NBD...?
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 6:35 am
Okay, what's:
- Pink,
- Fun,
- Cheap,
- Offset,
- Short scale,
- Virtually impossible to find in this color at this point,
- Mine since this morning?
...A Squier Bronco bass FSR Shell Pink
I blame Flurko's recent thread for this
I've been low-key GASing for a Bronco bass for years, keeping an eye on ads for a dirt cheap one to pop up locally. Then last year the shell pink FSR came out and apparently flew off the shelves... I only heard about it after it went out of stock at all the major European online stores. Bummer.
Flurko's thread rekindled the GAS and I went on an online chase for a shell pink one. One day during my lunch break at work I located one in a French shop and several more in a Czech one... and by the time I got back home in the evening they were all gone I finally tracked this one down in Portugal. The store had a weird checkout process in which you submit your order and wait for the store to get back to you with an invoice and shipping options, and it took them a week to reply ― at which point I had all but given up hope on it.
But it finally arrived this morning... and it's amazing
I'm considering changing the pickup (although I haven't decided what for yet), and possibly the bridge and tuners. Not because they suck, but because this bass is such a fun modding platform.
- Pink,
- Fun,
- Cheap,
- Offset,
- Short scale,
- Virtually impossible to find in this color at this point,
- Mine since this morning?
...A Squier Bronco bass FSR Shell Pink
I blame Flurko's recent thread for this
I've been low-key GASing for a Bronco bass for years, keeping an eye on ads for a dirt cheap one to pop up locally. Then last year the shell pink FSR came out and apparently flew off the shelves... I only heard about it after it went out of stock at all the major European online stores. Bummer.
Flurko's thread rekindled the GAS and I went on an online chase for a shell pink one. One day during my lunch break at work I located one in a French shop and several more in a Czech one... and by the time I got back home in the evening they were all gone I finally tracked this one down in Portugal. The store had a weird checkout process in which you submit your order and wait for the store to get back to you with an invoice and shipping options, and it took them a week to reply ― at which point I had all but given up hope on it.
But it finally arrived this morning... and it's amazing
I'm considering changing the pickup (although I haven't decided what for yet), and possibly the bridge and tuners. Not because they suck, but because this bass is such a fun modding platform.