Olp fretless?
Pt
I was considering putting a fretless neck on it rather than buying
another bass.
I would like to be able to switch back to the original fretted neck if
I wanted to.
Are there any fretless necks available that will fit an Olp?
If I were to use a P or J bass neck how much modification would be
needed?
Thanks..
pt
Derek Tearne
> I hve an Olp MM 4 string.
> I was considering putting a fretless neck on it rather than buying
> another bass.
Most replacement necks seem to be Fender style 20/21 fret - Music Man
style 22 fret necks seem to be fairly rare. Furthermore, although the
OLP basses are very closely based on actual music man basses I'd be
surprised if necks for a Music Man were an exact fit.
Consider the price of decent replacement necks from places like Warmoth
or Allparts (not that they do a music man replacement neck anyway) -
you're looking north of $200 for a decent replacement neck - not that
much different from the original price for an OLP.
So in your situation I'd seriously consider getting another OLP of eBay
just for the neck - de-fretting it - adding the extra pickup to the bass
and on-selling the remaining parts on ebay.
--- Derek
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Pt
> So in your situation I'd seriously consider getting another OLP of eBay
> just for the neck - de-fretting it - adding the extra pickup to the bass
> and on-selling the remaining parts on ebay.
>
> --- Derek
Good thinking.
Thanks.
Pt
Steve Freides
I'd just buy a fretless on ebay. I paid $110 for my Dean 4-string
fretless and it plays and sounds great.
-S-
Jose de las Heras
"Pt" <pea...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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amazing coincidence...
I'm looking for another OLP to turn it fretless!
well, not much of a coincidence if one reads the message properly, other
than it deals with "fretless" and "OLP"... but there you go...
Jose
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Over the years on agb I've noted the rise and fall of OLP
basses, and it's a shame they're extinct. In recent years
I've watched the odd OLP on ebay but they hold their price
too well for me to dip my toe for a bargain. I'm puzzled as
to how OLP missed a great opportunity to rival Japanese
Jazzes in 'market' esteem.
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SR
Derek Tearne
> Over the years on agb I've noted the rise and fall of OLP
> basses, and it's a shame they're extinct. In recent years
> I've watched the odd OLP on ebay but they hold their price
> too well for me to dip my toe for a bargain. I'm puzzled as
> to how OLP missed a great opportunity to rival Japanese
> Jazzes in 'market' esteem.
It's a real shame. The OLP concept was great, but just a little too
clever. If you 'knew' that OLP stood for 'officially licensed product'
and who the products were licensed from it all made sense. If you
didn't the OLP name and logo had no obvious connection to the parent
companies. The parent companies themselves didn't have to go through
the effort of creating a new company etc, and they avoided brand
dilution by having a similar name.
Fender, on the other hand, created a brand name Squier (actually revived
an old brand name) which had a 'Fender like' logo so, from a distance,
it looked like Fender. Although this does have a certain brand dilution
effect it also has a much bigger brand confusion effect - and that seems
to work better. In fact now, with the better Squier instruments being
higher quality than the lower end Fender instruments it's just too
confusing for words - so people just buy more instruments!!
Music Man had the problem that their low end Music Man instruments
(S.U.B) were no better than their off brand instruments (O.L.P) which
were additionally cheaper. So anybody who thought about it would buy
the OLP. Especially with active OLP basses like the Tony Levin and the
final models.
So, they've decided to follow the same brand confusion route that works
so well for Fender and others.
We now have Music Man 'Sterling' basses, that are 'real' Music Man
basses with a different shape to the old StingRays, and 'Sterling by
Music Man' basses that are roughly equivalent to the OLP basses but
look more like the 'real' ones than the SUB line did - and everyone is
entirely confused - when they eventually bring out the sterling by
musicman sterling I think the universe will explode...
When the Japanese Squier instruments first hit the market it was many
years before the 'cheap stuff from Japan' stigma started to drop. I'm
sure the people who bought them realised they were great from the
outset, but the feeling that they were actually never worse than, and
often superior to USA made Fenders didn't really catch hold until maybe
a decade later - and at that point Fender started making Fender Japan
instruments. OLP never had that length of time to get into the public
imagination.
Maybe in a few years time basses like the TL model will become
considered collectors items and start fetching high prices. Which would
be ironic as I bought mine so I'd have a completely non-collectible bass
and could leave the collectors item basses at home...