Fender Limited Edition Standard Precision Bass (MIM)

The Rock Bass I bought this bass used off a TalkBass member in February 2005. The original owner bought it in October 2004 from Guitar Center. "It is a special run made for Guitar Center. Only Natural finish MIM Precision I've ever seen." The serial number, MZ3xxxxx, means it was built in 2003/2004. Only 250 where made.

This is to be my "rock" bass. I disconnected the tone control, since I have more control at the amp anyway! I almost removed the volume control, but I use it to turn the bass off between sets.

Specs from Fender

Body	Ash
Neck	Maple, Modern “C” Shape, (Satin Polyurethane Finish)
Fingerboard	Rosewood (9.5" Radius)
No. of Frets	20 Medium Jumbo Frets
Pickups	1 Standard Precision Bass Split Single-Coil Pickup (Mid)
Controls	Volume, Tone
Bridge	Standard Vintage Style
Machine Heads	Standard
Hardware	Chrome
Pickguard	3-Ply White
Scale Length	34"
Width at Nut	1 5/8"
Introduced	7/2001

Upgrades/mods

Original owner:

Seymour Duncan Basslines SPB-3 Quarter-Pound for P pickups.
Black pearl pickguard.

Mine (in roughly chronological order):

Flatwound strings.
Black pickguard.
Thumbrest.
Rewired I:
- Quality volume pot.
- Disconnected tone pot and cap.
Rewired II:
- Added a thin aluminum sheet under pots and output jack as a ground plane.
- No wires to the backs of the pots!
- Removed unnecessary wiring.
Filed down fret ends.
New GraphTech Trem-nut.
On the original nut the slots where shifted towards the G string.

2006

Shielded.
Removed aluminum sheet.

2010

Hipshot Bass Xtender.
Tone control back in with 0.1uF cap.
Somewhere along the way I removed the thumbrest.

Feb 2010: All my planned mods are done, and it only took five years!

Most of the parts where purchased from guitarpartscanada.com.

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