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Post subject: Pups on a 1996 MIM Fretless Jazz
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:26 pm
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Im wondering if Fender has changed its Jazz Bass pickups since 1996, because I just bought a new pickguard for my Jazz bass and the stock pups didnt fit into the cutout on the pickguard, so I had to cut the hole bigger. It just made me wonder if the pups were larger in 1996 than what they are today.


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Post subject: Re: Pups on a 1996 MIM Fretless Jazz
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:28 am
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bluesbassist56 wrote:
Im wondering if Fender has changed its Jazz Bass pickups since 1996, because I just bought a new pickguard for my Jazz bass and the stock pups didnt fit into the cutout on the pickguard, so I had to cut the hole bigger. It just made me wonder if the pups were larger in 1996 than what they are today.


In what way were they larger? For most jazz basses the neck pickup is slightly shorter (horizontally) than the bridge pickup. However, for MIM standard basses during most of the 2000's used the same size pickups for the neck and bridge pickup. You might have gotten a pickguard to fit a 2000's MIM.


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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:58 pm
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It sounds like you got a pickguard for a USA Jazz bass since you had to make the PU hole larger.
The MIM Jazz basses use the same size pickups ( 2 bridge pus) where the US and Japanese versions have the correct smaller size neck pu.

Most replacement parts are made for the USA made Fender basses and if you try to put a US pickguard on a MIM Jazz bass- youwill have to enlarge the hole.

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