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    [quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1332612475' post='1590757'] Loads you woulnt sing, I wouldnt have sung whn they were new. Stones, Stray Cat Blues for nstance. Diferent times dont justify images like these ..... [/quote] Not a problem in Japan.... .
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    I've got Jap gas....
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    [quote name='mercuryl' timestamp='1332599002' post='1590516'] Do Badass bridges actually make any difference? [/quote] I suppose it's a matter of taste. They certainly don't make a Jazz Bass sound more like a Jazz Bass. They offer mildly more sustain and some say a more 'level' sound across the Hz band. I always take them off pre-owned Fenders and replace with an OEM type. I find quite a number of Japanese and 'standard' Fender basses have this mod. I'm sure some players find the characteristics of the Badass valuable but I've never found that to be the case [b][i]for me[/i][/b] in live or recording stuations with the bands I play in.
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    [quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1332493282' post='1588969'] The plan is that it will be the back-up to my main gigging bass which is an Ibanez Blazer. [/quote] That'll change. Mark my words.
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    [quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1332519322' post='1589541'] more like one of these hosers i reckon [/quote] They're very clean. Anyway: who's Geddy Lee...? I'll get me coat.
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    [quote name='bigsmokebass' timestamp='1332349324' post='1587117'] Fender milking us once again, think I'll move on now. [/quote] You don't have to be milked. Move on, now.
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    [quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1332447627' post='1588629'] Seller says serial number is S028XXX. [/quote] That'll be 1995 - one of the first photoflames. [quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1332321668' post='1586467'] ....It's been offered to me for £340 including gigbag. It's miles away from me, so I'm buying it without seeing it. Worth a punt? [/quote] At the price... bite his hand off. .
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    [quote name='mercuryl' timestamp='1332428292' post='1588231'] Do they not normally have more than that written on the headstock? [/quote] They have a facsimilie of the '62 Spag logo. Just 'Fender' and 'Precision Bass'. [quote name='Sean' timestamp='1332429565' post='1588271'] Not all CIJ basses are basswood. [/quote] OPB 51 SD - Ash PB 57 - Basswood PB 57 US - Alder PB 62 - Basswood PB 62 US - Alder PB 62 VSP - Alder PB 70 - Basswood PB 70 ASH - Ash PB 70 US ASH - Ash Fender Japan website states PB 70 is alder, but it it isn't..., it's basswood. Hope this helps. .
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    [quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1332179867' post='1584418'] Fender's own '75 RI pickups from the US version are available as '75 Vintage'. They are excellent pickups IMO [/quote] +1. Custom Shop '60's overwound are fantastic. Nice and open sounding like the original with a bigger midrange. I love 'em. Stay prominent in a live band mix even with all the treble rolled orf. What [i]is [/i]that? An excellent pickup. Use CTS 250k solid shaft pots.... and never mind that .022uF capacitor thang, get yourself a paper in oil .047uF. Actually, do that first, coz once you hear it you might think twice about feeling the need swap pickups out and stuff. There's not a lot wrong with those Jap pickups. As for changing the bridge, I never saw fit on a quality Jazz Bass, and that Jap hardware is good quality. A Jazz Bass is as a Jazz Bass does. .
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    [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1332259453' post='1585706'] If you have a beer gut then a slab can be quite uncomfortable. So I've heard. [/quote] ....and if you're really bony it can be [b][i]damned[/i][/b] uncomfortable!
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    Looks to me very much as noted above. I sold one of these for £425 in May 2011. As far as I've learned they were made across the transition from MIJ to CIJ from 1995 to 1998 tho' I'm open to correction on that. From that period.... if it's MIJ it will have a U, N or V prefix, CIJ will have an A or an O prefix. Hope this helps. .
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    [quote name='keithrobbo' timestamp='1332372513' post='1587554'] [/quote] Keith.... tell us that's not your finger!
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    [quote name='groovygibbo' timestamp='1332266332' post='1585834'] Why is there no interest in this! [/quote] Folks is brokes, boss.
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    Jazz

    mckendrick replied to jezzaboy's topic in Gear Gallery

    [quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1331156727' post='1568745'] I can see why [/quote] ...mmm.
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    Stop me, I'm gassin' already.... ....and I really can't afford another just yet.
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    [quote name='2x18' timestamp='1322341939' post='1449762'] Nice colour for a Mustang! -- But I thought the Competition version had a colour matched headstock! [/quote] It ain't neccesarily so, two by. Reletively few CIJ Mustangs have been adorned with that feature. It's a figbox of the imagination created by the very fact that they are more noticable by their rarity, as it were. [quote name='CyberBass' timestamp='1322344476' post='1449825'] Is the serial number correct? Have tried to find dating info and can't seem to find serial number info for po with 5 numerics [/quote] It's P 0xxxxx [quote name='Shambo' timestamp='1323156456' post='1459801'][quote] serial P 074551 @ [url="http://www.guitardaterproject.org/fender.aspx"]http://www.guitardat...org/fender.aspx[/url][/quote] Your guitar was made at the Fuji-gen Plant (for Fender Japan), Japan in the Year(s): 1993 - 1994[/quote] s/n Pxxxxxx 93/94 applies to MIJ's. This'll be a CIJ Pxxxxxx s/n produced between 1999 and 2002 as Jap Mustangs weren't introduced until 1999. .
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    SOLD!

    mckendrick replied to TomTom's topic in Basses For Sale

    [quote name='Shockwave' timestamp='1331292326' post='1570823']Bit annoyed photos of my cat are being used though :S [/quote] Your cat appears to have an exceedingly long tail, Shock. Nice lookin' bass. Cat with long tail type bump.
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    [quote name='Ghost Rider' timestamp='1331562499' post='1574811'] I did'nt look at the past history but yeah your right - I hope he gets crabs too! [/quote] ....probably off his uncle. Yeah, Bubba.
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    Well that wasn't going to hang about, eh? Nice piece, Doc. Congrats on the sale. Like it wasn't going to happen. .
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    Big bump for a great bass at a great price. I have one of these and it's killer, I can tell thi'. .
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    Been a Jazz player for years. That envelope is huge. Ethereal analogue tones. A little compression at the right Hz at the gig evens out the high-neck low-neck differential. Like an old faithfull undying love affair. Recently acquired P (from Flat Eric via Danweb).... changing the saddles for grooved vintage style puts the strings right between the pole-pieces, vintage Fender Gotohs with a 28:1 ratio fined up the tuning slackness... went to town and dropped in CTS pots and overwound custom shop '62 P-Bass pick-ups.... dream Precison, chaps.... [i]dream[/i] Precision. Like a new youthful bit on the side. The Jazz is still me go-to mind, tho' loving the P. So different.
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    Fabs. No competition.
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    [quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1331433290' post='1572843'] Bob became my dads brother [/quote] Dude.... we're cousins! Welcome aboard.
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    [quote name='daz' timestamp='1331353816' post='1571812'] Awful colour though. [/quote] No, no.... you're mistaken.
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    [quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1331581506' post='1575343'] Unless you are selling it, the only value it has is in being played. Play the shiz out of it, it has been waiting for that to happen for a long time. [/quote] Word up.
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