ClassicVibes

Hmm... overpriced IMO. The Kickass wouldn't be any improvement over the Sandberg bridge. £700 is more like it.

Does it have to be a Fender?

Not much... Waiting for my new tuners to arrive and then I will install the new neck but that may be a week off still. Swapped the strap pins for some oversized Gotoh versions. 👍🏻

I had a Status Energy back in the day... well around ten years ago. I sold it because I couldn't get on with the graphite neck. Someone offered me £375 - not for the neck but the whole bass! Keep on walking, son!

The neck pocket looks like it says JAN 06 1999 to me. This would check out with the serial number on the headstock.

Tribute JB-2 owners: Are the pickups standard Fender Jazz size? @la bam, @dub_junkie?

Busy morning! The neck is off: How about a new bridge? Simple enough job! Just like that, a Gotoh 201 bridge is installed! In my haste to test the pickups with the new loom, I forgot to cable tie the wires before closing the bell plate. Another job for later...

I stripped around 5mm off the end of the wire. Although some is sticking out of the terminal, there is very little chance of it touching the wire next to it since the wire is so taut.

I just twisted the ground wire and pickup wire together. Seemed to work a treat!

Easy - better quality parts means a better output and more definition in your tone. Imagine the engine in your car and rebuilding it with better parts.

Installed and ready to try out! Just ran it through my Peavey Micro Bass and thought I had wired something incorrectly... it was actually the pickups. They are so powerful that the little Peavey speaker can't handle it so it started to distort! All controls working with no scratchy pots. Now, on to the next mod...

Ready for wiring! Fun fact - the Revelation bell plate was not big enough for the CTS pots... good job I had a spare on hand!

G&L Tribute?

To be installed this evening...

If you would like to follow my mod/build diary, please click on the following link https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/435381-super-jazz/ I have many plans for this Revelation...

The next stage - pop the hood and see what's underneath. A mysterious hole north east of the neck pickup. Large route for the neck pickup (but a tidy job nonetheless). Soldering was of a decent standard in the control cavity. The body and pickups will definitely be staying but everything else is up for grabs. The first stop on my modding journey will be to install a Ki0gon solderless wiring loom... which coincidentally, has just arrived in the post!

Following on from this Revelation thread: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/435124-revelation-rbj-67/ I decided to purchase one due to the rave reviews they had been getting on Basschat. The bass arrived yesterday and I was pretty impressed for a bass that costs so little. The bass felt really solid and played quite well straight out of the box. The Entwistle JBXN pickups are powerful enough to break walls - these things have a huge output! I needed a little project in lockdown to keep me going and have plenty of parts waiting to be installed... so decided to make the Revelation into a super Jazz. This is what the bass looked like when I received it (I forgot to take pictures):

Here we go then... start the fettling!

The thing about Newtone is the postage cost. For £6 I could ship something from America... and you have to wait two weeks for them to make the strings.

It depends what you want from the roundwound.

I think I would rather grab a Japanese Metro Express whilst they're still available.

Scream for me Donnington!

But have you tried turning it off and on again?

I don't think it's the amp, I think it's because the drives aren't very good.