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I don't think this is a Fender Jazz... help?

#41
buldog5151bass said:
Sorry for the de-rail, but when was the de-tuner lever under the headstock? I have three of them - one I installed in the 80s, one I ordered with my Lull about 12 years ago, and one I installed with my build last year, and all of them have the lever right next to the tuner.
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It looks like the tuner says Schecter, not a Hipshot. Would that make a difference?
 
#44
NWB said:
That would probably make the difference although the position of it doesn't seem very ergonomic.
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C'mon its just opened further than necessary. If you turn it 180 degrees it will be in the tuned position and with it dropped to vertical it is in the dropped position. A jazz doesn't have a lobe at the neck to prevent that extreme swing.
 
#46
NWB said:
That would probably make the difference although the position of it doesn't seem very ergonomic.
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Agreed, the only thing I can think of is that whoever did the real work was compensating for the Fathead. Doesn't mean they did a good job of it though.

sissy kathy said:
C'mon its just opened further than necessary. If you turn it 180 degrees it will be in the tuned position and with it dropped to vertical it is in the dropped position. A jazz doesn't have a lobe at the neck to prevent that extreme swing like a P does.
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I'm not talking about the lever, you're right about that. I'm talking about the plates.
 
#54
NWB said:
Not to the best of my knowledge. Nut replacement is a pretty common thing though.
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My Carvin LB40 fretless has a brass nut - makes the open strings sound much more different than fingered ones, which some folks might not like, but I do. On a fretted bass, it might make open and fretted sound more alike.
 
#56
I think it looks pretty cool. Try it out and see if you love it. Offer $500 for it if you do.
Like said here many times already, in parts it's probably worth all that, but when someone else puts all the parts on it it does provide the opportunity to discount it.
It is a late 70's neck w/ everything else probably not Fender (there are no other obvious fender parts except the wrong 4 bolt neck plate).
I have a Smith bridge and several sets of Bartolini's , as well as Hipshot D-tuners on most of my basses...good stuff.
 
#57
bholder said:
My Carvin LB40 fretless has a brass nut - makes the open strings sound much more different than fingered ones, which some folks might not like, but I do. On a fretted bass, it might make open and fretted sound more alike.
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I think that's pretty much the reason that a lot of people have replaced the nut on their basses with a brass one.

Carvin probably offered that as an option. Fender - not likely.
 
#58
Lownote38 said:
Careful. It seems like the seller knows nothing about this bass (or bass in general), and that throws a red flag to me. It's probably stolen. The body, tuners, electronics, bridge and everything but the neck are not original. Not even the neck plate! My suspicion is that someone put this bass together (poorly) for themselves, and then it was stolen and put up on craigslist.
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Actually it smells of "Pawn Shop" to me. The carpet in the picture is industrial grade carpet squares, not what you would normally see in a house. There isn't anything about this bass that would be worth paying for.
Tuners - garbage
Body - broken
Neck - modified and in doubtful playing condition
Controls - knobs missing, caked with crud, pots probably packed with dirt
Bridge - caked in crud, allen screws corroded
Neck plate - not original
Fat finger - drilled into
Drop key - possibly not working correctly
Upper strap pin - not original
Strings - judging from the amount of crud on this bass probably trashed

I wouldn't buy it to own, fix/flip or even part out. In fact I wouldn't even take it for free - it would probably take around $300 to get it up to gigging quality (assuming the neck is ok) and then you'd be lucky to ever get your money out of it if you sold it.

The OP made a wise move - "move along, these are not the droids you're looking for"
 
#59
GBassNorth said:
Actually it smells of "Pawn Shop" to me. The carpet in the picture is industrial grade carpet squares, not what you would normally see in a house. There isn't anything about this bass that would be worth paying for.
Tuners - garbage
Body - broken
Neck - modified and in doubtful playing condition
Controls - knobs missing, caked with crud, pots probably packed with dirt
Bridge - caked in crud, allen screws corroded
Neck plate - not original
Fat finger - drilled into
Drop key - possibly not working correctly
Upper strap pin - not original
Strings - judging from the amount of crud on this bass probably trashed

I wouldn't buy it to own, fix/flip or even part out. In fact I wouldn't even take it for free - it would probably take around $300 to get it up to gigging quality (assuming the neck is ok) and then you'd be lucky to ever get your money out of it if you sold it.

The OP made a wise move - "move along, these are not the droids you're looking for"
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I agree. I still think it could be a stolen bass that was pawned and then put on craigslist.
 
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