Fenix Jazz Bass by Young Chang

[KiOgon]

I have just picked up, courtesy of Freegle or Freecycle as it was, a bit of a dog jazz that has been poorly de-fretted, bits & pieces missing etc. With a bit of TLC it'll be 'workable' I'm sure looks like a RI model, with brass link from bridge to pick up.

Thing is, having never heard the name/make before I thought I'd google it, like you do first thing that caught my attention was this gumtree ad: [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/fenix-jazz-bass-by-young-chang--sunburst-tortoise/107799274"]http://www.gumtree.c...toise/107799274[/url]

Plese tell me they're not worth £299!

Interesting from wikipedia: [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Chang"]http://en.wikipedia....iki/Young_Chang[/url]

Cheerz, John

Anyone want pictures? sorry removed because of unlimited access it seems!

Edited September 18, 2014 by KiOgon

[Big_Stu]

It was probably a new price for a later model. I had an early 90's Fenix Tele & it cost me £195 new then. The Fenix range had very good reviews & the early ones were made at the same factory for a while as the Squiers of the time. There's another Fenix thread on here somewhere.

IIRc, the pickups were a bit microphonic & the frets were softer than you'd expect (possibly why yours was defretted?)

[KiOgon]

Even the strings I found in the bag are OK, an assortment of Flatwounds & the bag is a Ritter as good as new with the label on still.

All in all - not bad for a freebie

[KiOgon]

I can see nobody is interested in my latest acquisition but just in case anybody reads this

What do you think? Relic or not to relic, that is the question I've never been a great fan of the relic thing but confronted with an old beater that's 1/2 way there already, I am tempted

Pictures of how it is in 1st post.

[Big_Stu]

I don't like fretless, but it looks a bit too far gone to be either cleaned up as fretless or refretted.

If it was me, I'd be looking for a fretted Squier neck in For Sale, or see if it could be sanded back & have the slots filled, but I think you'd have to sand so far back you'd lose too much fingerboard, even with the neck shimmed.

[KiOgon]

I've got another neck (fretted) all ready to fit, not a problem, but the original fretboard may not be as bad as it looks it the pictures. I've cleaned it with surgical spirits, set the truss rod so it's now flat & ready to sand. Having looked at it with a 9.5 radius sanding block on , it's not bad.

[Schnozzalee]

What is the purpose of the bridge to pickup brass? Always wondered what those were!!

[KiOgon]

Ground/earth contact - bridge to pick up ground plate, then wired to back of pots etc.

[Schnozzalee]

Ahh, thankyou - that's puzzled me for 8 years lol