ok guys .. this is a '98 MIM V Jazz I got used a few weeks ago.
I've never done a setup on a guitar .. I took instructions from fenders site. The neck was ridiculously concave .. I had to do about at least full turn on the truss rod to get it to just a very small amount of concave.
Once I got that setup right .. it felt a lot better playing it .. but when going to set the action, the height of the b string was about 16/64ths at the 17th fret. Fenders site says it should be about 7/64ths.
Look at the bridge in the pick above .. I don't think it's stock .. and the height is already as low as this bridge will allow. I remember reading somewhere that some aftermarket bridges have a base plate that's too thick (3/8" .. which is about what this one is.) And people suggested either grinding down the bottom or routing out about 1/4" underneath the bridge plate to lower it ..
Does it look like an aftermarket bridge to you guys? Is there something I'm missing here? I can't lower the action down at all and want too still as 16/64th's across all the strings seems ridiculously high. I'd been playing this bass for about 2 weeks this way and it's a lot easier to play with the relief set correctly now ... I just can't set the action any lower!
