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Tricked Out Squier Club

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#43
I'll play!
here my VM jazz bass.
replaced almost everything.

Badass II bridge.
BassLines SJB2 set
500K pots and new cap
Black strat style knobs
Graph Tech Tusq
Hipshot Dtuner and the other tuners
strap locks
and...

70's style fender jazz bass decal...

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i like that bass very much. i thinks its one of the best basses (small) money can buy. right out from the box and of course after some mods. the neck is one of the best necks i ever played.
the only thing that make me despondent is the weight.
if it was little lighter, its was the perfect bass for me.
maybe one day i will switch to another light weight body.
 
#44
tomersg said:
I'll play!
here my VM jazz bass.
replaced almost everything.

Badass II bridge.
BassLines SJB2 set
500K pots and new cap
Black strat style knobs
Graph Tech Tusq
Hipshot Dtuner and the other tuners
strap locks
and...

70's style fender jazz bass decal...

P6210011-1.jpg


P6210005.jpg


i like that bass very much. i thinks its one of the best basses (small) money can buy. right out from the box and of course after some mods. the neck is one of the best necks i ever played.
the only thing that make me despondent is the weight.
if it was little lighter, its was the perfect bass for me.
maybe one day i will switch to another light weight body.
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Since you have gone so far already, why not take the neck and everything but the body, into a nice Alder body, either Fender, Squier, Warmoth etc...lots of body blanks available everywhere, finished or not....
 
#45
Okay, like I said my VM Jazz just got Black Jazz bass knobs. I can post a pic but why?

Now, my CV is another story...hot buttered sexy actually!

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Okay, here is the rundown -
Fender 70's Classic Neck (MIM)
Squier CV Body, Bridge, control and neck plate
Dunlop Straplocks
DiMarzio Ultra jazz Pups
Professionally Shielded cavities
Replaced pots (not sure what kind, bass came with 'em)
Fender 62RI Tort pickguard
GHS Brite Flats. (I may change em out for chromes)

As I said, the neck that came on the bass was a great neck (standard CV neck), and the previous owner (TB'er pablomigraine) did an excellent treatment with the finish on the back. But I just don't care for the profile of the stock neck. The blocked neck has a much nicer profile to my liking and made this bass a killer! A Killer I tells ya!
 
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ProfGumby said:
Just like if your not from downstate you don't know how to hold up your hand to show someone where in the State you're from....
:D
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Wat, like this? :D Say ya to da U.P. eh?

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I came from Jackson, about halfway across, close to the wrist =P

I thought about changing my headstock logo to say "Square" because it seems so difficult for people to spell Squier correctly and around here it sounds almost the same :ninja: Kind of like styrofoam. I've heard some guys call it "starfoam"!!
Texas..it's like a whole 'nother country!
 
#55
211dave112 said:
those tuners, as with all tuners, should be fine. Technically speaking tuners cannot slip. Look at the picture below..
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the strings are attached to a shaft connected to the round gear, that gear cannot move unless the tuning peg is turned and that round gear is driven by the tuning peg shaft. As long as the bass is strung properly and tuned 'up' to the note (rather than down, which leaves a difference in tension in the string either side of the nut) then the tuners should hold fine. From what i can tell the only reasons to change tuners is weight, accuracy (more precise ratio's) and cosmetics.


......back on topic, i should hopefully be joining very soon, when my new pickup arrives to put in my refinished bronco bass :bassist:
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Let me rephrase. They did not, strictly speaking, "slip." I misspoke. You are correct.

They did, however, have an unacceptable amount of play in them. Between going forward and backwards, the key moved a percentage of a rotation. The result of that is that they often felt as though they were "slipping" when you changed the direction of tuning. This, combined with what I remember to be a fairly high ratio, made those tuners EXTREMELY hard to use. They also did not hold their tune well at all. Most of my basses, I can tune before a set and not have to touch for the rest of the night. Those would fall out every couple of songs.

I've replaced two sets of those on two basses and I don't regret it.
 
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211dave112 said:
those tuners, as with all tuners, should be fine. Technically speaking tuners cannot slip. Look at the picture below..
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the strings are attached to a shaft connected to the round gear, that gear cannot move unless the tuning peg is turned and that round gear is driven by the tuning peg shaft. As long as the bass is strung properly and tuned 'up' to the note (rather than down, which leaves a difference in tension in the string either side of the nut) then the tuners should hold fine. From what i can tell the only reasons to change tuners is weight, accuracy (more precise ratio's) and cosmetics.


......back on topic, i should hopefully be joining very soon, when my new pickup arrives to put in my refinished bronco bass :bassist:
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+1 Slipping tuners is one of the biggest myths on TB!
 
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before:
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after:
primer painted pickguard
SD 1/4lber wire to the jack, don't need to stinking controls!
black knobs
terlingua sticker
stainless strings
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to who ever said the stock pickup is the same as a 1/4lber, no way it's much hotter and sounds way better
 
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