CHRISDABASS

[quote name='artisan' post='174580' date='Apr 11 2008, 02:47 PM']"the MIA (S1 now with j retro) is stayin exactly as it is!!! perfection!" aaahhhhh i can breath easy again now,for a moment i thought you were going to butcher the most perfect jazz bass i've ever played/owned she is a beaut' aint she.[/quote] honestly ive never had a bass like it! every time ive played it with the band ive noticed that there is something special about it! there's nothing missing! do you know what i mean? all my bass playing life there's always been that little something missing in my sound, somethin i was continually searching for! and ive had a lot of basses along the way!! and i mean a lot!! so yeah im my search seems to be over! really happy with it!! putting this other one together has been a really good experience too! ive come out with a stunning instrument that i'd say is as good as that perfect jazz mentioned above!! im a very happy man!!

hey everyone! i have completed my little project of swapping necks and bridges around! IVE CREATED A MONSTER!!! HAHAHAHA so here's what the bass is made up from a bravewood body badass 2 bridge wizard 84 pick ups jap geddy lee neck and it now has a audere 2 band pre with z mode switch!! and the verdict??.............AWESOME!! pics will be up sometime soon

welcome to basschat! id love to see pics of that sandberg bass of yours sometime

hey im really glad your enjoyin that beautiful red ray i sold you! its the best ive ever played! hope your well man

[quote name='Jobiebass' post='172049' date='Apr 8 2008, 09:43 AM']is it your geddy your changing the neck of with your new jazz??? or did you get more GAS and get another jazz?[/quote] its the geddy neck and bridge on my bravewood body the MIA (S1 now with j retro) is stayin exactly as it is!!! perfection!

[quote name='Beedster' post='171933' date='Apr 7 2008, 11:39 PM']Mate, I have five Precisions and I've swapped necks so many times I forget which neck came with which body Do it, find your perfect bass and have some fun, I love the clip of Jaco swapping a fretted Precision neck for a fretless Jazz neck during the 'Modern Electric Bass' DVD. When all's said and done, bodies and necks are rarely made specifically for each other (especially at Fender), and although it might devalue a vintage bass to swap necks (although even most Fender 'experts' can't really tell whether a neck is truly original to a specific body as Fender used to mix and match to such a degree), who cares Chris[/quote] NICE ONE!! looks like im gonna be up a while now!! cant wait to see, here, feel the results!

[quote name='BassManKev' post='171919' date='Apr 7 2008, 11:22 PM']go for it, why the hell not? [/quote] hahaha too right i like your attitude! and hey if the worst comes to the worst they're fenders i can always put em back together

[quote name='610*c' post='171892' date='Apr 7 2008, 11:05 PM']Will these chamges improve thing's??? Or is it just an experiment??[/quote] well.........here's the thing! i really like the maple neck on one of my basses but it happens to be a pretty heavy instrument (which im not a fan of).......meanwhile i have a jazz that is super light (it feels like half the weight) but it has a rosewood board which im not as keen on! and this lighter bass also has better pickups.....so..........if i put the maple neck onto the lighter body (which has the good pickups) then surely after a bit of tweeking here and there i will end up with the best of both worlds?! and then i will also end up with a slightly heavy bass with a rosewood board! but at the end of the day i will have all the elements that i love in one bass rather than not being quite happy with them as they were originally ooh it food for thought!

just wondered what you guys thought ......is it wrong to start swapping necks and bridges etc around on your jazz basses?? just somethin im thinkin about trying lol

hi have you dealt with me in the past?? how did it go?? cheers chris

hi i use Event TR8XL's (they are active) 150 watts each, they are bi amp'd between the 8 inch speaker and the tweeter, they have great bass response and they are designed to go up against a wall as they are ported only at the front! i think the event range has been updated since i bought mine about 5 years ago but im sure there will be something similar!

here's my collection (so far) ok so from left to right we have my blonde stack knob bravewood jazz, my (i think its a 2007) USA fender jazz with j retro (thanks to artisan ), my jap geddy lee (thanks to rob for this one), and finally a year 2000 USA jazz! that one isn't actually mine! it belongs to the singer in one of my bands! i borrowed it ages ago and its still hangin around in my house lol and looking back to about a year ago all i had was Warwicks!! oh how things change!! hope you enjoy the pictures! i know i said i would stop buying/swapping basses but i think i could do with a nice precision...............dont you?? lol

has anyone seen / played on one of these?? im probably gonna start some kind of arguement but............the "relic" process on these can look sooooo over done! any thoughts? experiences? cheers guys