Help identifying a '94 "USA" Jazz

Badass bridge is a replacement, but otherwise, it be straight. Hard to tell without pictures of any kind.

Instruments at that time don't say anything about Corona. Through bridge stringing is correct. The 5th hole in the neckplate is stock to that era, as is the truss rod adjustment at the top of the neck.

 

Here's a link here on TB about the bass you're talking about:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f126/fs-1994-mia-fender-jazz-sunburst-great-condition-623825/

 

That's the next year model change. The characteristics he lists, except for the bridge are correct for the 93/94 years.

OP, is this a Jazz long horn, or is it regular Jazz shaped?

Don't make me take out my camera and post shots of my stock MIA 93 Jazz that has all those features.

 

The long horns have better balance than the standard shape, because of the extended horn. It sounds like its just-post longhorn, which is right for 94. It has most of the same characteristics as mine (bought new at a Fender dealer). Skunk stripe, "Made in the USA" with serial number on the headstock...they were all like that during that era, which I'm sure was a marketing thing, because otherwise the public knew you were playing a 'cheaper' model. The truss rod entry is at the headstock, set through the plug in the headstock. The tuners are hefty and should have the backwards F on them on the back. The Neck plate also has the F and has the additional hole and the bottom end of it.

Later (95ish) Fender put out some basses that could be strung with either through body, or through bridge holes.

 

Its a great bass. I bought it new, and it was my main bass for nearly a decade. I played it heavily on stage through much of the northeast without ever a problem.

I always found it VERY different from a MIM bass. Keep in mind, in that era, there were three tiers of Fender basses, the MIA being the best, the MIJ being the midrange and the MIM being the cheap stuff. At that time it was truly MIA, not partially done in Mexico.