Routing an American Standard J for a P pickup

[Jaingra8]

Hi all!

I'm looking to route an American Standard Jazz for a neck (not bridge) p-pickup. I prefer the feel of a jazz neck and body and don't want to have to swap out a J-neck onto a p-body. This way, the route will be covered up by the pick guard and you won't even tell the difference.


What are people's thoughts on this?

Primarily i have three questions:

1) How will this affect the re-sale value of the bass?
2) Where should the placing be of the p-pickup? If it is place vertically in same place as the Jazz pickup, the route should be fairly minimal...
3) Where would the p-pickup be placed dimensionally on an authentic P-bass, and where would this line up on the J? I want to get the tone of the p-pickup as close as possible to the P.

I appreciate everyone's input!

 

[nato101010]

People do this all the time. But it will detract from the resale value.

 

[J. Crawford]

1. Severely.
2. The P pickup is farther back towards the bridge than a J neck pickup. So, a totally new route would most likely be needed, with the old covered by a new pickguard.
3. Check number 2.

 

[A-Step-Towards]

If you kept the original guard and pickup it wont detract from the value at all you just put it back to stock and sell it , someone did this to my friend and he was mad a year later when he went to change out the pickups and realized there was a huge hole under the guard.Oh btw dont do this to anyone, bad karma. I told him so thats why you brag about it being so light


I am not sure you could place it in the correct position without it coming off the pickguard a bit.


You know the new american standards come in PJ, maybe buy one of those and swap the neck? or go with warmoth?

 

[Koeda]

Wondered about that once too. I think if you line up the top of the P route with the top of the J route it will be in the 'proper' P position. Will need to bump it up a bit to use a standard J pickguard to cover the whole pup. If I did this I was also going to put a Model J in the bridge to keep down the single coil hum. Here is a layover I did when contemplating it. Lined up the bridge and neck on each overlay.