I love it! Answers bringing forth more intelligent questions!!
I see,
Appreciate the info yo!
So as for the Japan RI neck, How do the Japan RI necks compare to USA RI necks? (or other MIM / USA for that matter).
Also note the neck mentioned is 2004, I've heard Japan has some good and bad years..
I haven't heard about good or bad years from Japanese-made Fenders. Most of the time, I just hear a lot of praise. My only negative experience with an MIJ neck wasn't because of faulty construction, but rather it's vintage. It was a neck made in the 1980's, so it was built along slightly different specifications. The heel of the neck was too big to fit any recently-made bodies.
In the end, I sold it to a TalkBass member who had an older "Jazz Bass Special", like the kind Duff McKagan played during his Guns n' Roses years, and it fit that body perfectly.
I almost had a similar problem attaching an Aerodyne neck to a Mighty Mite Jazz bass body. The neck heel fit perfectly, but the screw holes didn't
exactly match up. However, I was able to get it into position by putting on the strings and gradually increasing their tension to pull the neck in enough to seat the screws in place.
With that in mind, I would be prepared to do a little extra work if you want to go with a Made In Japan neck. Oh, one other thing…
As for the lefty thing I don't really care. it might be cool.. dunno.. Just hope it dosen't come off as a trying too hard to be cool.
Another thing I thought of...
Would the P bass neck really increase the string spacing by that much, or would I have to also change the bridge aswell?
It shouldn't affect the string spacing over the body that much…maybe by a millimeter or two…nothing significant. Certainly not enough to replace the bridge. But aside from the setup you'll need to do when installing a new neck, if you use a lefty neck, you will have to replace the nut.
Also, I may be way off with this but I'll ask anyway:
Do different necks affect the output of a guitar?
Meaning - If the Jazz pickups are designed to pickup a certain type of sound and the neck on the guitar is giving em something else, would that sound good? bad?
It's a good question, but it's also a "loaded" one. The "tone-wood debate" over which woods lend themselves to this-or-that sound has, and probably will, rage on for years to come. Some threads, many of which had nothing to do with "tone-woods" in the first place, have turned into awful catfights, drowning out the original point of the thread.
Me? I'm a bit skeptical and haven't seen enough hard science to sway me one way or the other, so I'm just going to say,
"I don't know!". One thing I can say, though, is I've had a lot of experience with how
"Strings" having a major impact on the sound of an instrument.
BTW, I won't divulge how many times I looked at those basses before I caught the Blues Brothers reference.
For shame, my son.
For your penance, say three Hi-Dee-Hi-Dee-Ho's and go on one Mission-From-God before bedtime and all shall be forgiven.
