Recent content by SonnyMorrow

Some live playing with it:

Yes it is, here is a picture of my father with it when he was about 19, he lived to be 66 and played it for about 50 years: I'm not exactly sure what is original on it but I know it came in black with the matching headstock. Still plays and sounds great but the frets are really bothering me...

So the time has come where my late father's, now my, 1965 Fender Jazz bass needs to be refretted or as far as I can tell. It's not as playable as it used to be and I've got it set up properly. Lots of fret buzz everywhere in first position. I'm in Northern California near Sacramento. I'm looking...

Hi there I'm working on setting up a Fender Jazz bass. I took the neck off to see if it had a neck shim. Here is what I found, any idea what this stuff means? I never have seen it before. The serial number on the headstock is: US10125559 and says its a 2011 Fender Jazz American special. Any...

You could be right, he did have a Precision bass around then but it was red. It is a very blurry picture, so there's a good chance it isn't the '65. He also had a Zon 5 string Legacy Elite, and that white fretless Fender jazz that is in the same pic above. So it would have to be one of those...

I also noticed this but did not realize it at the time of posting this thread. When I talked to my dad about the details of this bass he had told me the neck was all original but only the body had a clear coat put over the body in the 90's. I believe a lot of the paint chips were touched up with...

So I have yet to actually decide what I will do with the nut but first things first, this morning I decided to try to remove the nut. My logic being: If I was going to go the route of replacing the nut, the old one had to come off. If I was going to shim it, the old one would have to come off...

Super cool, I bet you still wonder if it is out there somewhere.. What a shame. Happy to hear you found an '85 with a good neck though. The cool thing about the all maple neck is you can see the finger wear on the fretboard, eventually. I love that worn in look that the rosewoods don't generally...

I'm by no means an expert on these Fenders but I have done a fair bit of research on the black Jazz basses from this era. A lot of them have the decal snipped as the black text does not really show up well on the black headstock. I think all of the ones I have seen online have them snipped. My...

You have very good eyes, yes I thought the same exact thing. If you run your hands down the side you can feel it is offset. I wonder what happened or if it has always been like that from the factory? Anyways this will definitely take into account what I will be doing with the nut. I think it...

I kinda feel the same, as you can't really undo gluing. So that is why I'm looking for some more tips/tricks. I'm seriously considering using paper but what would work more long term similar to paper? I don't want to really remove the nut it looks very old and fragile. I'd honestly rather just...

Pretty much, yeah you can see the grooves created from the strings from the years and years of playing. Hence why I know for certain the nut slots are too deep. Good idea about the paper. I'm going to paper all 4 slots soon and see how it plays and sounds. I'll go from there. But yes the strings...

I see, just like a little bead. See these ideas are great and I wouldn't have thought of them on my own. That is another option. Although I don't really want to disturb the nut. No idea if it would come off easy. Also what material are the nuts on a 60's Fender bass? Are they plastic?

A new one would stick out like a sore thumb, the original is really faded. I'd never sell the bass anyways but I want it to look the same as it always has. Interesting. Yeah I grew up as a guitar player since around age 7 when my dad got me a guitar. I still play guitar to this day. But I...

My dad pretty much gave me his 1965 Fender jazz that he has owned for the past 50 years or so. I've been playing it for a few years now and I wanted it to play its very best so I set it up the other day, adjusted the truss rod, string height, intonation etc. All according to the proper...