New bass day! kind of..

[jackhammer]

Hi all!

as you may know i purchased myself a squier vintage modified jazz bass, i also picked up some pickup ( ) covers and traditional bass knobs, lowered the awfully high action and gave it a nice setup, spacers underneath the knobs too as they were sitting really high up from the control plate!

hope you like!

also, my new pedal board is in the bottom pic, as feeble as my pedal collection may be

please, comments welcome!







Jack

[Doctor J]

It's a looker, that's for sure.

[ezbass]

What's not to like? Squier should take note and offer this as an option.

[gjones]

It is very pretty but if you can play your bass with those pickup covers on you're a better man than me. I fitted a set and had to take them right back off again because I couldn't get anywhere near the strings.

Edited May 5, 2012 by gjones

[Oopsdabassist]

Yup added both and removed the neck cover straight away on my MIM Jazz, still got the bridge cover on though.

[jackhammer]

Im sloowwwwly getting used to playing with them on, and it's only been a few hours, so hopefully soon enough I'll be a pro

[KingBollock]

They look lovely, but I don't understand why anyone would limit themselves in such a way. I move all over the strings with my plucking hand to get different tones depending on what I'm playing. It's probably a completely wrong technique, but it works for me.

[Jones_Stuff]

Looks great; always been a fan of the big chrome covers.

Action looks nice and low too.

Edited May 5, 2012 by Jones_Stuff

[jackhammer]

Yeah possibly a little too low on the E and G tbh, going to play around with it tomorrow get it going right!
I'm surprised no ones noticed the fact that I've used the pickguard screws to fix the covers to the bass! Haha what a cowboy eh? New screws coming tomorrow though! Along with a shiny new pickguard, anyone guess a colour?

[Jones_Stuff]

I'm gonna go with either tort or white.

[CBbass]

Tasteful mods, nice to see someone modding a Squier and not putting a Fender logo on. I don't care for the plates personally as they get in the way of my playing but some like them. I hope you enjoy your bass!

[chrismuzz]

I love the way they look! But always wondered what they are actually for

[gub]

Looks the bizz ! I am thinking maybe black pearl for the scratch plate ? Btw what screws you getting as this cowboy has them fixed on with the same as are in the plate

[jackhammer]

All pretty close, white pearl screws im using are exactly the same mate! They seem to be a perfect fit IMO! Thanks for the comments!

[jackhammer]

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1336270714' post='1643432']
I love the way they look! But always wondered what they are actually for
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I'm wondering th same thing! Haha! Ive been told they're 'supposed' to reduce single coil hum! Don't know how true that is however

[Jones_Stuff]

A bassist friend I know says he has one as armour plating for his pickup! At a rough show he was playing somebody launched a bottle at him and it bounced off his guard. Pretty neat anecdote I thought.