Extending the Life of an Old Fender Precision| Guitar Detailing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2024
- Hey friends, today there is a new video on the channel about an old Fender Precision 1976 that was in a very bad condition.
The strings were changed in the last millennium, the electronics did not work properly, the nut was installed in the other direction, the bridge is completely rusty and the frets are in a terrible condition.
I invite you to review how to solve these problems and extend the life of your instrument for many years to come.
Thank you for watching! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
This is quite relaxing to watch. Almost meditative.
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What an awesome bass. Totally deserves the love you put into it. Great job.
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Best part was the tiny Dremmel pad.....and then the HUGE buffing pad !!!!! Love watching this on a cold Saturday morning, drinking a cup of coffee - very carthartic. Thank you and beautiful work too!
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Very nice. So happy you kept the patina of the body intact!
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Hey glad ur back with another one! Dig all your stuff, from your #1 Canadian fan, rock on! P
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Good work! I like your editing style too, straight to point with no nonsense.
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Amazing work and amazing result!!!
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Beautiful work, I learned so much…
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Glad it was helpful!
A nice job completed! The bass sounds great.
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You definitely know what to do and how to do it. And much better than me...! So, I'm not criticizing but... I wouldn't touch the patina on the chrome or Nickel parts, not even on the screws. And maybe a contact cleaner could preserve the original pots, while a brief remelting of the soldered points could have preserved the original wiring. What I would have done was a paraffin/wax bath of the PuPs, as old ones may become a bit microphonic (but I guess you tested them and it wasn't the case). Thumbs up for the skilled job!
Esse P Bass renovado, é lindo de ver, e seu trabalho nele é digno de 👏👏👏 !
Beautiful vintage instrument, great job
That’s a great job! You kept the bass soul. Lovely work
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Really nice job on this gorgeous P-bass (especially with the rust.)
I hope the current owner will take good care of her!
Amazing and Beautiful Well Done Work!!!!!!! 🤙🤙🤙🤙
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Perfeito.
Ficou lindo.
Obrigado!
I owned one. same years rosewood fretboard SN 76 524XX sound amazing fantastic. Thanks video
I love the Fender of those years, although the paintwork is one of the worst
Masterful job
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Awesome work
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God bless you 🙂🙂
Don't catch a cold...And great job on that Precision Bass...
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I have (had- my son has it) a '76 Jazz I got for "$200 at a music store that someone had painted brown with latex house paint and a brush. Dead neck pickup, and pretty beat in general. I took it apart and sanded it down, then painted it metallic bronze with a rattle can, wet sanded then clear coated it and buffed it out. It was cold in the shop, so the clear crackled like an old Gibson with the brittle lacquer. I kept it because it looked right. I got a new set of pickups and cleaned the pots and jack, and it was a decent Jazz for many years and tours in the States and Europe. I'm a Precision guy, and the thin Jazz nut end never appealed to me. My '64 Dakota Red P Bass is the best ever, even sporting it's very worn but original frets. My '72 Black Precision just got some reworking because I got a call to do a big festival set after being retired from music for almost 20 years. There's not a full rout between the pickup set and pots like this, but a hole drilled between. The capacitor solder joint somehow broke, so fixing it was a breeze. I also swapped the input jack because cleaning wouldn't make the connection clean when plugged in for some reason. Whatever, it works now. I'm not polishing any of the chrome, including the pickup and bridge cover. It's old and beat, just like me. But it sounds great, and it'll shine like it always did. Nice job with this one.
....I hate that RotoSound stopped winding the tuner ends of the strings in red on the "Swing Bass" set. 45-105. That was my preferred brand and gauge, so that's what I bought. I considered putting the 1990s set back on, but I thought better of it.
Parts in the ultrasonic cleaner should always be placed in the supplied basket so the parts are not in direct contact with the tank wall. If the basket is lost or unavailable, you can place the parts in a glass jar with some cleaning solution, then submerged in the tank.
You are a pro 👍
Amazing!!
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FANTASTIC JOB, appreciate the ride along!!!!! What did you spray on the neck for clean up after all the work?
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It’s white spirit
Kerosene or anti-silicone will also work
Love it 🔥🔥🔥
Amazing.
By the way wich tuner do you use?
Very nice.
In general, the absolute first thing to do, especially for bass of that vintage and condition, is to check the condition of the neck for the straightness and functionality of the truss rod. That's potentially the least fixable or most complicated aspect to repair. (Perhaps you did that first but didn't show)
I'd replace the pots with new CTS solid shaft (metal, not plastic) 250K pots, replace the Switchcraft jack, and keep that original capacitor--and it looks like that's what you did.👍🏼
That mid-'70s ash body--heavy? (just curiosity)
Bless you. Did they produce necks in Armenia?
Very much enjoyed watching that video. Did you put the tuners in the bath too ?
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Nope, there were no such traces of rust on them
Quedó precioso great job
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Really enjoyed that, great job, what did you put on the body to clean it
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Fantástico!
So well done! I did (almost) the same with the corpse of a sunburst J-bass that, at the end of the process, turned out to be a nice one. I had paied 30 €...
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How satisfying....
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Nice job! What did you use to clean and polish the body? I have a '79 Strat with the identical burst and wear pattern but everything I try to use to clean it softens the finish and removes it in little beads, even clear water. Any ideas?
in those years Fender used an incredibly lousy varnish, I experimented a lot with how to polish it the only thing that gave a good result was wax with the addition of white spirit.
Thanks for share your experience, please can you tell me what equipment is that you use and the liquid for retire the rush of all hardware.?
It’s distilled water + alkali in ultrasonic cleaner
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also tomorrow is my friends birthday also my birthday ❤❤❤❤❤❤😅😊😊😊😅😊
But why not clean the pick-guard when all of the hardware was off of it? 🤔
We decided that we would replace it after a while
The road warn look is a testament to its long life of playing music.
@@alecmachuca7111 if anyone questions the bass' credentials, they can be directed to this video.
@@sagittated I like the road warn look. That's all I'm saying.
@@alecmachuca7111Road WORN.
I have seen this asked twice, but the response wasn't an answer.
Why did you open up the potentiometers?
the old potentiometers were worn out, we replaced them with new ones while preserving the original cap, the production date was indicated on the cap, we wanted to keep it
@@mr.k1t Brilliant idea!
I had a p bass that I bought from an old mass bassist around 1970. It had no serial number.
7:43 What liquid did you pour into the container with the oxide pieces, and did you connect it to electricity?
alkali and yes it was connected to electricity
Bless you on your sneeze 🤧
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What’s that machine with the blue lid that cleaned all the chrome hardware? I need one of those.
Ultra sonic cleaner
Дуже гарна робота. Сам деякий час захоплювався гитарами
Дякую!
Anyone know what song he plays???
I didn't understand why you opened the potentiometers to close them back ? what was the point ? thanks
to preserve old caps, they are marked with the production date
@@mr.k1t ??
@@larryn2682They wanted to preserve the original production dates stamped on the original pots so they switched the covers. The original pots were worn out.
Could you please tell us what you put in that parts cleaner mechanisim? Water and vinegar? And how long did it run approximately?
Alkali and distilled water
15 min + 20 min in the end
What was the stuff you poured in the bucket??
Distilled water and alkali
How did you remove the rust?
Distilled water + alkali
Why does the neck heel has ‚ARMENIA’ stamp?
I can't even imagine😁
That last name of a Fender employee back in the seventies.
Че ж бас Дениса Дудко з ОЕ! Може вже не його але він на ньому грав багато років :)
Його)
At least, the frets shoud be changed.... I guess....
What happened to the sound after the 10th minute? Am I the only one who noticed? Good job anyway
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What is the cost of having this done?
~250$
usually, when leo sees from heaven doing these jobs, he turns over in his grave a few times. this time he finally saw a job done well! congratulations 🤙🤙🤙
😁Thanks!
Whoever allowed this P-Bass to get into that condition doesn’t deserve to own one.
P r o m o s m
Fake 67 fender bass
why do you think so?🤔
I THINK YOU'RE A FAKE!!!!
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Damn, you lost me at changing the potentiometer's internals, and went away when seeing you broke the nut.
the nut was cracked, watch the video 🙃🙃
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO
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what was your final string height at 12th fret ? how much relief at 6th fret when holding down 1st and 12th fret ? thanks
I make the neck almost straight
the final height here was 2mm on the 4th string and 1.7mm on the first