Slappin mah bass

tomin8r · Post by **tomin8r** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:15 am

I picked up a Bronco bass for my needs, the stock pup is crap/decent, so I put a hot rail and thicker strings on it, and for the money, its a pretty damn good bass.

Also, due to the price, you can mod it out pretty well and still have a good bass for cheap.

Cheers

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 7:01 am

the stock pup is a squier strat bridge pick up.

i pulled mine out and replaced it with a seymour duncan hot rails
but it sounded wonky
so i'm waiting for an SD basslines single coil

LANK

Viljami · Post by **Viljami** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 5:19 pm

Didn't somebody here replace the pup to a red Lace Sensor? That's what I'd do, anyway ('coz I'm not original).

Mr.Ripley · Post by **Mr.Ripley** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:42 pm

serfx wrote: so i'm waiting for an SD basslines single coil

I was actually planning on doing the same with my musicmaster bass but when I realized it didn't fit through the pickguard I just kinda left the project to the side. I'm still debating whether to get a new pickguard or try and file the plastic on top to fit through the original :/

MStone · Post by **MStone** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:50 am

I've been regularly checking for basses's, and I've come across another one: Goomtree

Does anyone know about the serial numbers on Jazz Basses's? Apparently, the neck plate reads 230590, and he claims it is vintage..

Is that a reasonable price? The only shops I really know about are all on Denmark St - and the prices there seem to be quite a bit higher than I imagine they should. But I don't know. What should one be paying for a Jazz Bass in the UK?

S'il vous plait.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:08 pm

Hmmm, he doesn't really seem to know what he has there, so I don't think he should be describing it as vintage.

Â£450 seems an awful lot, but maybe it isn't.

MStone · Post by **MStone** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:14 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:Â£450 seems an awful lot, but maybe it isn't.

See, that's what I was thinking...

Anybody in the UK care to share what they paid for their Jazz Bass? Or Miscellaneous Bass?

kim · Post by **kim** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:49 pm

it's abviously not this :

http://www.rockpalace.com/en/product/Fe ... k-Rosewood

control knobs, shade of the headstock etc

this ?

ask for more detailed pics and stuff maybe to find out wtf it really is.

kim · Post by **kim** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:50 pm

on the last pic the stuff on the headstock is not the same.

this is just a gut feeling but i think it's a fender japan jazz bass.

MStone · Post by **MStone** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:28 pm

He does mention it has a Japanese neck pickup, so perhaps the whole lot is from Japan.

It also has one of those "finger rest"? thingys on the pickguard... (absent in the wiki picture).

Google tells me Japanese Fenders are of good quality - anybody disagree?

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:30 pm

Japanese Fenders are excellent. It seems odd that the only modification he mentions is adding a Japanese pickup.

kim · Post by **kim** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:36 pm

yeah i'm sort of wondering it looks too 'new' to be an actual vintage jazz, 70's with the 'f' neckplate but fender japan guitars and that 'f' neckplate seems to make sense, also the darkened finish on the neck and headstock scream out fender japan, the 'new' american 'vintage' jazzes with pup covers have 2 chrome knobs and the rosewood 'stripe' in the neck, no idea about vintage but it's also another thing that makes me think it's a fender japan jazz maybe with just pup covers added because i don't see pup covers in the fender japan catalogue...

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:22 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:Japanese Fenders are excellent. It seems odd that the only modification he mentions is adding a Japanese pickup.

Especially since the pickups are generally what are taken out of a Japanese bass and replaced with better ones

It does seem a little expensive, but also looks like a pretty nice bass. I'm with the others on the vintage thing... but, people are referring to instruments as young as the early 90s as "vintage" these days...