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Post subject: My Christmas Present-Some Assembly Required
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:51 am
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I posted that I recieved a Fender '62 Reissue Jazz Bass for my Birthda/Christmas present. I did not mention that it was in genuine Fender parts gathered over a six month period and needed to be assembled by me (with the help of my daughters - future Fender players no doubt :D )

So here is what we have:
-CIJ '62 Reissue neck
-CIJ '62 Reissue body in Fiesta Red
-MIA '62 Reissue Tortoise Pickguard
-Fender Vintage Brass Bridge
-Fender Vintage revers tuners with rivets
-Fender Stack Knob and Pots with detent on the tone control (love them)
-Fender ceramic disc capacitors in .05uf for the neck and .03 mf for the bridge (Fender specs)
-Cloth covered push back hokup wire
-Brass ground plates for the pickups and control cavity shield with external ground strap to the bidge
-Pickups are GFS Vintage matched Jazz bass set wound to 10k ohms. This is my first experience with them - so far so good.
-Bridge pickup cover - they look so classy :!:


Here are some pics of the assembly and the finished product.

This is an incredible looking and sounding bass. I would never part with it.

Note when the tuners are being installed the bar of soap for lubing the threads of the small screws. That's rock maple kids - no lube = stripped and broken screws :cry:

PS. I appologize in advance if there are too many pics posted. This is my first time posting pics and I am not sure of the forum etiquitte.

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:07 am
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Open an account at photobucket, upload your pix there. It's easy to do JBH, looking forward to seeing them.


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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:07 am
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Jazz...to post a picture open a free account with Photobucket.com, you can upload your pictures from there using the img setting and copy and paste..Hope this helps.

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:52 am
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Nice bass very Pino Palladino'ish

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:17 pm
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Nice job on the bass, thanks for the pix.


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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:18 pm
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Thanks to everyone that helped me in posting the pics for my first time. I screwed up a carriage return while using the img tag. Got it now.


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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:08 pm
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Nice Bass - A picture is worth a thousand words.

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:22 pm
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That's way cool.

You know, I kinda want to pick up the bass a bit. Be pretty sweet if I won that Pete Wentz bass.


Anyway, have fun, that thing is a peice of art.

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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:27 pm
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That is one nice project Bass. I hope it sounds as good as it looks. Congrats.

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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:37 pm
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rkreisher,

This bass sounds fantastic. I let the bass set a few days and then did a full set up. It it the best playing bass I own and is going to become my main axe.

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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:17 pm
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Very nice....

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Very nice. One day I may work up the courage to tackle a project like that.

Sweet bass!


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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:03 am
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Looks like family fun, did you let the girls solder? LOL

Very nice!

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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:10 am
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bananfingers,

In fact, I did let them solder, install screws and taught them what each part on the guitar does. All the while, praising Leo Fender and telling them how they could be the next inventor. My kids really love designing and building stuff. They are going to kick my _ss in life :lol:


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