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11-17-2012, 09:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Winston Salem, N.C. | | | Something doesnt seem right : '73 Jazz
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Mostly the logo in the pic of the head stock, seems way off and ive seen pretty consistant logo placement on fender stuff. |
11-17-2012, 09:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: 48313 | | | Curious there is no mention of the extra string tree. Looks like the stock tree was moved to the low strings and the newer one was installed in the original spot.
As for the logo, I have no idea.
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11-17-2012, 09:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Winston Salem, N.C. | | | I didnt notice that at first ! Wow thats even weirder |
11-17-2012, 09:47 AM
|  | Every exit is an entry somewhere else | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Northern CA. | | | Not sure if it's just the angle of photo, but the rear corner of the bridge looks like it hangs over the the edge of the bass? Seems a little odd. |
11-17-2012, 09:52 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Mid-Atlantic USA. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by funkinbottom  Not sure if it's just the angle of photo, but the rear corner of the bridge looks like it hangs over the the edge of the bass? Seems a little odd. | Well, it's darn close. 
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11-17-2012, 09:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Arizona | | | What's going on with the pick guard around the split pickups?
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11-17-2012, 09:54 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Nanaimo, BC, Canada | | | I'm willing to bet it's legit & has just had a TON of mods done.
The bridge kind of makes sense, given the dimensions of a BA.
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11-17-2012, 09:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Mid-Atlantic USA. | | | Yea, but isn't 1.2k kinda steep for something with all those mods? |
11-17-2012, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Winston Salem, N.C. | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by icecycle66 What's going on with the pick guard around the split pickups? | It looks like he added pieces of guard around the split pickup where the j pickup was . The headstock is still confusing me |
11-17-2012, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by jsaunders82 Mostly the logo in the pic of the head stock, seems way off and ive seen pretty consistant logo placement on fender stuff. | The heasdstock logo is fine, those were still decals applied by human hand back then, so there are inconsistancies in placement. But who cares about the headstock logo when the rest of every single part of this bass has been modified:
The original frets were ground flat to make it fretless.
The body cut for P pickups, and by the looks of oversized plugged holes in the modded pickguard, it probably had at least another type of pickup in there before.
The electronics need no mentioning, pretty obvious.
The badass is fine, yes the corner lays right on the curve.
Yes it's a legit old very-modded Fender Jazz, but this ain't no investment bass. To me the mods are attrocious and too costly for any restoration. |
11-17-2012, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Caca de Kick
The heasdstock logo is fine, those were still decals applied by human hand back then, so there are inconsistancies in placement. But who cares about the headstock logo when the rest of every single part of this bass has been modified:
The original frets were ground flat to make it fretless.
The body cut for P pickups, and by the looks of oversized plugged holes in the modded pickguard, it probably had at least another type of pickup in there before.
The electronics need no mentioning, pretty obvious.
The badass is fine, yes the corner lays right on the curve.
Yes it's a legit old very-modded Fender Jazz, but this ain't no investment bass. To me the mods are attrocious and too costly for any restoration.
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Yeah its pretty terrible , hate to se a modified old jazz |
11-17-2012, 11:24 AM
|  | Bottom Feeders Unite!! | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Delray Beach, Florida | | | You wouldn't want a fretless with block inlays anyway. You will get a different tone when the string touches a block inlay compared to when it is touching the wood part of the fretboard. That is why you typically do not see inlays on fretless basses. |
11-17-2012, 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by ClassicJazz You wouldn't want a fretless with block inlays anyway. You will get a different tone when the string touches a block inlay compared to when it is touching the wood part of the fretboard. That is why you typically do not see inlays on fretless basses. | Don't most inlaid fretless basses have some sort of epoxy coating on top of the fretboard to raise & level it out? This would nullify the difference
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11-17-2012, 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by awilkie84 Don't most inlaid fretless basses have some sort of epoxy coating on top of the fretboard to raise & level it out? This would nullify the difference | Plus I can't imagine too many instances of putting your finger over the block, except in the case of slides, in which case it would only be a momentary, and hardly noticeable difference.
It looks to me like it had a larger pickup where the P is now, or someone cut it for a inverted P pickup and then realised they'd f***ed up :P |
11-17-2012, 09:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Gastonia, NC | | Don't forget the selecter switch and miss-matched knobs in the volume volume tone section. 
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11-17-2012, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by ClassicJazz You wouldn't want a fretless with block inlays anyway. You will get a different tone when the string touches a block inlay compared to when it is touching the wood part of the fretboard. That is why you typically do not see inlays on fretless basses. |
ORLY ?? --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGdiE-Ssfx4 |
11-17-2012, 09:17 PM
| | | yeah, but he says it's "all original" except for...
...pretty much the wood, the keys and the paint 
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11-18-2012, 09:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: 48313 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by walterw yeah, but he says it's "all original" except for...
...pretty much the wood, the keys and the paint | Excellent point Walter.
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11-18-2012, 10:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Atlanta, GA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ClassicJazz You wouldn't want a fretless with block inlays anyway. You will get a different tone when the string touches a block inlay compared to when it is touching the wood part of the fretboard. That is why you typically do not see inlays on fretless basses. | Yeah, no way you'd want to sound like this: Bireli Lagrene fretless bass solo  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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