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Fender Mustang Club
- Thread starter FlyingPigSound
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Yup! Hopefully they'll sort it quickly enough. No urgent rush, but never appreciate the hassle of returning something that size.
77stingray
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Hey all. I put my player mustang P/J up for sale if anyone is looking.For Sale - Fender Player Mustang
OK, I am officially in love. Got a new Player Mustang PJ a few weeks ago. Initially swapped the stock strings for flats, Hipshot bridge and then today just added Ultralite tuners. (or at least my luthier did).
Neck dive gone- and this thing plays like butter. Great sustain and love the P tone. I'm excited to see how it performs at my band rehearsal this week. This will be our 2nd meet up- we play 90s alternative.
I'm old (will be 60 this year) but still really a struggling novice bass player since I got started so late. (about 3 and a half years ago). Hard to put into words, but this Mustang gives me confidence because it just sounds so damn good and is a blast to play!
Neck dive gone- and this thing plays like butter. Great sustain and love the P tone. I'm excited to see how it performs at my band rehearsal this week. This will be our 2nd meet up- we play 90s alternative.
I'm old (will be 60 this year) but still really a struggling novice bass player since I got started so late. (about 3 and a half years ago). Hard to put into words, but this Mustang gives me confidence because it just sounds so damn good and is a blast to play!
Hey man, I got into bass a few years ago (at like 33 and I'm 39 now) and feel just the same way! Also about my Offset PJ 'stang heh... it's got the same mods though I went classic HB10 tuners since I have a massive strap to grab against neck dive. Idk if flats are the usual first choice for 90s alternative lol, but alternative is in itself a choice to be different, so hey! You shouldn't have any dead spots on the neck and the J pup ought to give you some great tonal variety, and your bass is a babe.
ROCK N ROLL
What's funny about this is, I've put a lot of work into my shell pink PJ 'stang, and thought that if Nordy put out a shell pink Acinonyx, I'd have a TOUGH time fighting the urge to switch. They ultimately didn't, and also I really dig my Mustang, so I'm good. But I so thoroughly empathize haha... but also, as cool as the Nordstrands are, if you're into shortscale, I mean, most of us have more than one long scale bass, so yeah....
Does anyone know any lightweight replacement tuners for my Mustang? Its a little head heavy and I think a tuner swap would make it more comfortable to play. I'm OK with drilling new holes to mount the tuners, but I don't want to have to enlarge the tuner peg holes. Thanks.
Hipshot Ultralites. Do a search on this thread and many references will come up.
I ordered the hipshot ultralights. Will post when they get here and I install them.
You can get tinted wood filler to hide the existing screw holes. Doesn’t look bad. The Ultra-Lites also tune slightly better than the stock tuners (21-1 ratio vs. 20-1)
Also, it appears that the new screw holes for the Hipshots would be covered up if the original tuners were re-installed. That means I can put it back to stock if I ever wanted to sell it.
For anyone who has replaced the pickguard on their recent Squier Classic Vibe Mustang - where did you get it? I have a surf green one and really want to change the white pickguard but would prefer not to remove the original and mail it off somewhere - thanks!
I don't have a Squier Mustang bass, but I've ordered a couple of Pickguards from this seller. One for my Fender PJ Mustang bass and one for my Squier JMJM guitar. Everything fits perfectly. I'd recommend them.
Replacement pickguard for Squier Classic Vibe 60s Mustang Bass CV, many colors! | eBay
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I got the pearl pickguard on Reverb from Precision Guitar. See message #4149, 2 pages back.
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