FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Squier 40th Anniversary Precision Bass Guitar [Vintage Edition]

This is the Squier 40th Anniversary Precision Bass Vintage Edition in Dakota Red.
Beautiful, right? 😍
I got this budget bass from Musician's Friend for $220 new, but it was shipped from a Guitar Center. What do you think? Did I get a floor model? Did I get ripped off?
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I don't plan on doing a bass review since I am not a bass player. I would only feel comfortable reviewing a bass from the perspective of a guitar player, which I may do in the future.
Squier Precision Bass specs:
- Nyatoh (Nato) body wood
- Maple 34" scale length "C" shaped neck with 20 narrow tall frets
- Satin urethane neck finish
- 9.5" fretboard radius
- bone nut
- Fender® Designed Alnico Split Single-Coil pickup
- 1 volume and 1 tone knob
- 4-Saddle Vintage-Style bridge
- 1-Ply Gold Anodized Aluminum pickguard
- Aged chrome hardware
- Vintage style tuning machines
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[@andycornman783]

I got one of these for around 200 new from guitar center and threw Steve Harris pickups in it. Its amazing. Feels and plays better than a lot of the Mexi P basses I have played.

[@ArtOfShredYT]

Nice! 🤘

[@MrRudePolite]

Ah man I wanted this one! I ended up getting the blue one for the same price because the red one was about 400 bucks. Darn! No way I could’ve waited over a year for that deal though

[@ArtOfShredYT]

Impossible to know it would have gone on sale at such an incredible price. If I had seen blue at this price a year ago I'd have probably bought it too. Great bass so far! 🤘

[@markpell8979]

I bought a 'used' new guitar from the Oakdale, MN Guitar Center too. 2019 Epiphone Special I with P-90 pickups. Excellent condition, good as new really, plays and sounds fantastic. They said it was returned for store credit on another guitar by a regular customer who just didn't like the matte open-pore finish. I paid $119.99 + $20.50 shipping. All it needed was a setup and good strings. I also polished the frets and conditioned the fretboard. Great guitar. I really lucked out. Your P-Bass looks great, I hope you like it. $220 is a steal for a nice Squier bass. I'd take one just like it.

[@ArtOfShredYT]

Oh wow, what is up with Oakdale! 🤣

[@markpell8979]

@@ArtOfShredYT That was a couple years ago but I think Oakdale's an example of a Guitar Center that's tryin' to do things right. I've also had great experiences and good deals buying used from GCs at Joliet, Shreveport, OK City, New Braunfels TX, and Cincinnati. Guitar Center like in the good old days- 'Guitar Bros.' Avoid Milbury MA! They straight-up lied and knowingly unloaded a crap guitar on me that I had to work on for 6hrs to fix. But I like fixing guitars and I've got time. It's fine now but if was paying someone else for the repairs I coulda bought a nicer guitar new instead. So let that be a lesson to me I guess. But if that was the first GC I ever bought from it would also have been the last!

[@Ralferator]

right decision - nothing over a nice P Bass and that's a nice one

[@ArtOfShredYT]

For sure. I wasn't sure I'd like the gold and thought I might change out the pickguard but it actually works nicely with the dakota red 🤘

[@Ralferator]

@@ArtOfShredYT i think it looks awesome!

[@TheRealDealBobbySteele]

Nice Bass good deal!

[@ArtOfShredYT]

Yup, for sure. It's fun having a bass again :)

[@carpathus]

Not to shabby. Pretty cool actually. Cheers!

[@ArtOfShredYT]

I'm loving it so far! 🤘

[@AndyDion]

Nice bass
Slap da bass 🤘

[@johnhughes3796]

You can't beat a P bass . Not keen on the matt finish, makes it look cheap. Don't know what you were putting it through the twangy metallic sound was very odd and not at all P. Bassy.