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Wow!!! This is an old thread and it's still being replied to. I've been gassin' for a jazz bass for a while now, and I'm thinkin' it just might be the VM '77 Jazz for me. Love the black-on-black look, and the maple fretboard just looks sooo sexy, and I've always prefered Jazz basses with maple boards anyway. Once I decide to make one mine, I'll be posting again, asking for my number. I agree with others here. I have A/B'd these against the MIM Fenders, and the Squire VM's are every bit as good, or better.:bassist:
 
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ilovenofrets said:
I've been gassin' for a jazz bass for a while now, and I'm thinkin' it just might be the VM '77 Jazz for me. Love the black-on-black look, and the maple fretboard just looks sooo sexy...
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I played one of these last week. I've played several of the other VM Js (natural wood finish) and dug them, but this '77 VM was the business.

I don't even play Js, but it was hard to put this one down.
 
#406
Here's mine! Since gotten new bridge and tuners.

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#410
Just got covers for my VM Jazz, now it looks complete! Just like the 70's Jazz basses that turned me onto Fenders in the first place back when I started playing:
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I'll have to adjust my playing style a little, but I can handle it.
Love all that maple, black, and chrome. Snazzy!
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#418
I am a tinkerer, and have changed pickups in many of the basses I have owned. I kind of wanted to change the ones in the amber VMP I have, but then I thought "Why? Just to change them? Is there anything you don't like about the DDs that came in it?".

Can't think of a reason to change them. I did change the bridge to one of the HiMass ones from a 50s CV and I put the Hipshot Ultralight tuners on, but the main reason for those changes was to alter the balance a little and help with the neck dive issues, not because there was anything wrong with the stock bridge or tuners.
 
#419
You may well have struck a nerve there with me about the CVs too.

I think I didn't like the very much rounder more-radiused neck - I felt as though I was gonna fall off the edges to get a G or an E string - but maybe it was the weight of the neck too.

As I remember it - the CVs had a pretty nasty head dive and of course this was on my 'testing' strap that I have in my car when I go to GC every time.

If I had gotten it home and put a real leather strap on it, it might've turned out better.
 
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SurferJoe46 said:
I think I didn't like the very much rounder more-radiused neck - I felt as though I was gonna fall off the edges to get a G or an E string - but maybe it was the weight of the neck too.
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Don't the CVs and VMs both have 9 1/2" radius fingerboards?

Or are you referring to the profile of the neck itself rather than the fingerboard?

As I remember it - the CVs had a pretty nasty head dive and of course this was on my 'testing' strap that I have in my car when I go to GC every time.
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I have a CV Olympic White / Tort Jazz and it seems to have less neck dive stock than the VMP did when it was stock, although the VMP is now perfectly balanced after the mods.

I think the Jazz's body is heavier and the Jazz's slim neck is lighter, that probably helps with the balance.
 
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