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Fender Jazz Bass pickup difference is MIA and MIM
- Thread starter MovingPitchers
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FWIW I've never had a problem fitting standard Jazz pickups into an older mim. It's a little tight in the bridge but it'll go.
Actually I do remember that too. I tried to fit dimarzio dp149 jazz set pickups into my mim once. The neck one fit nicely but the bridge required extra force to fit it. I guarantee that the dimarzios are standard sizing
Well that answers my question.
I just read your thread where you traded a Geddy for Dirnt P bass, color me confused.
LEt's clear this up.
I lovd my Geddy bass but had no choice to but to trade it for the Mike Dirnt P-bass plus cash because I needed money ASAP.
Would I have said no to the trade if I had a chance to go back in time? MOST DEFINITELY.
After sulking for a while, I decided that the transaction did me more good than bad; I did get $180 out of it plus a sick p bass that has some value if I ever decide to trade it in or sell in. Then I said to myself, "Hey, if I end up never owning a Geddy ever again, I can just configure my MIM Fender Jazz bass to sound similarly like the Geddy without any preamps or effects. Save up for a set of Custom Shop 60s jazz pickups, learn how to route and add in the block inalys (pearloid I might add) or save up and obtain a 74' or 75' reissue jazz bass, the ones with the pearloid binding and inlays.
I decided owning another person's signature bass isn't worth it after all. I had a great but short experience with the Geddy Lee but I decided it really wasn't for me; it was my dream bass after all but I didn't realize my dream bass was in my room, awaiting its new maple neck to arrive from Fender.
I want my own mojo on my bass and my own designs. Maybe I'll add in a black pearloid pickguard or hell, a preamp into it.
OK, I get that
Routing an already fretted and radiused board for inlays would be a difficult task, not for beginners. I would save up for a reissue.
You could have ordered a maple neck with Pearloid inlays from Allparts, Warmoth or USACG instead of a neck for Fender. I assume you are getting a MIM maple neck from the Fender store?
that sounds like a plan, post pics when you do.
I did get an mim neck from fender because warmoth for me was way too expensive
Fair enough. But that means you are getting a neck that is not your dream neck, so you are just postponing your dream a bit. (Just like most people.)
Warmoth is expensive, but they can make exactly what you want. For me, that involves exotic woods, so they can do what few others can. In your case, there might be more sources available -- but if you can't get exactly what you want from them, in the end you are going to have to modify things yourself or pay someone else to do it, and that's the point where spending the money on a Warmoth becomes cost-effective.
Warmoth is expensive, but they can make exactly what you want. For me, that involves exotic woods, so they can do what few others can. In your case, there might be more sources available -- but if you can't get exactly what you want from them, in the end you are going to have to modify things yourself or pay someone else to do it, and that's the point where spending the money on a Warmoth becomes cost-effective.
Don't get me wrong; I absolutely love the new maple neck. I hope to learn woodworking so I can make my own neck and my own designs which will essentially cost me quite a bit but nonetheless having the feeling of comfort and happiness that I made the neck instead of some stranger in a factory making it.
Only thing I would be buying online is a fender decal.....you know...the really big one that says FENDER JAZZ BASS like on a geddy.
Only thing I would be buying online is a fender decal.....you know...the really big one that says FENDER JAZZ BASS like on a geddy.
so you want to make your own neck and own design, but also put a Fender logo on it, the same logo that a stranger's hand who makes a neck at a real Fender factory would put on.
Please post pics when you do create the neck
Please post pics when you do create the neck
so you want to make your own neck and own design, but also put a Fender logo on it, the same logo that a stranger's hand who makes a neck at a real Fender factory would put on.
Please post pics when you do create the neck
The tone of your posts make it sound condescending. Forget it.
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