Fender Jazz Bass american deluxe neck

[spaga]

Hi,

If I had a Fender jazz bass neck, of the american deluxe 2012 series, would it fit a standard jazz bass body?

My bigest concern is that an American deluxe neck has 21 frets, instead 20 like a standard.

I have a project in mind, of getting a custom body fit to one of these necks, cause they are stunning

Thanks

[spaga]

If someone can give me the dimensions of the neck pocket of an american deluxe jb, that would be a very helpfull.

thx

[mikecd1]

The American Standard and Mexican standard are both 4 bolt neck pockets. The American Deluxe neck pocket is a 5 bolt so at the very least you'd have to re-drill the holes and not sure how that would line up against the existing 5 holes. I think in the mid 90's the american deluxe had a 4 hole neck pocket. Not sure if that 5th hole on the dlx neck would protrude out of the standard neck pocket or not.

[spaga]

Thanks for the reply mikecd1.

Those are good points which you brought up there. I would say that, to fit an ADlx (American Deluxe) neck ( which has 21 frets), whats needs to be really done is, that I would need to rout the neck pocket further to the bridge direction ( so as to fit the neck heel and the extra 21st fret- without altering the scale length which the neck fretting is made for).

interesting....