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Post subject: Please help: What model bass is this?
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 11:07 am
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Hi everyone! Hey, I bought this bass from a friend who bought if off Craigslist a few years ago. I've never seen a Fender with two J's and a P. Looks like an '06 American, relic. The badass bridge is even rusted out a little - nice touch. It sounds great and it's nice to have two basses in one.

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Does anyone have this same model? Any idea what it is and how much it's worth? Thanks!


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Post subject: Re: Please help: What model bass is this?
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 12:06 pm
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Hello Sam, welcome to the Forum. Interesting photos. Do not recognize the bass guitar and so do not have "Any idea what it is or how much it's worth". There is a wealth of information here especially for Fender gear. Let us know what you discover about your bass guitar.

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Post subject: Re: Please help: What model bass is this?
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 1:09 pm
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This is likely a parts bass.

From the photos the neck appears genuine USA Fender from 2006.

The body is clearly stamped with a 2008 date and another date that is redacted. The body appears to be Fender also based on the 72977 stamp which appears on many USA Jazz bodies.

I do not think the neck and body shipped together.

I also think it has been refinished because the paint appears to be sprayed over the stamping and there is far too much paint in the neck pocket. The P-Bass pickup was added and if you remove the pickguard you'll probably see a rough cut pickup cavity and not a factory cavity. The P-Bass cavity may or may not be painted. I'm not seeing enough controls for 3 pickups.

This is a modified parts bass made up of Fender parts in my opinion. I don't recall a production model with this pickup arrangement, but there could have been one. In what manner do the controls operate?

It is worth the sum of the parts. About $500 to $600 maybe.


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Post subject: Re: Please help: What model bass is this?
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 1:52 pm
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I'm almost 30% certain I've seen a stock Jazz Bass like that before. Maybe 25% certain. Could have been a very short run. Or I could be just imagining it all.

Have you taken the pickguard off and checked if the P-Bass pickup is original?

Out of interest - how do all the controls work? I mean, I count three pickups and two volume controls.

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Post subject: Re: Please help: What model bass is this?
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 6:22 am
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Thanks Dave! You are totally right. Here's the P pickup cavity and it's clearly a home job.

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For the controls, a volume knob sits where the output jack used to be (missing a knob in my previous pictures) and the jack was moved to the bottom edge of the bass like a Precision.

Of course, it doesn't sound great with all pickups open at once. The phase cancelation sucks the punch out of the tone. And I'm sure the P pickup is not in the optimal position. It's a little close to the neck but with the tone wide open and some crunchy tube overdrive, it sounds killer with a pick.

The J pickups have a very open, 60s tone which I prefer, especially as a sound engineer. The high-mid chatter is what gives a bass its own personality in the mix and you can always pull plenty of thump out of them with a 40Hz boost.

Definitely keeping this one.

Thanks again!


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Post subject: Re: Please help: What model bass is this?
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:23 pm
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Cool Jazzercision! That looks like a really old P-Bass pickup maybe.


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Post subject: Re: Please help: What model bass is this?
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 4:29 am
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brotherdave nails it.

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Post subject: Re: Please help: What model bass is this?
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 4:48 am
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Looks like a heavily modified Highway One.


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