The Fender Jaguar Club - Page 35

johnk_10 · #**681** 01-03-2013, 10:38 PM

my pleasure Paul.
BTW, that bass (and your playing) sounded great when you played late night with Jimmy Fallon.

lowsideonacurve · #**682** 01-04-2013, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by PaulieBe

I love these new original Jaguars! Prob the coolest thing Fender has done in a long while.

I had the Bass Mage johnk_10 work his Dark Arts on it and it went from being a really good bass to just amazing. Prob my favorite bass to date and I have a ton of them, including old fenders. You can read about it on his great site. In a nut shell:

1. Dimarzio Model J pu's- super dark and loud. Humbuckers essentially.
2. New Allparts neck, shaved to a 60's profile, rolled, bound and refinished nitro- with matching black headstock. (new correct 3/32" size dots too, John is nothing if not a detail man)
3. Gotoh resolite tuners (addressing the neck dive.)
4. Swapped out Fender pre for EMG preamp (much groovier. Less zizzy sounding.)
5. Painted the routes for shielding (addressing the noise issue.)
6. New tortoise pick guard (addressing my nerd issues.)
7. Recessed the switches and swapped out the knobs for Bakelite knobs
8. NOS çap from late sixties on the passive tone circuit.
9. Bassmute (I love those things!)

Thanks John!!!
(Fender, get your **** together and hire him as a paid consultant.)

Beautiful!

I was very happy with my Jag until now.

Thanks for giving me another GAS attack

LowNloud1 · #**683** 01-04-2013, 03:40 PM

Here's mine.

Ampeg B-12, Ampeg B-115 and Acoustic B200 with a Peavey 18" BW and 2 x 10 cabinet.

PWRL · #**684** 01-04-2013, 11:48 PM

I love seeing all the different Jaguars, and all the different mods people have done. It's all very inspiring. I for one, plan on keeping mine for ever and ever.

PBASSTONE · #**685** 01-13-2013, 10:15 PM

Here's my contribution...

Pups changed to Seymour Duncan Antiquity II 11044-16 & 11044-06
Cloth wiring, CTS stacked pots 250K+500K,
Orange Drop .047 for neck pickup, .033 for bridge
Fender reversed vintage tuners

Timgebutler · #**686** 01-27-2013, 09:33 AM

Here's mine.

theNecatoR · #**687** 04-11-2013, 04:00 AM

Is someone still giving numbers, because I'd like a number too!
Here are some shots:

theNecatoR · #**688** 04-11-2013, 04:39 AM

Well, I've been reading the thread and it seems they stoped giving numbers (and a damn) in 2009. With that in mind, I urge someone to pick up where they left.
And I hope I don't get anyone mad, but I'm taking an autoservice aproach and giving me a number:
#100
Feel free to debate it or continue from here

Toptube · #**689** 04-11-2013, 05:08 AM

A Thundercat appears!

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Originally Posted by Toptube

Its alive. ITS ALIVE. The Thundercat!

before/after
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h2ozjonx9j...jaguarbass.jpg

vanity
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7iri7oh6k9jmd0x/P1013868.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/llr1t4epx4jtnz5/P1013884.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/me471a9udjuwp82/P1013916.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ttblurwjomjsw5b/P1013930.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wryg92l61z5kqzv/P1013922.jpg

theNecatoR · #**690** 04-11-2013, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Toptube

A Thundercat appears!

Toptube #101

BassTapp · #**691** 04-19-2013, 06:02 PM

After waiting 3 months for this beast to arrive from Japan I finally picked it up yesterday! If numbers are going out...

NYCbassist · #**692** 04-19-2013, 06:12 PM

May I Have a Number please? Thanks.

Reynoldbot · #**693** 04-20-2013, 06:38 PM

I saw this thread pop up again, and I figured since I had modded my OCAR Jaguar quite a bit I should throw a picture up and explain:

The main difference is that I removed the PUP selector and series / parallel switches on the lower horn and converted the V / T control layout to stacked V/T V/T. I found that while playing live I was constantly hitting the switches by accident, and more than a few switch combinations simply cuts all sound coming from the bass. This setup is much more playable, and to me the bass looks great too. I also threw Aguilar PUPs and preamp in there too for good measure. She's a beast!

NYCbassist · #**694** 04-29-2013, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Reynoldbot

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Gorgeous bass man. I love the Matching Headstock.

theNecatoR · #**695** 05-03-2013, 12:47 AM

BassTapp #102
NYCBassist #103
Reynoldbot #104

P.S. Reynold, gorgeous Bass, do you have a photo/diagram of her guts? I'm thinking myself of some stacked action. I'm not getting rid of the switches, I will just turn them upside down, I have almost always both pichups on and the bass on series. But some parallel action would be coof if I had tone and volume on it (Maybe then I'll sell my J-Bass).

BlazingRiCO · #**696** 05-12-2013, 01:54 PM

Since yesterday I have a Jag again, love the looks, sound and feel of it (altough you can clearly see its a 2 part body, big bummer) !

Here's mine. The pickguard will be replaced with a tort one.

And oh yea: I want a number

Toptube · #**697** 05-12-2013, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by BlazingRiCO

Since yesterday I have a Jag again, love the looks, sound and feel of it (altough you can clearly see its a 2 part body, big bummer) !

Here's mine. The pickguard will be replaced with a tort one.

And oh yea: I want a number

Most basses are two piece bodies. The bummer here is aesthetic. That the split isn't in the middle. But a split like that will probably sound more like a one piece.

Bongolation · #**698** 05-12-2013, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Toptube

Most basses are two piece bodies. The bummer here is aesthetic. That the split isn't in the middle.

So far, I have never seen a Dyna-Gakki bass with the body seam inline with the neck pocket. It's always to one side or the other.

It appears they do this on purpose for some reason, perhaps believing there's some tonal benefit nobody else has heard of.

Or maybe it's just the ones I've seen, I dunno...but I've been watching this for a long time now.

NYCbassist · #**699** 05-12-2013, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Bongolation

So far, I have never seen a Dyna-Gakki bass with the body seam inline with the neck pocket. It's always to one side or the other.

It appears they do this on purpose for some reason, perhaps believing there's some tonal benefit nobody else has heard of.

Or maybe it's just the ones I've seen, I dunno...but I've been watching this for a long time now.

I've seen $2000 American Vintage RI P-Basses for sale that have 3 piece bodies. It's plain as day when you look at them. It's done to save $$ and no other reason.

Toptube · #**700** 05-12-2013, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by NYCbassist

I've seen $2000 American Vintage RI P-Basses for sale that have 3 piece bodies. It's plain as day when you look at them. It's done to save $$ and no other reason.

Well of course it saves money. I think the general question we sort of raised is what exactly is the reason for uneven two piecers? Is it a tonal goal or is it even cheaper than making two even pieces?