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Is a P with a J neck a PJ?
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At that rate, almost every P-bass is wrong. Most don't have the original 1.75" nut baseball neck.
I've heard it referred to as a hot rod precision.
So you want a jazz neck ( in this case a 1.5 w at nut and a 9.5 radius ... I have no idea why the ad copy hawks a 9.5 as modern .. not 7.5 ??) AND a split single ??? Is that the criterion ??? If you don't want the boring stove bolt body shape of a P but want the rest than go JAG !!!
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Fender came out with these in the late 2000's but it wasn't around too long.
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Actually I may have given you bad info.That's what I'm going with
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That's evidentally the official hotrod precision.
oh haha well, technically the bass I'm going after is a 'hot rod' considering it's a modified P. But honestly I don't know the exact definition of 'Hot Rod', was going to make another thread but I'll try and figure it out...
Well it was basically a combination of vintage bass design with a few modern appointments. Like a compound radius neck, PJ pickups, and a modern but width. Not quite sure what else. But they made a hot rod jazz as well that had the PJ configuration.
But a 1.625" nut is still a P neck width. A Jazz neck is still wrong, and that's coming from someone who has one on my California P-Special, my main player.
Well, I'm building a warmoth p with s j neck right now. I'll just call it yo mamma
All of the original P-basses had a 1.75" nut for the most part, that was 50s and 60s. The 70s had more of the 1.625" nuts showing up. You could actually order P-basses with a 1.5" nut though, the neck was called a "A" neck. You could pick the nut width back then.
Anyway, long story short, if a 1.5" nut is wrong, then so is a 1.625" nut. That earlier comment was meant in more jockular fashion so I'm just explaining it. It's Christmas! Time to joke around and have fun.
I personally think a P-bass is a P-bass regardless of the nut width. If similarity to an old P-bass is what makes a bass a "real P-bass" then there isn't a "real" P-bass left aside from the vintage models. They've changed so much over the years. To me it's a P-bass if it's passive and has a split coil pickup in the right spot. While the neck can change the tone (the fretboard for example) I don't think the nut width is affecting the P-sound at all.
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I'm with you, man, my OP in this thread was just for a goof. Merry Christmas!
"Collect call for 'Boris' from 'Natasha in Pottslyvania'. Will you accept the charges?"
For my personal peace of mind, especially on the rare occasions I have to reach out directly to Fender, I just use their own model-name conventions; If it's a P-body, I call it a Precision…if it's a J-body, I call it a Jazz…everything else (neck, pickups) is just window dressing.
To elaborate further, and perhaps stir the pot a bit, let me ask the assembled "WE" a question; With no indication of what the neck and electronics are, how would you classify this bass?
