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Post subject: Fender Jazz plus V
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:10 pm
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I need to replace the neck on my Fender Jazz Plus bass. It is the 5 string model. I no longer have the neck and need to find the size to determine if I can replace it with a standard 5 string neck. Can anybody tell me if I will need a custom neck to replace the original?


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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:26 pm
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The Jazz Plus neck has 22 frets. You cannot install a standard 20-fret Jazz Bass neck on a Plus body because it's downsized.

You can order a Deluxe 22-fret 5-string replacement neck from Warmoth:

http://www.warmoth.com/Bass/Necks/Deluxe5Necks.aspx


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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:44 am
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Thanks for the info ....I actually built a bass out of warmouth parts and are familiar with their necks. Only problem I have with their necks is the double truss rod causes the neck to be so stiff that it looses the resonance.


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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:53 am
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Ken will make a 5-string Deluxe neck within your own specifications.

He's also able to build a 4-string Deluxe neck as well.

Ask him first, you'll not be disappointed!


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Post subject: resonance question
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:14 am
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I have a question about the Warmoth necks stifling resonance. I think that the majority of your sound, especially unamplified, comes from the body. The more rigid the transferring mechanism, in this case the bridge and neck, the more string vibration that should be transferred, or at least retained, to be amplified by the body and the electronics. This is the reason after all that you want a solid bridge like the ones that are on the American Standards. I think that when you move away from more dense materials like brass, what you'll actually find is that the sound is less bright, but not necessarily less in volume.

Think about it this way. A really loose string will not produce as much volume as one that is tight (to a certain extent) because the string tension causes everything it's in contact with to become more rigid as a unit. Another example of this principle can be seen on a string bass. If you want more volume, you can put on a taller bridge, as this increases string tension which raises the overall tension in the instrument. The downside is that the higher action makes the instrument harder to play.

I'm not an acoustic scientist, but I really would question whether the Warmoth's double truss rod is what's killing the sound. It could be a number of factors, including just bad neck design.


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