Jack Casady Bass - Pickup Replacement/Upgrade

[Basic Lee]

This was a factory refurbished JCB. I have no experience with the JCB-1. But, I did upgrade the hardware, nut, luminous side markers and TI Powerbass strings. Lots of big warm wooly punch

I never really answered your question. The Hipshot bridge gave it a better foundation with more sustain. The Graphtec Tusq nut also helped. Go

 

[ravelax]

Tangential thought. It’s incredible how Epiphone have created one of ‘Gibson’s’ best basses. Why they haven’t made a Gibson version is beyond me

Old thread, but the Jack Casady bass is in fact based on the very obscure Gibson Les Paul Signature bass of the early 70's. Jack apparently found one in a store in the 80's and took a liking to it, the story about how the Epiphone signature model came to be can be found on the Flyguitars site.

 

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Old thread, but the Jack Casady bass is in fact based on the very obscure Gibson Les Paul Signature bass of the early 70's. Jack apparently found one in a store in the 80's and took a liking to it, the story about how the Epiphone signature model came to be can be found on the Flyguitars site.

I have one of those original '73 Gibson Les Paul Signature basses, and yes, it's almost just like a Jack, essentially the same body, different pickup and electronics. Still a very, very cool nice-sounding bass.

 

[Michael Vee]

The real question is what are you going to do with the impedance switch if you change the pickup?

Old thread, but still. I would go with a Varitone control of some sort.