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Is that an all rosewood neck on there? If so, please tell me that’s not the one you’ve happily attached to a jazz body, haha

Pmed

That pau ferro grain is niiice!

The one pot I can read looks like a CTS from 1993 (with the month code obscured by solder)

For sure! I unscrewed the neck plate and the neck didn’t wiggle in the pocket one bit and I thought, “well, at least I know why those paint chips are there.” Haha. Ugh. Oh well

Right on the money! PJ-555 is printed in the neck pocket. And yeah, it’s a pretty cool body but the electronics are amazing

Replying to myself to update-- to do some maintenance, I took the neck off of the black one and it turns out someone put a Squier Standard neck on a MIJ Fender P/J body. So, I guess I have about 1.5 Standards, haha.

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I found out the body wasn't original to the neck, so my initial guess that things weren't Squier were correct, but I was looking in the wrong place as I was trying to track things down. It turns out the body is a MIJ Fender Jazz Bass Special PJ-555, with stock electronics.

Thanks for the fun thread, everyone! My first bass was a Shoreline Gold Squier Standard Series Precision (2002) that I bought on ebay. After some years of playing and "upgrading" to a Fender MIM Precision, I traded the Standard for a funky MIJ EB style bass. VERY shortly after giving it up, I...

A dead pot itself decreases the value over one that works. Replacing a dead pot with a decent functioning one (with a pro-level solder job) won't decrease the value by a lot more than leaving the dead one in. Replacing the pot with one that's the correct year/era would be "better" than replacing...

Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately, the case lacks any marking and is a pretty standard-looking black j pickup cover.

Also, the bass came with two different types of strings on it, that was not something I did o_O

I grabbed a used P/J with aftermarket pickups installed so it's time to play everyone's favorite game: please help me identify these pickups! They're shielded which is cool, and the pole pieces are 7mm, which is weird. The wiring is plastic-coated but seems decent. The P pickup (still wired...