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Thumb rest installation on a Squier Modified Jaguar bass

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AGrimmDemise

Mar 4, 2012
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#1
I'm looking to sell my Dean to by a Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar bass. While playing my dean a few minutes ago, I noticed how much the thumb restriction was pissing me off. On my first bass, a silvertone revolver, it had a thumb rest in between the bridge and neck pick ups. This dean is a metal bass so it doesn't have that and the split pick up hurts my thumb when i play the E string and move around. I've heard there is a very specific place to put the thumb rest and before i buy one, i'd like to know if any of you can point out to me where this thumb rest would go.

this is a picture of the bass mentioned. Maybe someone could draw an elliptical shape where the rest goes and send the picture to me?

Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Bass (Short Scale Candy Apple Red) | Sweetwater.com


Much appreciated.
 
#2
Since the VM-Squier Modified Jaguar Bass never existed in real life, you can pretty much assume it goes where they all go:::

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#5
I love the VM Jag. So I'm probably going to get it. but I don't play jazz very much, I play grunge and punk so I want to use it as a thumb rest. Also, if you look closely at Krist Novoselic in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit music video, I believe he is using a Jag bass like the one in the link I posted.
 
#7
Although I agree Joe, the Squier Jag is a never was bass, and you could pretty much place the rest as a tugbar if you want, but, the VM jazz in natural, being based on the 70's models, would have had a thumb rest, like this on my VM J:
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They stopped doing the tug bar thing in the late 60's, and moved it up over the E string in the early 70's, IIRC.
All in all, though, unless you are goiinng for some semblance of aesthetic accuracy, it doesn't matter where you place the rest, as long as it's comfortable for your playing style.
 
#8
Yeah - I agree Cliff. I'm just being sarcastically punctilious. The tug bar can go wherever the owner wants it and if preferred, even on the headstock.

Personally I put the tug bars where I do for aesthetics, since I really don't even use it anyway - much like the covers that I instal: they don't get in the way and they create a nice reveal to the instrument.

But then - I'm 462 dog-years old.
 
#12
SurferJoe46 said:
Yeah - I agree Cliff. I'm just being sarcastically punctilious. The tug bar can go wherever the owner wants it and if preferred, even on the headstock.

Personally I put the tug bars where I do for aesthetics, since I really don't even use it anyway - much like the covers that I instal: they don't get in the way and they create a nice reveal to the instrument.

But then - I'm 462 dog-years old.
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Yeah, I pretty much put it on there where it was initially for the "authentic" look, but after I installed the covers, I found it the perfect spot to rest my thumb so the covers wouldn't interfere with my playing there,and I found it helped to get a more authentic 60's/70's type tone playing in that spot. Win-win for me. I get both the authentic look AND sound with it where it is.
 
#16
wherever you want it to be! I have one on my Schecter right between the pickups so that i can play over the bridge pickup while having a place to rest my thumb. And having that huge area to rest the thumb on is great because i can move around to adjust my sound freely, without having to worry about where my thumb will end up.

I made my own thumb rest though, because the Fender style one is too long to cram in between the pickups.
 

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