Steve Browning

I actually do like that but can't see how to select it. Can you let me know how please?

This, to me, is what being in a band is all about.

Ah but you have retained a signature that is more than the 3 lines the rest of us are permitted.

A Retrovibe Stinger pre-amp. Decided to keep the stock pickup as a result.

I recently bought a red one and am also mighty impressed with it (having also owned an old Stingray). One modification and it sounds just as I remember my old 'ray.

You may want to edit your topic as Overwater are a long established brand and you refer to Overload, I believe.

I don't really think that I could have given a young me any advice. Mainly because, at the time, student gear wasn't that great. Had there been a Squier I'd have bought that. Apart from a Fender from the outset (5 times the cost of my s/h Columbus) I didn't have any other option. Knowing now, I would have jotted down Merry Christmas and Bohemian Rhapsody before Nod and Freddy!!

Maybe one more thing. You are replacing a Jazz. Have a look at a Fender Japan PB75-US. They are the same build quality etc but have the B profile neck which is between a Jazz and a '62 Precision.

Fender Japan every time. Build quality is top notch. Personally I would change the pot etc for CTS and change the pickup but the instrument is a brilliant platform for such changes. Your cheapest option and the best value by far.

A 1959 Les Paul Standard. Maybe 2.

I get the impression that you will be massively disappointed if you do read the thread. We tried 4 different cables and @rumblefish subsequently bought the same cable as I had, based on his experience that evening.

No such data available. The test equipment was 4 ears. I described the results as we perceived them. The difference was clear to our collective lug'oles. No science was involved.

Another Columbus Jazz starter here. Bizarrely, I have no memory of what became of it. I played it for about two years until I bought my first Precision. I can see from that invoice that I p/ex'd a Hondo bass (which was a Ric) but just no idea where that first bass went. Maybe my late Mum hid it in retaliation for the basses I used to try and hide from her (which never worked).

$ods Law dictates that whichever decision you make will be wrong, so do as your gut tells you and just wait for the realisation that you were, indeed, wrong.