Fender Telecaster Bass Possibly

[@Empyrean55]

The Tele bass is by far my favourite style

[@ConstantineIsslamow]

"I got dragged through a bush backwards" Love it. Cheers

[@jinx0192]

I get a laugh, and learn something new in every video. Good stuff.

[@SkyscraperGuitars]

Cardboard springs... CLASSIC!

[@charliejacobsmusic8410]

The special effects in the intro was a nice touch 👌

[@johnvenditto2908]

Love the ever-present toe-tapping whenever blues runs are played Dave.

[@brianhays4817]

That Bird loves to be in the movie too!! Must be spring in Chanukastan

[@gigi-n-chris8368]

Great looking Bass...... and Dave returned it to glory! Go Dave!!

[@Balin93]

Love the Deep Purple and Sabbath bass lines you pick to test

[@JustinC905]

I want one. Whether phony or not, looks and sounds like a great instrument after the surgeon has done his work. Nice job.

[@jimkalfakis9893]

Geezis! The action is so high, you can shoot arrows with it!

[@TommyMarshall17]

I was having a craptastic time tonight until I saw I could watch Dave work on a craptastic bass. Thanks for making my day much better and forget stupid crap that's in it.

[@bandpassmess]

I’m almost certain Dave could turn a table leg and a cedar stump into a bass . Amazing into from the legend 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@54tristin]

He does it all so effortlessly !🙂

[@andrewreynolds2647]

Great job Dave yet again. Love this.

[@eml5086]

Great video - thanks, Dave. I've had a '69 Tele Bass since, well, 1969. I hate to say it, but... it's been on a stand in my living room for 20 years. I'm sure it's a set-up mess by now. At least I know what to look for. Need to look for a good tech. Thanks again!

[@deepwater2652]

Great video, Dave. That bass rocks!

[@zarchy55]

Turned out real nice!

[@johnsimms3957]

Nice sounding bass. Good job!

[@rallypoint1]

Love the “football” jack on it!! Lots better than the ‘51 style.

[@kita17n]

omygawd i'm dyin' !!! you crack me up dave !!!! awesome-my first bass was a 69' tele bass but the bridge cover was actually a pickup cover. the bridge was exposed-that's weird eh-moose-michigan

[@Attercop47]

it's like watching a surgeon reattach somebodies leg and person gets up and does a couple laps around the operating table

[@Sid-np3hf]

The reanimator

[@ZodiacEntertainment2]

Indeed. Dave the miracle worker!

[@fc7896]

"While I'm pontificating" "Get the exterminator" Sounds great, Dave. ;o)

[@guygordon2780]

I was *so* expecting Dave to laugh or cry when we saw the cardboard under the pickup!

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

Cool looking bass !

[@artisan337]

Probably a “Modern Player” model from China. Subbed!

[@EXHUMEnCONSUME]

Nope. Early 1968 Telecaster Bass. Real deal. EDIT: nope! my bad. The tuners and truss rod adjustment at the headstock are wrong. Early 68's DID have that weird headstock logo though.

[@craigbrowning9448]

Gooch-A-Caster.

[@casperboo5465]

Great Job Dave, Cheers

[@steveellis6090]

Congratulation !!...You have a Squire Telecaster Bass on your hands, and yes , a Chinese special.

[@francescosodia6590]

Maybe squier Indonesian Tb (with 51 pickup added)

[@danoconnor618]

Great one dave

[@donhill3rd]

Early 68 Fender logo. They did have it on the very earliest tele basses in 68

[@larryn2682]

From the land of Ali Express.

[@davechandler6884]

His stash fromback in "Naam"!.

[@zefallenmadonnavizzebigboo1017]

Nice one Dave.

[@radducku]

Thanks for the video Dave...! Did not know Fender made bass kits..unless this is a knock off with a decal and a bogus serial number on the neck plate lol Nice job and this ain't half bad lil' ole bass either...I am surprised you were able to intonate it so good with those old school, imperfect saddles but it does sound good and very balanced ! Good one and waiting for the next video again. BTW the Penny Black album sounds great! Can't pick a favourite yet...Very impressed to see u co writing all but one of the tracks! Did u use a 6 string guitar in the process(as in came up with riffs and such) or just contributed lyrics? Surprisingly well produced, recorded and mixed and makes one wonder why on earth u guys didn't release/promote/distribute it 17 years ago? Is it the"Live in Canada" curse or what? You guys ROCK!

[@radducku]

so good old fashion collab then...it does sound that good!

[@radducku]

Dang, sorry to hear that I bought Lateralus by Tool in 2001...can't remember much from that long ago but I still buy CDs to this day! I am old fashion I guess... Hell If I can get you and Russell to sign it for me I will buy another Penny Black CD!!!

[@radducku]

Super rad!!

[@garyheighway7635]

Oh this is going to be a fun one.

[@jimeb2jim256]

The decal is as phony as can be, but it is pretty cool that someone made that. The very first batch of Telecaster basses used that. Fender stuck a clipped off Coronado Bass decal on the end of the guitar decal.

[@frozencancukfinearts]

Hi Dave from Vancouver.

[@MaliVinnyB]

Speaking of Truss-rods..I broke my Millenium 5's Truss-rod..Stripped..is it Even Worth getting it repaired???

[@guitarrepairandmaintenance4741]

Looks like it plays nice now.

[@jpizzleforizzle]

when you loosened the strings I could swear the neck visibly moved... holy shit...

[@doyrayburn2668]

Tele Bass! Love em.

[@johnlindsey9915]

The output jack looked like the valve cover on my Jeep when the chipmunk moved in for the winter.

[@ramblr1959]

Isint this just a first gen style p-bass? Tele basses have the mud-bucker at the neck.

[@pilummurialis6490]

That's the single cutaway version with a mud bucker

[@ramblr1959]

Fender did not make a single cut tele bass. I ended up looking it up and the single coil is a renamed early precision made from 69-71. Then same body with mud-bucker from 72-79.

[@pilummurialis6490]

@@ramblr1959 oh right, I got it mixed up with the Squire basses, that's the one I'm thinking of

[@2drsdan]

Those new strings provided,,,, why didn't they just bring in steel cable? 3/8" for E, 5/16" for A, 1/4" for D, and 3/16" for G, perfect and the neck can handle it.

[@jdjk7]

2drsdan I use 55-110 La Bellas on my P Bass with no problem. I like them because i can pretty much abuse them without fear of them breaking, and it sounds great. The tension feels great in the hands. Don't have any problems with pitch bending or the strings just feeling wimpy. I have a Thunderbird with 100s or 105 rounds and they feel like toy strings.

[@johnf6288]

lol i thought you were going to do the barney miller theme for a second

[@johnf6288]

lol great.. you haven't done any Lizzy for a while either

[@gaoldias]

The Soylent Green input jack.....

[@kenwinston2245]

Yep . . . It makes a . . . noise ? I know this guy Dave, he can fix it 😃

[@melechwilliamsf.y.i.730]

It's Mike Dirnt's Bass From Green Day.

[@jerryrobertson7300]

He’s the best.......

[@Ben_Mdws]

Laughed a lot at 17:20!

[@dantanner1721]

Great video, my Brother from North of the border !

[@samlelowitch]

Is this a parts bass with a phony Fender decal or the real thing? That pickguard certainly looks aftermarket to me.

[@gregory7958]

This looks exactly like a knock off i've seen on Aliexpress last year, for about $ 250.00. It seems to be a good guitar for it's price, but I don't get the reason to put a decal on it.

[@samlelowitch]

Playing pretend?

[@jdjk7]

Hey man, 55-110s are great. I dunno about that set, but I use La Bellas in that size and they are great to play. They aren't flexible enough for fancy stuff but I don't do any fancy tapping or slap anyway. They're great for good tone.

[@literatetree8394]

jdjk7 great for no tone, the labella heavies give that jamerson sine wave tone. Sucks...

[@jdjk7]

Literatetree Sounds an awful lot like your problem... A Precision Bass with La Bella flats is the tone from which all other tones came, where bass guitar is concerned. If you can't appreciate it, the least you can do is respect it.

[@literatetree8394]

jdjk7 i just don't understand why anyone would want it. It makes the bass less of an instrument, and more of a function, to me.

[@Adamisgood24]

My Fender Jazz bass has foam under the pickups, and not springs.

[@gryzew]

Springs are better. The foam has limited adjustability in the first place, and over time it can get all fossilised under there and lose any counter-force properties. Foam is fine with wood mount pickups anyway but mainly so they're not all wiggly wonky especially for bass where you might use the pickup as a thumbrest, but a spring is what guarantees smooth, full range adjustability. On the slightly-angled neck (due to shimming) the average pickup foam would not allow to get the pickup close enough to the strings. tl;dr Springs are good, Dave obviously knows why.

[@richardfehr1838]

It's real and worth a couple of thousands

[@brianzimmerman4710]

Hey Dave, when are you getting in more t-shirts?

[@offbeatbassgear]

A strip of cardboard to buttress the pickup height: brilliant, recyclable and biodegradable also.

[@markviereck4547]

Tony knows that

[@jerryrobertson7300]

Dig the videos

[@SBDavin]

Corrugated cardboard pickup sponge. Apparently this bass was not considered "sponge worthy" by the previous luthier.

[@gryzew]

Did somebody stash their weed in the output jack and then forgot about it (as stoners are wont to do)?

[@crazyuncleduke8012]

What could possibly go wrong yet again? :-)

[@augiedoggie8814]

If memory serves a telecaster bass had a big ol' humbucker right behind the neck.If you walked into a club and saw one you knew it was a country band.

[@TheProJuicers1]

Yeah you're half right; There's two (or three if you count the squire tele bass that has the shape of a tele guitar) types of telecaster basses: the one with the fat humbucker that you described and then the single coil version which essentially is a 51 p bass with some body contours. The single coil tele basses were made around 1968 I believe and then the humbucker ones came around in the early seventies.

[@augiedoggie8814]

@@TheProJuicers1 I recall almost buying a humbucker version,but an older guy warned me about being unable to cut through so I saved up some more and got a P instead.

[@jerryrobertson7300]

Hank at rattlesnake cables

[@fishnknives2184]

Where's the h.

[@offbeatbassgear]

And happy weekend everyone and happy first post

[@seanoxton5572]

Hate when people put name brand stickers on some piece of junk. This thing will show up on Reverb or Ebay someday and some poor schlub will buy it thinking its a real Fender.

[@PNgaia33859]

our does wewl, meant

[@aurthorthing7403]

This is an abomination kit thing from hell!!! After some TLC.... Oh I like this... This in nice... I will play this.... I dig it.

[@TheWandOfOrcus]

Poor cable. He was innocent!

Not such a bad looking Chender.

[@jerryrobertson7300]

I sent a message to him....

[@billchestnut1238]

Phobia schobia lol...make a nice cricket bat!

[@jerryrobertson7300]

Call Hank at rattlesnake cables... fb and instagram

[@steveredenbaugh9058]

Kenya Coinage

[@Adam-zr4zk]

Thats a sears cheap copy lol

[@bryantcrawford214]

Isn't that a pawn shop model bass?I'm pretty sure it is and is real

[@sweettoof9002]

That’s just not a good bass guitar design. That pickup in the middle of nowhere gives you two sounds. Muddy and muddier.