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Show your ashtrays/pickup covers
- Thread starter yellofury
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Original bridge cover remains on the old girl.
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Actually, they came with the SX basses. I unmounted the bridge ashtray just to try it on for size on a couple of my other 5-string jazz basses with 17-18mm spacing and they were too small. I think the narrow string spacing of the SX basses allows for what I think is probably a standard 4-string sized set of ashtrays to be used. IME, a 5-string jazz Bridge ashtray seems just as elusive today as they've ever been.
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Not mine, but and sweet 57 P that deserves some love.
I love ashtrays! If they were good enough for Leo's early basses, they're certainly good enough for me. Also, I've always hated the look of a standard Fender bridge, so I think that ashtrays cover a multitude of sins. Therefore, I was presented with a quandary when I recently acquired a 2004 Squier Standard Precision Special. It's a PJ design which has a Precision body with a Jazz neck. Which cover to use?
The standard Precision cover?......
Or the Jazz cover?
I chose the Jazz cover for a couple of reasons.... It throws the balance of the body color towards the chrome, which is fine with me since I'm not a huge fan of black basses. Also, the headstock DOES read "Precision", so why not cover the Jazz pickup, leaving the visual focus on the Precision pickup? I also think it delivers a slight "70s Japanese bass" vibe, which I think is cool. So.....this is my entry.
The standard Precision cover?......
Or the Jazz cover?
I chose the Jazz cover for a couple of reasons.... It throws the balance of the body color towards the chrome, which is fine with me since I'm not a huge fan of black basses. Also, the headstock DOES read "Precision", so why not cover the Jazz pickup, leaving the visual focus on the Precision pickup? I also think it delivers a slight "70s Japanese bass" vibe, which I think is cool. So.....this is my entry.
Atelier Z ZPF-3500 pickup fence on my MIJ Fender Jazz '62RI
The bass didn't have any covers when I bought her new; I briefly had a standard-sized Jazz pickup cover fitted over the pickup, then had it reinstalled it over the bridge pickup for fun (hence the extra holes in both the pickguard and the body) before eventually buying this Atelier Z pickup cover on eBay and replacing the first cover with it
I prefer this skinny cover as it doesn't get in the way as much as a standard-sized cover tends to - my style of playing places my thumb forward of the neck pickup and my index and middle fingers directly in between the pickups, and the skinny cover fits nicely over the pickup without hindering my playing
The bass didn't have any covers when I bought her new; I briefly had a standard-sized Jazz pickup cover fitted over the pickup, then had it reinstalled it over the bridge pickup for fun (hence the extra holes in both the pickguard and the body) before eventually buying this Atelier Z pickup cover on eBay and replacing the first cover with it
I prefer this skinny cover as it doesn't get in the way as much as a standard-sized cover tends to - my style of playing places my thumb forward of the neck pickup and my index and middle fingers directly in between the pickups, and the skinny cover fits nicely over the pickup without hindering my playing
Original covers on my 1972 Jazz. In a display case on my wall.
