All that Jazz...

Craig came round a few days ago. He tried "the bass" at the weekend and wanted me to do a setup on his bass! I guess he thinks I know what I'm doing (he hasn't read the blog obviously). It all went really well, and he went away happy with his bass a lot nicer than it arrive (I hope).

While he was here he noticed the spare body I bought and never used. His regular bass is a Fender Precision Special/Deluxe or something - basically a P body with a Jazz neck, and an extra Jazz pickup. All pretty standard parts, but not common when put together in that layout. He sugguested that if I put a Jazz neck on my spare P body he'd be interested in buying it. Well that sounds like fun!

Turns out Jazz necks are hard to find. Eveyone sells replacement P necks, but Jazz necks just don't exist. Fortunarly I found a cheap Westfield Jazz neck on ebay, and grabbed it. It arrived today, and looks great on the P body. I'm still waiting for a neck plate to fix it all together, but I can't wait to try it.

I also want to upgrade the pickup before passing it on. Last year I picked up an SD quarter pounder P pickup cheap from the US, but over the last few weeks the exchange rate has taken a dive, and the nice cheap american pickup is now 50% more than it cost me last year, so I think I'll look elsewhere. Top of the list is a "Tonerider". They'd nice and cheap, but reports are good. I guess I need to ask Craig if he wants to pay the extra for the pickup, or if he just wants to take it with the stock PU. It can wait until it's all put together anyway, so there's no rush to make that decision.

OK - that had NOTHING to do with the Sheehan bass, but it's pretty cool that someone played the "BS1", and was impressed enough to order a custom build from me!!!