the Tele headstock in general, having it reversed works for me too. I do like the black one much better than the gold one.
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: drbassman on September 07, 2015, 10:36:09 AM
I like it too.  Enjoy!
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: Alanko on September 08, 2015, 06:31:50 AM
I put a lefty neck on my Jazz bass (which is also sporting PJ pickups and currently isn't working). Where did Dusty get the idea?
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: nofi on September 08, 2015, 07:00:26 AM
people have been doing that since the sixties both to basses and guitars.
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: Alanko on September 08, 2015, 07:28:08 AM
I gather Glenn Cornick did it out of necessity as he wore out the frets on his Jazz bass. Clearly a lefty neck in the Rock and Roll Circus video, but by 1969 he had another neck on there with a weird headstock.  :-\
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: tore00 on September 09, 2015, 01:16:35 PM
She remembers me something familiar. Mine has a little more chrome, that is always good ;)
(http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy5/tore00/SANY0005.jpg)
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: ilan on September 09, 2015, 10:05:38 PM
That's a lot of CDs.
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: Blackbird on September 10, 2015, 03:05:31 AM
She remembers me something familiar. Mine has a little more chrome, that is always good ;)
(http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy5/tore00/SANY0005.jpg)

You made that?? Nice job!.  And wow to the CDs...lol
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: tore00 on September 10, 2015, 04:49:00 AM
Yes, I did her and plays lovely. It has an overwound pickup done by myself that is killer. There are about 20000 cd and 4000 vinyls in my living room.
Here is the sister, also done by me, that growls even more
(http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy5/tore00/SANY0043.jpg)

and the true Fender Japan reissue
(http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy5/tore00/SANY0078.jpg)

and there is a Paisley one currently under construction
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: Highlander on September 10, 2015, 12:17:10 PM
 8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: Alanko on September 10, 2015, 01:41:01 PM
Here is my PJ bass. It must be Dusty!  8)

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y220/Meddled/image2_zps61c08040.jpg)

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y220/Meddled/image4_zpscea3df98.jpg)
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: Chris P. on September 11, 2015, 07:54:43 AM
I love the Dusty!!
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: tore00 on September 11, 2015, 01:38:31 PM
I really love the 51 single coil and the entire very first Fender bass concept. Never liked too much the split coil and "clankete clank" soud that forces me to put the tone knob to 0. I did myself some split coils. They sound good, but the the single coil sound is unsurpassed to my hearing.
Title: Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
Post by: uwe on October 27, 2015, 09:45:28 AM
Amen!