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Post subject: My Vintage 75 Jazz Bass body is so odd~Help me!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:13 am
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This body wood is so odd~
I think it's bad ASH wood :cry: ...You think that??? Help me please!!!!


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Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:23 am
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God, it almost looks like oak :D


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Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 1:18 pm
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Its Ash and its beautiful! What do you find odd about it?

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Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 3:27 pm
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it definiely is ash and a nice piece of it at that. I was being facetious saying it was Oak :wink: ...I have a friend that made a bass out of oak once thinking that it would have tremendous sustain...needless to say, it was so heavy that it was almost unplayable, plus it had almost no tone...oak is definitely NOT a tone wood 8)


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Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 2:33 am
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Because this ASH Wood vein are not straight~
it's so much circle~


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Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 1:58 am
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Yes,I have the same question.

Is this ASH a nice piece???I mean, is it a relly nice wood??


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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 12:46 am
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Ash is a very nice wood and your Jazz bass has a very nice looking body made out of multiple pieces of ash.
Ash is also used to make baseball bats, but it sounds great when used to make guitars and basses.

Ash has a very prominent grain, which is why Fender uses it on many of their natural finished instruments.

If you don't like the grain pattern of ash, then there is nothing that I can say, because that is your opinion.

If you want a less prominent wood grain on your bass, then buy a bass made of alder, like used on some sunburst Fenders and custom color basses.

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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 4:42 am
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OK.Thank you very much~


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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 2:10 pm
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Yeah NOTHING wrong with that -- beautiful wood grain!


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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 1:36 pm
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Wood has many permiatations...Whether that grain is good for acoustic reasonance is a Q for a luthier... I think it looks fantastic..Unique i would say..Thats whats great about natural Jazzez, and basses in general, they are not all the same, because of the wood characteristics...Wood is what gives basses and guitars there personality..

Does it sound good??


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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 1:41 pm
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I have the same bass..Awsome slapmachine..

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:54 am
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1st of all it is a beautiful piece to say the least,and from what I can see the grain pattern looks alot like my 74 which was Northen Ash,and would make this piece a lot closer to Period of correctness than what the U.S. 75 RI is,which btw the U.S. 75 RI uses Southern Swamp Ash which gives the bass a more Boomier/Modern type bright tone,than more so than a true vintage tone,but anyway that's a damn nice piece


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