Richard Jinman

It’s fairly heavy which I believe suggests it’s alder rather than basswood, but beyond that I’m not sure how you find out.

Hi, I’m afraid I don’t. Is there a way to tell?

I'm no expert, but the Aguilars are louder, cleaner and to my ears 'more expressive'. I guess it's something of a more modern tone compared to say Fender vintage pups..... personally, I think they're amazing as the HC design does exactly what it says on the tin. Nothing wrong with the J-45s of course, but I figured if I put premium pups on what is a very lovely bass, I'd have something quite special.

I don't understand 80 per cent of the above, but I'm sure others do

Here's the official explanation for the 9 poles. The J-45 is a coaxial coil design incorporating our air spaced micro-coil system, to reproduce a noise free and Traditional Jazz Bass Sound. Nine evenly spaced direct alnico 2 magnets provide a wide magnetic field to perform equally well on most 4 and 5 string basses. The J45 comes in a black cover with either flush pole pieces or a slight stagger that can accommodate most radii.

I’ll defer to the experts, but here they are in situ before the Aguilars replaced them. They sounded great but I’d always wanted to try the HCs.

Yeah, I think so. Especially when the white goes a bit creamy. 7 jazzes!

Thanks… it is a gorgeous bass

Will take some tomorrow morning and post.

Natural finish BBs…. Always a great look thanks to the absence of the plate. GLWTS.

Sold to @bigthumb. A boomerang bass

Ok, just to be clear, @bigthumbwas first off the mark for this. We’re talking this evening and if for some reason he doesn’t go ahead I’ll refer back to other interested people, thanks

The heady rush of selling my P bass has inspired me to relist my Fender Japan '75 Reissue in Olympic White, with a bound and blocked neck and tort plate. I bought it from @Gareth Hughes on this forum for a very reasonable £700. Since then I’ve swapped (Tim Marten did the work) the Bill Lawrence J45 pups for Aguilar HCs (J45s will be included) and it’s wearing a new set of Thomasik jazz flats. Bass has a few battle scars and small mods - flush straplocks on the upper horn and on the back (in a Dingwall inspired move) and a Kiogon wiring loom with a push/pull series/parallel switch on the tone pot. Serial number is P046083, which puts it at either 1993-1994 or 1999-2002. It’s a lovely thing… looks great, sounds great. Selling because the old adage ‘you can’t have too many jazzes’ was disputed by my wife. Turns out you can have too many. Bass is in Somerset, but can be collected from London EC2 with a bit of notice. I’m asking £675 which seems good value given the pup upgrade. No hard case so postage (at buyer’s expense) would need to be gig bag inside bass box. Weight? Not sure. Will check, but it’s no twinkle toes.

Yeah, I love the idea of basses finding their way back to their original owner. A bit like a Lassie movie (if you're old enough to remember them).

Up for sale is a rather lovely P bass I bought from the excellent @bigthumba while back. I decided I ought to have a P even though I mainly play jazzes and I just don't play it enough to keep it. I'm going to use Mr Thumb's words to describe it. This is a 1995 bass and just wonderful in my humble opinion. The body is nicely off white and the fingerboard lovely and dark. The scratch plate is a replacement red tort that looks so much better than the white one it came with. The pups are stock but the loom has been replaced with a top KiOgon one. It's strung with a newish set of Labella flats. It has small chips, scratches but most notably the dink on the front just above the scratch plate. But apart from that its in nice nick for a 26 yo bass. Weight is roughly 9 lbs 4oz but thats according to the kitchen scales so it may be + - a bit. The nut is 40mm. The bass comes with the Fender tweed case as pictured. I'd prefer collection from London (EC2) or Somerset (TA11 7DT), but can arrange a couier (or you can) at buyer's cost.

Thanks karlfer … you’ve persuaded me to keep it! What’s one more jazz right? WIThDRAWN

Yes, as soon as you photograph the bloody things you realise how good they look and start getting cold feet!

Withdrawn… decided to keep it. Up for sale is my Fender Japan '75 Reissue in Olympic White, with a bound and blocked neck and tort plate. I bought it from @Gareth Hugheson this forum for a very reasonable £700. Since then I’ve swapped (Tim Marten did the work) the Bill Lawrence J45 pups for Aguilar HCs (J45s will be included) and it’s wearing a new set of Thomasik jazz flats. Bass has a few battle scars and small mods - flush straplocks on the upper horn and on the back (in a Dingwall inspired move) and a Kiogon wiring loom with a push/pull series/parallel switch on the tone pot. Serial number is P046083, which puts it at either 1993-1994 or 1999-2002. It’s a lovely thing… looks great, sounds great. Selling because the old adage ‘you can’t have too many jazzes’ was disputed by my wife. Turns out you can have too many. Bass is in Somerset, but can be collected from London EC2 with a bit of notice. I’m asking £675 which seems good value given the oversupply of pups. No hardcase so postage (at buyer’s expense) would need to be gigbag inside bass box. Weight? Dunno. Will check, but it’s no twinkle toes.

Hi, does the battery sit in a standard jazz bass cavity? No modification of the body required?