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01-19-2010, 09:00 AM
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I have an 89 Fender Jazz and I want to put flats on it. I am concerned a little about the neck. A tech told me once that flats put 20-30lbs. more pressure on the neck and it is not a good idea for a bass with a smaller neck.
Any ideas?
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01-19-2010, 09:07 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | If that was true there would be thousands of wrecked Jazz necks out there. Find a new tech and get the flats
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01-19-2010, 09:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Wytheville, VA | | | haha he wasn't my tech but thank you.
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01-19-2010, 09:15 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: AZ mountains | | | I've got flats (Osborns) on all my basses. Most of which I haven't touched the truss rod on in 5-9 years.
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01-19-2010, 09:24 AM
| | | | Check tension charts...this is perfectly untrue. |
01-19-2010, 09:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Rio de Janeiro | | | I've got a shortscale SX with flats. No problem.
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01-19-2010, 09:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Eastern Ontario, Canada | | | If you are really concerned with neck stress, try the Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Flats. They are by far the lowest tension flats out there. I've had them on my '69 Precision and '74 Jazz. No problems.
Conversely, the Rotosound 77 Jazz flats will test the truss rod. There are lots of good posts on here about different string tensions. YMMV.
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01-19-2010, 09:39 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: SDF | | I put flats on my Fender Standard American Jazz just last week - AND THE NECK SNAPPED IN TWO!!! Right then and there!!
Nah just kidding - plays like buttah! 
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01-19-2010, 09:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | | That might have been true in the old days. When flats gave way to round wounds in the 70's I think rounds were significantly lighter than the flats of the day. Now that there's some movement back to flats some manufacturers are making them lighter, I think. I also use Osborns (Lakland) and love them. I've also used and been happy with Chromes (D'Addario).
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01-19-2010, 10:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Western Washington | | | I'm loving the GHS Brite Flats on my Squier CV Jazz! No truss rod adjustment necessary.
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01-19-2010, 10:51 AM
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Managing Editor, Bass Guitars Editor, MusicGearReview.com | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | | +1 on TIs, Lakland JOs or D'Addario Chromes.
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01-21-2010, 05:24 AM
| | | | before i was too worried of tension too dude... but believe me its ok.. I'm using 40-100 Chromes and it feels too soft nowadays, looking to swap em with GHS medium flats | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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