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Squier Jaguar Short Scale Club Part 3

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kawabama said:
May I get a Jag SS Club number?

I played with the band last night and WOW! The tone and sustain were amazing from this little guy. Sound in the mix was awesome and the tones available were quite impressive. This is my first P/J style bass, and I am ecstatic.

I can't find the post I found the other day on tone and volume controls upgrades. Are there better drop in pot options for improved linearity? I really only have the last 1/4 turn to make adjustment.
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No offense, but I need a pic for a club number.

Sorry to the rest of the delay. Apparently I need to cleanup my thread notification since notifications for this thread get lost in the "noise".

If I've missed anyone, please PM me.
 
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Balkan said:
Here's mine.

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Very Nice!
 
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len13 said:
Were you able to smooth/prep and paint over the existing finish or did you strip it down to wood?
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the original black finish is there underneath. I sanded the gloss off and then sprayed several coats of nitro primer. Apparently the stripping would have required several hours with a heat gun. Sometimes I wish I had done that - just so when it relics eventually the black won't show.

. . . Interestingly, I did easily and unintentionally sand through the black on the headstock in a couple spots. I guess they don't seal those with the same impenetrable finish as the bodies.
 
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Balkan said:
the original black finish is there underneath. I sanded the gloss off and then sprayed several coats of nitro primer. Apparently the stripping would have required several hours with a heat gun. Sometimes I wish I had done that - just so when it relics eventually the black won't show.
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Balkan said:
the original black finish is there underneath. I sanded the gloss off and then sprayed several coats of nitro primer. Apparently the stripping would have required several hours with a heat gun. Sometimes I wish I had done that - just so when it relics eventually the black won't show.
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Ahhh...that black peeking through will just add to the mystery, as the future Squier collectors struggle to valuate this destined to be classic SS Jag....
I am thinking of painting my black one as well....Also removing the frets.
 
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len13 said:
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Ahhh...that black peeking through will just add to the mystery, as the future Squier collectors struggle to valuate this destined to be classic SS Jag....
I am thinking of painting my black as well....Also removing the frets.
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HaHa - yes just like Fender did back in the day when a custom color was ordered.

You should go for it!

This was my first refin and I hadn't really worked with wood or ever used a soldering iron before either, so it was fun and I learned a lot. (I was actually kind of bummed that the geezer pickups are solderless - I wanted to use my new skill!)
 
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Have just upgraded the pickups in my ss jag, i went for the Seymour duncan SPB-2 Hot for P bass and SJB-3 Quarter Pound for Jazz for the bridge pickup.

Thoughts on this are as follows, the Quarter pound bridge pickup is a big improvement as now the output pretty much matches the p pickup , the SPB-2 for P Bass is an improvement on the stock p pickup but not night and day it is more like it is the same basic tone but with a little more mids , that being said this is my experience with pickup swaps in general and I am happy with the upgrade. The fact that the SPB-2 is the same basic tone with a little more mids can also be seen as testament to the fact that the stock P pickup is actually pretty good on this bass.
I think also that I would probably notice the difference more if I was using roundwounds, obviously the Labella flatwounds I am using have a narrower tonal range than roundwounds have.

The big surprise is that the Quarter Pound bridge pickup has more mids than I thought it would, it does not have that much low mids but the high mids are definitely there, it seems that the high frequencies peak somewhere in the high mids and then start to gradually drop off after that
 
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shoulderpet said:
....I think also that I would probably notice the difference more if I was using roundwounds, obviously the Labella flatwounds I am using have a narrower tonal range than roundwounds have.....
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I think I'm going back to rounds on my Jag too. A few posts back, I showed the stacked knob, DD pickup transplant, and said it wasn't a huge difference.
After playing it for a while, I now think it is.
I didn't think the stock J was as useless as everyone says, but the DD is a definite improvement - much nicer tone and volume.
I think the stock P was pretty good, and also like the new one I put in, but it seems a bit darker.

The tone knobs actually do something now, but overall, the bass seems to go from kind of dark to really dark.
With both volumes maxed, it gives a kind of hollow sound that I like, and the volume doesn't seem to drop as much as it did before.
There's 10 detents on each tone knob, and I can dial in lots of different tones,
with the J being useable for all of them, and even sounding very good on its own.
I have flats on it now, but am going to try putting rounds back on.
I'll bet the differences will be even more noticeable.
 
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felis said:
I think I'm going back to rounds on my Jag too. A few posts back, I showed the stacked knob, DD pickup transplant, and said it wasn't a huge difference.
After playing it for a while, I now think it is.
I didn't think the stock J was as useless as everyone says, but the DD is a definite improvement - much nicer tone and volume.
I think the stock P was pretty good, and also like the new one I put in, but it seems a bit darker.

The tone knobs actually do something now, but overall, the bass seems to go from kind of dark to really dark.
With both volumes maxed, it gives a kind of hollow sound that I like, and the volume doesn't seem to drop as much as it did before.
There's 10 detents on each tone knob, and I can dial in lots of different tones,
with the J being useable for all of them, and even sounding very good on its own.
I have flats on it now, but am going to try putting rounds back on.
I'll bet the differences will be even more noticeable.
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Yes I am definitely a flatwound person but I may try rounds on this bass briefly just to see what the pickup upgrade offers in terms of tones , the Labella's I have on at the moment are great strings but having fairly limited treble and being focused more on the lows and low mids they may not be giving an accurate representation of the upgrade, after all you cant boost what is not there
 
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I'm thinking of running just one volume pot and taking the other volume and and tone pot out of circulation. When I play I have everything dimed on the bass anyhow.
I wonder if it would have a positive effect on the tone.....
 
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Evil Undead said:
I know @GBassNorth has put an East preamp in his
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Yes I did and it was a very tight fit even after I routed a battery storage area in the body (under the pickguard).

To be honest, it made a great sounding bass greater, but probably not worth the bother unless you have a spare preamp laying around that you really like. I had a spare custom East preamp left over from another build and thought I'd give it a try in the Jag. Its a three stacked pot preamp (vol/blend, treb/bass, treb/bass) with the neck PU voiced for a P bass and the bridge PU voiced for a Stingray. I had my fingers crossed that the preamp would cure the anemic stock bridge pickup on the Jag SS but it really didn't. It sounds better but its still anemic compared to the neck PU.

If I had it all to do over again I'd keep the stock passive controls and instead replace the stock pickups with Geezers. From what I've heard, hey are much better balanced in volume than the Squier offerings. The option would be the magnet hack that is mentioned in this thread.

Here's a pic of the modded Jag SS (next to a modded Jazz 5 and a modded Bronco)....
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