Guitars and Me #1: A Pair of Fender P-Basses

I have yet to make an #introduceyerself post - scrolling through my posts will reveal that I am here with musical purpose. Part of my life includes working on guitars and amps, and some of them have cool stories associated with them, so I have decided to post occasional guitar show-and-tell installments. I figure I may learn a few things about the guitars in my life from reading the comments. I'll kick it off with a pair of freshly restrung turn of the century era Fender MIM Precision Basses.

These are the house basses at The World Famous Buckingham Blues Bar, where I work as a sound guy and general purpose musician. We host open jams there on Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons, traveling blues acts are featured most weekends, and outside in the back yard we have another stage for our monthly-ish blues festivals. These guitars have a lot of hours on them! Jammers often bring their own instruments, but one of these always starts the day and ends it. I've been using them on some #openmic entries as well. They are set up pretty much the same, and they sound and feel similar. The burgundy one is in slightly better shape - the other one took a spill and smacked the neck real good. It darkened the tone a bit and made a visible line down the length of it, but it still stays in tune. It has two pennies standing in for the height adjustment screw on the G string, until I remember where I stashed the spares. I never learned what color that is - I've been referring to it as metallic notgreen. It is on the green side of grey. I sprayed the pots, cleaned the jacks, wiped them down, wound some strings on there and stretched the piss out of them, set the intonation and returned them to the bar. Come visit us and give one a try!