Didn't think of that, possible though.
The Jazz Bass of DOOM - Prog Doom that is........or anyone else's highly medicated or non medicated J B
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Progressivus Doomicus
Unicorn Ninja
I love this bass. I really dig that this bass does not look like the sound that comes out of it. DOOOOOM!!!!
ficelles
Corn Star
Fender MIJ JB, now uglified with GK-3B. Needs a black scratchplate.
Turner, Godin, and a Wal? Nice.
soulman
Royal Corn
Latest Jazz. Bought mostly because it reminds me of my first pro bass, a '66 Jazz in LPB. Fender marketed this one as being LPB but it's not. It's actual finish is the same Cobra Blue that Fender uses on much higher end US built models.
No Fender style bass I've owned in the past 12 years has remained bone stock and neither is this one. The pickups are Bill & Becky Lawrence/Wilde J45s and the bridge is a Babicz FCH model both of which I've had in a drawer ever since I sold my last Jazz Bass when I converted to a G&L L2500. The electronics and wiring are redone and it wears GHS Pressurwounds the best JBass strings made IMHO. That L2500 is gone now replaced by an M2000. I swore I would never buy another Fender over a G&L but my nostalgia overcame me and to be honest I'm glad it did.
For what I paid for it once I treated it to a fret job special and made my upgrades to everything but it's "bones" I knew I had myself a very nice '60s style Jazz Bass much like my old '66. I think for me it will be tough to not have both a PBass and a JBass because those are my roots even though my current leanings are toward G&Ls.
No Fender style bass I've owned in the past 12 years has remained bone stock and neither is this one. The pickups are Bill & Becky Lawrence/Wilde J45s and the bridge is a Babicz FCH model both of which I've had in a drawer ever since I sold my last Jazz Bass when I converted to a G&L L2500. The electronics and wiring are redone and it wears GHS Pressurwounds the best JBass strings made IMHO. That L2500 is gone now replaced by an M2000. I swore I would never buy another Fender over a G&L but my nostalgia overcame me and to be honest I'm glad it did.
For what I paid for it once I treated it to a fret job special and made my upgrades to everything but it's "bones" I knew I had myself a very nice '60s style Jazz Bass much like my old '66. I think for me it will be tough to not have both a PBass and a JBass because those are my roots even though my current leanings are toward G&Ls.
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Jeff Preston
Royal Coffee Roaster
I really dig the anniversary Squiers.
ficelles
Corn Star
Just ordered a custom black pearl pickguard for this... turns out early '90s MIJ is an awkward fit!
OH SHIT!! What did you awaken?!?!?!
Maybe if we all back away slowly, it will continue to lie in peaceful slumber.
armyadarkness
Royal Corn
OMG you have to worn people if you're going to show them your naked instrument! Put some strings on that thing. I'm sure you don't take it out in public like that
ficelles
Corn Star
Those aren't the new Thomastik "Unsichtbar" flatwounds then?
soulman
Royal Corn
Quickie pic while I was still doing work on the frets. The saddles aren't on the bridge plate either. I'll eventually get around to taking another now that it's completed. In the meantime be a gentleman......shield your eyes.
soulman
Royal Corn
We've all heard of air guitars right. This is a far more realistic air-bass. No strings, no saddles. Weight reduction.
ficelles
Corn Star
soulman
Royal Corn
Works for me pearloid hound that I am.
ficelles
Corn Star
Now de-uglified... Roland pickup banished as I am rediscovering the simple sound of a JB. Interesting how that pickguard is much darker in natural light than it looks in photos.
ficelles
Corn Star
Looks better with a trad bridge imo but definitely less sustain on the lower strings...
soulman
Royal Corn
I hear the same thing about Babicz FCH Bridges. Some don't like the look. I just say I didn't install if because of how it looks it did it because it makes the bass sound better and I can get my action so low an ant would need to crawl to get under the strings. The Oly Wht Jazz is gone so that bridge in now the one on the blue Jazz I just bought in Sept. The Wilde J45 pickups too.
