Modding my MIM Jazz!

[1940andy]

Hello, low end musicians of the Talk Bass community. I've had my agave blue Fender Jazz for 4 or 5 years. Now that i'm making some money, I decided now would be a good time to mod it! It's already pretty beat up, but here's all that i'm planning to do to it:

-Relic the body more (tips on how to do this?)
-Put on an SX high mass bridge
-Putting on a red tortoise pickguard
-Tearing out my DiMarzio strap locks, putting regular buttons in
-Putting in white pickup covers (going to soak in coffee to stain them to a creamier color)
-Thinking about putting in a Seymour Duncan 1/4 neck pickup
-Putting on a walnut thumbrest
-Putting on 3 gold Gibson speed knobs
-New strings
-Adjust the truss rod
-Have all the wires cleaned, saudered (sp?) if need be

I'll make sure to post pictures when i'm done!

 

[J. Crawford]

Why the SX bridge? You can get a great bridge here used for the same price.

Sounds cool!

 

[Spinal Tapper]

Sounds neat - do some searches for relicing - it's not very hard if you take your time.

Also, good luck dying the PU covers - I tried soaking my white Pickguard (after I sanded it) in coffee for 4 days and nothing stuck. I think you'd be better off buying some nitro tint from reranch or something

 

[1940andy]

Why the SX bridge? You can get a great bridge here used for the same price.

Sounds cool!

I don't really care too much for brand names, and it was only 20 bucks. It'd be nice to have a BadAss II, but I bought the bridge when I didn't have that much money. The stock bridge on my Fender sucked so bad, I figured even a high mass bridge from Rondo would be better.

That, and I never even thought to check the classifieds on TB. Pretty dumb mistake!

 

[J. Crawford]

Sounds neat - do some searches for relicing - it's not very hard if you take your time.

Also, good luck dying the PU covers - I tried soaking my white Pickguard (after I sanded it) in coffee for 4 days and nothing stuck. I think you'd be better off buying some nitro tint from reranch or something

I was thinking that.

Krylon, paint for plastic, would work too.

 

[1940andy]

I was thinking that.

Krylon, paint for plastic, would work too.

What color Krylon paint would you suggest? And can I just pick that up at a hardware store?

 

[Spinal Tapper]

What color Krylon paint would you suggest? And can I just pick that up at a hardware store?

Depends on how you want them to look - if you want a DARK creme color, I'd sand them down and maybe apply a THIN layer of shoe-polish. I heard a little goes a long way.

 

[waynobass]

A picture of how it looks now would help us advise you.

I'm trying to picture the colors: blue, red, gold, white. Might be clashing.

 

[Din Of Win]

Also, good luck dying the PU covers - I tried soaking my white Pickguard (after I sanded it) in coffee for 4 days and nothing stuck. I think you'd be better off buying some nitro tint from reranch or something

Or just have it in a house where your disrespectful room mates smoke inside for a year

 

[Anonymous Guy]

You should see if the folks at the photoshop thread will make a visual mockup of your bass for you: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=572185

 

[1940andy]

Okay, everyone... here are the pictures of everything i'll be adding to the bass! The colors all match very well, but when you just state it as blue, red, white, and gold... It makes it seem like one ugly bass. I made a request to to have my bass mocked-up, so i'll post a picture of that soon as well.

These are the pickup covers i'm getting...

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But I'm going to paint them to make them look like this:

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With these knobs:

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and here is a pic of what my bass looks like

 

[bh2]

Andy... not the Gibbo knobs... nooo.... aaarrgghh!!

All the rest looks nice tho.