Recent content by Rockin Jimmy

Just found this thread. I'm a big fan. Of all the songs he made great, The Lemon Song being a favorite, Hey Hey What Can I Do is the one that really made me look and listen to his bass lines. He took a fairly boring guitar song and gave it soul. Can I have #142? Among his other accomplishments...

Thanks for all the info. After a lot of agonizing, I decided to use a Dremel to route out the bridge cavity a little bit. I agonized because me fine finish work is not always great. I did the routing with the Dremel and it came out pretty close to perfect. No paint chips on the top and fairly...

Any year with the five screw bridge will work. Fender is actually selling MIM J Bass bodies with the 5 screw bridge on their website now. There was a quirk with the 90's J bass bodies. The routing for the bridge pickup is smaller than the normal size by just 1/8 - 1/4 inch. I learned this the...

Thanks for the info. Both good reads. Interesting that someone else had the exact same issue with a 90's era MIM J bass. Seems like Fender would have at least standardized the routing pattern. The J bass hasn't really changed much over time, except for some little things. Sounds like I'm going...

I decided to do some work on my '95 Fender MIM J bass with new electronics and pickups. I added a push/pull pot for parallel/series and did the treble bleed mod. I bought the CS 60's pickups, and that is where the issue is. The bridge pickup is too big for the bridge slot, so I had to switch it...