Fender Precision BONER Bass Guitar 1992

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[@samlelowitch]

The elongated upper horn exists in order to counteract neck dive when played with a strap. The knobs on the bridge are definitely intended as fine-tuners to make small adjustments to the pitch of each string. I used to own an early-90s version of this bass in blueburst. Made in Germany because Schaller actually manufactures these bridges and tuners on this particular model.

[@MikeJ6129]

Fender used those bridges under license from Schaller on their upscale basses during that time.

[@NinerFourWhiskey]

Lace Sensor pickups - you can put them as close to the strings as you like, as long as they don't collide. Weak magnets, no string pull, no hum. Schaller Bridge from the 80-90s.

[@russellmorgan5611]

All the hallmarks of the Elite series from '83-'84.

[@johnpillow481]

The knobs on the bridge are probably mutes as on your other favorite German ancestral manufacturer!

[@stewsim]

Schaller has made a lot of hardware for Fender. When you see “Made In Germany” on guitar hardware, it’s a safe guess that it’s by Schaller. Same for a lot of Gibson hardware…

[@gmartin167]

Yep, Schaller made almost all tuners for Fender USA after Kluson closed down. May have made the bridges, too. Gotoh made the hardware for the Japanese stuff.

[@georgechapogas1054]

Hector made several of my necks and I believe later worked in the reopened custom shop.

[@johnconstantinides]

Hector Montes and Herbie Gastellum closely worked together to assemble those 22-fretters.

[@Nerotique]

Dave is the unorthodox Bob Ross of the bass and guitar repair world. You're the best Dave. I love your videos.

[@Woods_Hiker]

Love watching you rescue guitars. If they could talk, they'd thank you

[@artrogers3985]

WOW David. Is it my birthday? Two late night videos. Thank you sir. No comment on the Boner bass except is is long and exciting!

[@konkonidaris8469]

I used to own a Precision Bass Plus just like that one only black in colour. 1. The horns of the Boner Bass were elongated to allow access to the 22 fret neck snd still have it balance like a regular PBass over the 12th fret. 2. Bridge was made under licence by Schaller in Germany and yes those thumbscrews are fine tuners, they often go missing, so its a good job that the bass still has them, as they actually work quite well. 3. The push pull switch is a series parallel switch for the split coil P pickup. 4. The centre off tone control is a TBX control designed to simulate cut and boost treble in a passive circuit. 5. The Lace Sensor silver pickups were low noise single coil designed with a weaker magnetic field so they can go as close to the strings as a player would like. IMO they actually sound quite good. I recently sold mine and regret letting it go, all up a decent but heavy bass.

[@erickleefeld4883]

Yeah, Lace Sensors can get closer to the strings than conventional pickups. But if the strings are actually grinding against the pickup covers, you’ve gone too close!

[@konkonidaris8469]

@@erickleefeld4883 absolutely agree

[@johnconstantinides]

The Plus Deluxe employed a downsized back-routed alder body and a Kubicki-designed 2-band EQ with master volume, pickup pan, active treble and bass controls; the jack was side-mounted and the headstock slimmed down. This bass was the forerunner of the American Deluxe with the humbucking Jazz Bass bridge pickup which replaced the line in July of 1995.

[@konkonidaris8469]

@@johnconstantinides mine was the Precision Bass Plus, I believe the Plus Deluxe was a higher end model with active electronics. Mine was exactly the same as the bass in the video. The TBX circuit in both my bass and the one in this video was passive. I remember taking it apart when I first bought it as I had mistakenly thought the bass was active due to the push on off switch between the volume and tone pot, only to discover that it's a series parallel switch for the Lace sensor P pickup. My bass was identical to the bass in this video except for the colour, this one is natural, mine was black. I had recently traded it for a high end Japanese bass from the 90s. But the Plus Deluxe and the Plus are different models.

[@jafo1970]

As always, a pleasure seeing a master at work. Thanks for the vid!

[@DavesWorldofFunStuff]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@TheAxe4Ever]

Master? 😂

[@50beowulf]

Schaller made those bridges for Fender starting in the 80's for the Elite series of basses. The best thing you can do with it is remove the fine tuners and put them in a bag in the case. Other than the fine tuners, the bridge is fine. Check the tuning machines, they may be Schaller as well.

[@snafu1957]

Old Schaller bass bridge.

[@MarkTurner-vs7uc]

The sensors sound great when you get them as close to the strings as you can on the 6 string guitars. It's sort of a secret.

[@22Pachanga]

Sensors, huh?

[@rickmccl71]

@@22Pachanga Yes, @9:48 "Lace Sensors" you can google it

[@PhilDietz]

the buddy guy strat has laces and the setup guide says "touching" for the neck, and 3/64 for the middle and bridge. Way closer than a normal strat thats 5/64 or 6/64

[@murphvienna1]

The number of times I was thinking "Last Night A GroovBar Saved My Life", I should make a shirt out of it - those things were an absolute gamechanger. And as others already commented, the Schaller hardware is a time capsule.

[@mightyV444]

I'd once had a US-made Hamer 'Blitz' bass from the early 80's which also had Schaller hardware from Germany ('3-D' bridge and 'M4' tuning machines), and it had also read 'Made in Germany' on the bridge's underside and 'Hamer' on top, plus an 'H' in the typical Hamer font on the back of each tuner 🙂

[@ronaldsmith8966]

Just like the Free-Flyte bridges found on the 80’s Elite Strats, Teles, & P-Basses. Schaller still makes OEM bridges for several companies.

[@mightyV444]

@@ronaldsmith8966 - I don't remember the 'Free-Flyte' name but will definitely recognise those bridges when I do a photo search in a moment 😄

[@mikaso]

Fender had to come up with something, to make it look like they were also innovative, like Leo over at MM. Like that bridge.

[@petedazer3381]

You can set lace sensors as close to the strings as you can stand, but that might’ve been pushing it

[@mikefirth302]

That thumb thing is a fine tuner. Where have you been man.

[@DavesWorldofFunStuff]

not looking at over engineered junk

[@chrisghiardi117]

Tone knob probably TBX that gets a bit brighter.

[@RaymondoGalfredi]

Dave would you be willing to do a video essay with the title "These Days It Is Cheaper To Buy A New Guitar Than Get A Setup"?

[@indignow]

90's were a crazy decade. Berlin wall fell off and Fender started loving schaller manufacturing bass guitar bridges. OMG. Back to the repair, haven't seen any fret job, wasn'it necessary?

[@CarlCumby]

The long horn basses! They're actually collectible, believe it or not there's a whole niche market for these things, especially the long horn jazz basses.

[@crasheenarino]

Keep her lit Dave! Double video - nice!

[@richardinnocente4527]

Did a mouse run under the neck when you said “Cooties”?

[@cajunqueen5125]

Congrats on 150K!

[@DavesWorldofFunStuff]

Thank you so much 😀

[@erickleefeld4883]

There are so many over-engineered bass bridges, when all you really need to improve the ‘50s Fender design is to have little grooves on the plate for the saddle height screws to sit in. That way, the saddle can’t wiggle around horizontally. This bridge has got that, at least - but then it throws in a lot more stuff you don’t need.

[@chele-chele]

When your wood has wood...

[@paullawson8610]

Nice looking bass

[@daveanno754]

I think we've all wiggled our wigglers beyond belief at some point in our lives.

[@Gratefulman1965]

Schaller elite fine tuning bridge. No thanks I’ll pass. Resurrect it Dave!

[@Lawmanxxx]

I don't recognize it but I wonder if that bridge is a Schaller?

[@GoonSquadLifeMember]

I'm certain it is; looks like other Schaller devices I've seen, just not made to Fender spec like this specimen. All told, Fender put out some good stuff in the 90s!

[@patrickwilliams3108]

Yep. It's the Schaller Elite Fine-Tuning Bridge.

[@manonbassguitar]

Amps on

[@winkydee]

Had the same bass in the early 90s, in a midnight blue metallic burst. It had a Brazilian Rosewood neck and the Schaller High Mass bridge with fine tuning. That's how they came and I saw a lot of them end up on the used market over the years, likely because I was looking for one again, haha

[@ThunderBassistJay]

Great shirt! 😂

[@stoutlager6325]

Weird. That looks like something Peavey would make.

[@Ben_Mdws]

They really didn’t need to make the parts on a P bass complicated.

[@bobrocke3538]

Boner basses were the answer to questions almost nobody was asking. 1) should we make a 22 fret neck? 2) now that we cut out all that wood for the 22 fret neck, how do we stop neck diving, should we stretch out the upper horn a couple of inches? 3) hey you know we've had that same old bridge that works perfectly, wouldn't it be cool to make something new? Maybe Schaller could create something different, maybe fine tuners like an old fiddle? They're still good basses, but nothing about them was an improvement on what Fender was already doing.

[@ShannonFerguson]

"Made in Germany. Of course!" 😂

[@peterburi2727]

The pickup configuration says Jazz Bass.

[@mastercraft5798]

I think it says PJ bass.

[@mightyV444]

LOL! @ "Barnyard Engineering" 😂

[@Invading-Specious]

Bigger guitar,. Bigger noise.😊

[@catzdollz9810]

What kind of DIP takes all the corrosion off Dave?

[@DavesWorldofFunStuff]

water ultra sonic cleaner

[@larryzink8978]

you put the nut on backwards? Strings dont track properly down the length of the neck

[@DavesWorldofFunStuff]

wtf?

[@Hulkamania3683]

I thought schaller parts came from Germany?

[@ltgray2780]

Dave, I just bought a mint Sterling Sub Series Stingray, $232USD to my door, to teach my stepson(I'm a guitarist). What are your preferred brand of bass strings? Thanks.

[@mightyV444]

I'm pretty sure they are Rotosound Swing Bass 66, 45~105 gauge 🙂

[@ltgray2780]

@@mightyV444 Thanks. I think I recall Dave talking about Rotosounds. (Hard to remember. I watch too much YT).

[@mightyV444]

@@ltgray2780 - You're welcome! 😊 I'd joined a band only last month and replaced my bass strings for my first gig with them last Friday; I had considered Rotosounds, which I hadn't used in yonks and in favour of D'Addario Pro Steels, but the store didn't have any, so I stuck with D'Addarios.

[@ltgray2780]

@@mightyV444 Do the stainless steel strings chew up the frets? I'm a guitar player and bend a lot and would never put stainless steel strings on my axes with nickel frets. Maybe different with bass frets? Thanks for your help.

[@mightyV444]

​@@ltgray2780 - I can't say I've had any problems with the Pro Steel strings, but I'd also not played very regularly for a number of years before recently joining this band (during which I'd also played a lot of guitar), but it may then actually be an advantage that these new bass strings are Nickel Wounds, and not Pro Steels 🙂

[@artrogers3985]

What does the push/push switch do?

[@DavesWorldofFunStuff]

who fukin' knows

[@stewsim]

Probably series/parallel for the middle position…

[@patrickwilliams3108]

It's a series/parallel switch for the neck pups.

[@artrogers3985]

Thanks one and all.

[@GaryPelow]

I think I fukin' know. The tone control is a dual pot. The switch likely toggles between the two changing the characteristics of the tone control.

[@jeffreyg4626]

What liquid do you use on the dip Dave?

[@DavesWorldofFunStuff]

water

[@mattutt2888]

Guitars had clunky over engineered Floyd rose bridges, they wanted to give bass a silly bridge too.

[@jamesadams1064]

Be careful saying "came" around ye’ old Boner Bass. That’s a nice looking bass shaped object. Thanks Canuck.

[@tactileson]

I can do you one better than 'Made In Germany'. I have an 1984 Squier stratocaster, made in Japan, with original tuners that are stamped as 'Made in West Germany'! Talk about a relic with political history.

[@paj1015]

Is it your amp making that annoying background noise? Please turn off! ;-)