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The bridge pickup on a jazz bass is physically longer than the neck pickup, which is the easy way to tell which is which. One exception - some early MIM jazz basses
A KickAss II bridge might be able to straighten out the bad string spacing on this bass. The string saddles can be adjusted side to side. I used this bridge on a parts Jazz bass that had the bridge holes drilled off center and it worked out great to re-adjust them.
although I've watched all of your videos .or I should say most.i don't remember this particular bass.can you tell me which one it was that it gave you such fits.
Dave's World of Fun Stuff that's my struggle I mean I'm having trouble even buying my own but only one can dream but once I get my summer job you can bet your buns I'll buy you a kit by he way big fan I have probably seen everything on your channel
I have a jazz bass with Seymour Duncan Apollo pickups. The magnets cut my finger tips. ( I have piss poor technique) What is involved in changing the pickup covers to a type that cover the magnets. Does the covers just pop off? I don’t want to break anything so I didn’t really inspect them to see. The shop that installed the pickups wouldn’t mess with taking the covers off. I don’t know why.
Nothing seems to line up on that bass at all, the G string is almost hanging off the edge of the neck while the E has too much space alongside it and the pickup poles are not lined up between the strings. Those kind of details drive me nuts, they make it look like it was assembled from leftover parts. Oh and it sounded better before the pickup swap IMO too
Ian Clarke I was just about to say the same thing... This isn't the bass where he went to all that work to reposition the bridge, is it? I'll go back and look but I seriously doubt Dave would make a mistake like that...
He didn't 'reposition the bridge', he very carefully put it back where it came from. It needed a piece of wood underneath the bridge to replace what somebody had excavated with a spoon. That bridge was not meant for that bass so you couldn't get it in line if you wanted to. It's not Dave's mistake, he's just working with what he has and I'm sure it plays fine after all is said and done but it is the result of somebody else's experimentation.
Ian Clarke good i thought I was seeing things !! It looked well pissed to me ...I thought he'd shifted the bridge a bit to square it all up ? maybe that was another JB..?
On my jazz bass the pickups are different sizes for the neck and bridge so that the strings are over the pole pieces and I'm pretty sure it's that way on all jazz basses
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