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Post subject: Vintage 1966 Jazz Bass pickups
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 12:58 pm
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Does anyone know the value of a set of 1966 Jazz Bass pickups with the pots? Thanks


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Post subject: Re: Vintage 1966 Jazz Bass pickups
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:27 pm
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Depends on things. Such as your location and the condition of the components. They are not cheap around here. I'd guess around here about $400 to $600 would be a price at which I'd consider buying if it included the control plate and if I actually needed it. The value there could be more or less. If you put it on eBay it might bring more than that. Also you could split the stuff up and sell it separately and possibly get more. Places like STRATOSPHERE make their money hacking up perfectly good instruments and selling them piece by piece like an automotive chop shop.


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Post subject: Re: Vintage 1966 Jazz Bass pickups
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:49 pm
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Thanks for the information.


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Post subject: Re: Vintage 1966 Jazz Bass pickups
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:53 pm
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brotherdave wrote:
Depends on things. Such as your location and the condition of the components. They are not cheap around here. I'd guess around here about $400 to $600 would be a price at which I'd consider buying if it included the control plate and if I actually needed it. The value there could be more or less. If you put it on eBay it might bring more than that. Also you could split the stuff up and sell it separately and possibly get more. Places like STRATOSPHERE make their money hacking up perfectly good instruments and selling them piece by piece like an automotive chop shop.



I don't really agree with the chop shop thing but I guess someone eventually would have done it anyway had they not. They prob make a lot off doing it that way-- but just think of the really killer sounding guitars they may be taking apart and selling !!! It's blasphemy I tell you!!!


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Post subject: Re: Vintage 1966 Jazz Bass pickups
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 11:02 am
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I have a set of '66 jazz pickups that I bought from the owner who replaced them with Dimarzio pickups back in the 70's.

I think I saved them from being lost in some anonymous drawer for all eternity. LOL


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Post subject: Re: Vintage 1966 Jazz Bass pickups
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:58 pm
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I don't really agree with the chop shop thing but I guess someone eventually would have done it anyway had they not. They prob make a lot off doing it that way-- but just think of the really killer sounding guitars they may be taking apart and selling !!! It's blasphemy I tell you!!!


Agreed that it is a pretty ugly business, but you can't stop them. They actually buy instruments just to chop them up. They buy USA Fenders and sell them out one piece at a time. They sell the case too and you can gauge the number of new USA Fenders they are chopping by the number of cases they have up for sale. I just checked and they have approximately 45 Fender hard cases that came with USA instruments for sale. That is TODAY. They probably double their money on every instrument they buy, BUT that doesn't make it right does it?


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Post subject: Re: Vintage 1966 Jazz Bass pickups
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:42 pm
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No - not right IMO. The overall syndrome of taking hundreds of Fenders and doing that---takes away from the musicality outlook and turns it into foaming at the mouth for money. There is only the want to make a buck and that is fine I guess but to me it's like taking an artwork and sell square-inch pieces of it. Oh here-- let's just take this Winslow Homer painting and sell it in square inch pieces. They can put it back together at home . No one will notice the hundreds of seams. Right?


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Post subject: Re: Vintage 1966 Jazz Bass pickups
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 3:12 pm
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And then the stuff that doesn't sell they toss into a goody bag and sell the bag....

Not a fan.

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Post subject: Re: Vintage 1966 Jazz Bass pickups
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 10:14 pm
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Yeah, many Steve Harris p's on eBay are on there as chopped up bits, in various combos, like necks with AND without hardware, bodies the same. It's disgusting.

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Post subject: Re: Vintage 1966 Jazz Bass pickups
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 12:49 pm
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It seems like we do not like the" chop up the bass people."


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Post subject: Re: Vintage 1966 Jazz Bass pickups
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 2:11 pm
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My biggest disgust is in the fact that they are chopping up these things to get more dollars out of the deal. I understand that ebay is full of suckers, but just wow, what a dick move.

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