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Post subject: Fender vintage jazz bass pickup?
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:02 am
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Hi,

I bought a cheap used Squier jazz bass, and this is my summer project to keep the body and neck parts. I will re-paint and change the electronic parts. I need your advice.

I bought a pair of New Fender 60 vintage noiseless jazz bass pickup, it comes with a wiring instruction sheet, it says the one with BLUE DOT is Rhythm pickup and the one with RED DOT is LEAD pickup. I am lost here, there is no blue or red dots and I am only familiar with neck and bridge terms.

The pickup with yellow and black wires is 1/8" shorter than the other one with white and black wire. Which one is for the NECK or BRIDGE? Thanks.

BTW, on the Squier pickups they are yellow and red wires pickup, white and red wire pickup. Thanks. :x


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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:46 am
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Zorro21c wrote:
Hi,

I bought a cheap used Squier jazz bass, and this is my summer project to keep the body and neck parts. I will re-paint and change the electronic parts. I need your advice.

I bought a pair of New Fender 60 vintage noiseless jazz bass pickup, it comes with a wiring instruction sheet, it says the one with BLUE DOT is Rhythm pickup and the one with RED DOT is LEAD pickup. I am lost here, there is no blue or red dots and I am only familiar with neck and bridge terms.

The pickup with yellow and black wires is 1/8" shorter than the other one with white and black wire. Which one is for the NECK or BRIDGE? Thanks.

BTW, on the Squier pickups they are yellow and red wires pickup, white and red wire pickup. Thanks. :x


The wider of the two pickups is the bridge pickup.

The black wires on the 60s vintage pickups are your ground wires.

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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:23 am
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The wider of the two pickups is the bridge pickup


Just about to put the pickups in and found out that the Squire pickup cavities are in reversed order, the Bridge cavity is shorter than the Neck one. I don't know if Fender had decided to reverse the order, I just hope that my new shorter fender vintage pickup is actually the Bridge because it fits in perfectly and the longer one fits in the neck. Sometimes engineers run out of idea and they do this to show that they don't sit around and drink coffees. [/quote]


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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 8:07 am
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I'm not positive here so take this with a grain of salt, but I was under the impression the only difference between the two pups on a Jazz was the size, in order to compensate for string spacing, and that they are not different electronically speaking. If that's true, then it shouldn't matter what size pup goes where. IF that's true.

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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:45 am
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[quoteI was under the impression the only difference between the two pups on a Jazz was the size, in order to compensate for string spacing[/quote]

I are very right, the bridge is longer because the strings spacing is wider there. So either Fender people or slaved workers in the far East messed it up. I have no choice but to put the longer pickup to the neck cavity and vice versa for the other.[/quote]


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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:19 am
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well if the cavities are smaller then you'd just have to make it bigger

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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:06 am
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I was afraid to chisel and ruin the freshly painted surface, but I was able to file it with metal filler and it's now wider. Thanks.


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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:00 pm
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you don't have to chisel it anyways.. the body wood is soft

Cheers.. :lol:

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