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E series Japanese Feneder PJ?

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Fogoverla

May 19, 2013
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Chicago, IL
#1
Hi all, found a bass at a local guitar center that raises a few questions. The GC employee and I pulled the J pickup out and saw machine drilled screws, but the pickup hole was widened to fit a bartolini pickup. I am not sure if fender ever made a PJ in those production years, and the GC employee told me he checked the stamp on the body and it matches up. Bad Ass II bridge installed too...

Will post pics once I pick it up tomorrow ;)
 
#2
Fogoverla said:
Hi all, found a bass at a local guitar center that raises a few questions. The GC employee and I pulled the J pickup out and saw machine drilled screws, but the pickup hole was widened to fit a bartolini pickup. I am not sure if fender ever made a PJ in those production years, and the GC employee told me he checked the stamp on the body and it matches up. Bad Ass II bridge installed too...

Will post pics once I pick it up tomorrow ;)
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Fender was late for the party as far as P/J's go, just like a with a fretless bass... I'm guessing mid to late 80's that a P/J configuration was seen on a Fender bass. The P-bass Plus?
 
#5
wild4oldcars said:
The most noted is probably the jazz bass special, but i believe before then they had something actually labeled a P-J Bass
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JIO said:
1985 - one and the same
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I think the Jazz Bass Special had the narrower net width that is common to all Jazz basses. I have a 1986 Japanese P/J Bass (says P/J Bass on the headstock) that has a typical P-Bass neck except the back is painted black. Same body, pickups and everything else I believe. I switched the knobs ... original ones are black and skirted with the Fender "F" on them.

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#6
According to Tony Bacon & Barry Moorhouse (The Bass Book -2008 edition) the P/J is what the Jazz Special (85-91) was originally know as. It had a Precision-style contoured body regardless of the name. No mention of neck specs other than maple/rosewood. The later Power Jazz Special also had a Precision body and a 22 fret neck.
 
#10
Yeah, I am certain it was an aftermarket mod. I really want to get the bartolinis out of there for something with some punch, but I don't want to lose out on some vintage sound.

I was thinking a seymour duncan quarter pound P bass pickup and a Hot stack Jazz Bridge pickup and doing a 3 way switch with master volume and tone. I am just not sold on the pickups though. The Barts are just way too mellow with the rosewood board.
 

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