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  1. Hellzero
    Way more than that, mate.
  2. Hellzero
    Due to the Covid-19 situation and severe back problems (67% officially disabled because of it) plus right shoulder injury (non-operable capsulitis from which, after more than 3 years, I will never fully recover), I'm selling all my basses over 4 kilos and also the ones I'm not really using as well as some stuff I don't use. I've also considerably lowered the price for a quick sale. 2012 Fender Jazz Bass Jaco Pastorius Tribute Relic (fretless, of course) ! ABSOLUTELY NO TRADES ! NON NEGOTIABLE PRICE ! Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden : €1550 Euros (£1375 GBP is an approximation and I will only accept payment in Euros) !!! New price is around €3000 Euros, if you can find one... !!! Shipping to United Kingdom is, of course, possible, but with an extra customs fee (VAT + other taxes + courier fee), because U.K. is now outside EEC. In fully working condition and in very good overall condition even if it's been reliced to look like the Custom Shop model. Here are the specifications : Body : select alder Neck : C shape one piece maple (nitrocellulose lacquer) Fingerboard : epoxied Pau Ferro Fretless : 20 postions with side dots and front dots Headstock : 4 in line Pickups : 2 Fender American vintage single coil Jazz Bass Controls : volume, volume, tone Tuners : Fender American Vintage reverse open-gear bass Bridge : Fender 4-saddle American vintage bass Strings spacing at bridge : 20 mm Nut : synthetic bone Strings spacing at nut : 9.5 mm Knobs : Fender knurled flat-top Scale : 34 inches Hardware colour : nickel/chrome Truss rod : one single action vintage-style butt adjust Finish : 3-colour Sunburst (nitrocellulose lacquer) Land of craftsmanship : U.S.A. Serial number : T901957 Year : 07/2012 (checked with Fender Serial Number Lookup) Weight : 4.225 kilos Action : from 1.3 mm under the G string to 1.8 mm under the E string at 12th position (can even go lower, but was perfect for me) Will come with the superb looking and almost brand new original Fender deluxe brown hardshell (gold interior) case, all the goodies and papers. Non-smoking environment as usual. I'm only selling this bass because I'm thinning down the herd for the reasons mentioned above, and I also own a second Jaco fretless... 🤦‍♂️ The bass has been fully set up professionally. It is fitted with a broken in set of Rotosound RS66LD stainless steel strings (45 - 65 - 80 - 105) that really serve the bass (think Jaco). The bass has been professionally reliced and distressed long ago. What you see is what you get ! Look at the photos taken under different angles to see the real condition, which is used and reliced. Link to the Fender model description : https://www.fender.com/en-BE/electric-basses/jazz-bass/jaco-pastorius-jazz-bass/0196208800.html Here is the link to the 43 photos in high resolution : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QyH_jQb8ko6LnK0x6zQV5WC69X2-4Dvi?usp=sharing Don't hesitate to ask for more.
  3. Hellzero
    So, all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
  4. Hellzero
    If the B***** thing hadn't come in, I would have bought it back as it's simply one of the best lightweight combo on battery on the market. Looks like somebody is going to have it. 🙂👍
  5. Hellzero
    You are not going against the grain at all @biro as the EMG's (especially the X series) are indeed terrific sounding on a fretless, but for something different from the usual mwah and/or Jaco tone most of us are after.
  6. Hellzero
    Of course, if you want a "humbucking" pickups set, there are the Fender Noiseless Jazz Bass pickups that are stacked humbuckers with AlNiCo 2 magnets (they are quite close to single coils without their typical bite) : https://www.fender.com/en-GB/accessories/pickups/vintage-noiseless-jazz-bass-pickups/0992102000.html Avoid the Fender Gen 4 Noiseless Jazz Bass pickups that are really not as good sounding as the ones above.
  7. Hellzero
    Now, it should play @Linus27. 😉
  8. Hellzero
    Here's something recorded with the Fender Original (Vintage 62) Jazz Bass pickups (after the intro on a fretted bass). Thema Duo.wav The bass is this one : https://baldman-guitar-relics.blogspot.com/2022/05/202204-vibe-king-body-in-heavy-relicd.html
  9. Hellzero
    Try some AlNiCo 2 pickups, that's what, after close to 4 decades of fretless playing, I found was suiting Jazz Basses the best, corresponding to the tone you're after. But these are not the most common pickups... Here are the ones I know (and almost everything available) : Fender Original Jazz Bass pickups (the closest to the original Jaco tone as it's what you really hear on most of his records, my favourite pickups for the early singing and articulate Jaco tone and more) : https://www.fender.com/en-GB/parts/jazz-bass-parts/original-jazz-bass-pickups/0992123000.html Seymour Duncan Antiquity Jazz Bass pickups (a bit too shy for me) : https://www.seymourduncan.com/single-product/antiquity-jazz-bass Q Pickups Jazz Bass Pickups A2 Aged Relic (slightly overwound with slightly thicker wire : I like these for the extra punch and output, more reminiscent of the latter Jaco tone) : https://reverb.com/item/13613918-jazz-bass-pickups-a2-aged-relic-hand-wound-alnico-2-bridge-neck-fender-by-q-pickups Aero Jazz Bass Type 3 pickups (too dark sounding for me) : https://www.aeroinstrument.com/pickups.html Northern Pickups Vintage Jazz Bass pickups (never tried them, but giving their price and your location, maybe worth trying them) : https://www.northernpickups.co.uk/jazz-bass
  10. Hellzero
    Very nice pair, @DaPhonque ! 👌👍🍾
  11. Hellzero
    Indeed, but also remember that Christophe Leduc is a graduated architect, so finding solutions to a problem is something he is accustomed too. 😉
  12. Hellzero
    Superb ! Simplicity at its best makes this bass even more beautiful !
  13. Hellzero
    Send a message to the seller by clicking on his pseudo (name).
  14. Hellzero
    Quite close to a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard with just a bit more clarity in the notes. And the feel is somewhere between an ebony and an epoxied fingerboard. I own this one : GLWYS, Olaf !
  15. Hellzero
    Yep, @k-sad it is indeed.
  16. Hellzero
    Why I am even bothering after all ? By the way, I'm a medical advisor and can tell you that the most biased peer reviewed double blinded reproducible methodic credible studies are the medical ones... Give me a goal and I'll build you a study aiming exactly to it with the figures you want.
  17. Hellzero
    Can't agree more, Chris.
  18. Hellzero
    Then you can use Cocobolo (Dalbergia Retusa) or Amazonian rosewood (Dalbergia Spruceana) which are both very very very close sound wise to the Brazilian rosewood (Dalbergia Nigra). Pau Ferro (Machaerium Scleroxylon) which is not a rosewood at all is also very close sound wise, but much clearer, and is used on both Fender Jaco Pastorius models.
  19. Hellzero
    @Bassfinger Here's some real science for those naysayers pretending wood doesn't matter, worth reading it and, for some, admitting that it's not because they don't hear any difference that there's none. Also maybe showing their hearing test could help too... Archives of Acoustics.2021.138150.pdf
  20. Hellzero
    Wot ? You mean you're a ballerina in a Spandau ballet. True ?
  21. Hellzero
    In fact, it's all in the way the pickups pick up the strings vibrations coming from the wood cancelling and amplifying at the same time these abovementioned vibrations that are more oscillations than vibrations as the string when picked up is oscillating at a certain frequency also generating complex harmonics, thus creating nods than can be seen with an oscilloscope.
  22. Hellzero
    If you can get some Brazilian rosewood for the fingerboard, it's another key factor to Jaco's tone (whatever some deaf people of this very parish might yell), alongside epoxy and stainless steel round wound Rotosound RS 66 LD strings as partially mentioned before and a very good bridge pickup, of course.
  23. Hellzero
    @Boodang : There's a brand new set for sale on Reverb at the moment : https://reverb.com/item/1497486 That said, I bought (again) a 2012 Fender Jaco Pastorius last week and must say it sounds very very very close to Jaco's tone with the American Vintage pickups fitted. But I might be interested in these pickups too...
  24. Hellzero
    Superb and rare bass, Chris. GLWYS !
  25. Hellzero
    I'm out of missiles for the moment, waiting for the new Russian supply.
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