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Excellent! I'm really impressed with the quality of the Affinity basses of the last few years. Enjoy that!

The '73 Jazz I'm restoring isn't quite finished yet. The broken bridge pickup is back, rewound and fully functioning. Both pickups measure at around 7.1KΩ so they should be fine. I am 100% sure I soldered it correctly. However, the neck pickup is significantly softer than the neck, and when both volumes are full you barely hear the neck pickup at all. It sounds a bit out of phase or something? Really strange. Any ideas?

How did I miss this topic? I absolutely adore my Lakland. It's a USA Joe Osborn from 2004. Bought it because a befriended bassist has one and I loved it so much I wanted one myself. Got this one from Andy Baxter's. It might be the best Jazz I've ever played, and I've played a LOT of fantastic Jazzes.

I don't pick up this bass as much as I'd like to, because it has 70's pickup spacing. But boy, is it a pretty bass.

I was thinking this too. The deal didn't go through unfortunately, but I was considering meeting halfway, which was cheaper than using a courier.

I'm currently talking to a chap to trade basses. However: he lives abroad. In the EU, but still, abroad. I have bought basses from abroad of course, that's easy: bass is shipped when money has arrived. But how to do that when trading basses? It feels a bit like a game of chicken... Anyone with experiences here?

That is in no way a Yamaha, except for the neck. New body, those black stripes on the fingerboard were added later... A cheap (but good) RBX neck from the 80s and a homemade body. Looks very cool, though. EDIT: On second thought, the pickups are most definitely Yamahas too.

My advice would be try to find a second hand Lakland. Any type will do. Excellent built basses, necks to die for.

Somehow I still see the first Fullerton basses from the early 80s also as vintage, but nothing after 1985.

In that condition, with a pickguard that doesn't have the original colour (it's supposed to be white), with the stickers on it? £300 tops.

The 1973 Jazz I'm restoring had a horribly fitted Schaller bridge on it. The original bridge was present, but it was missing mounting screws and two intonation screws. So I bought new screws and springs and re-fitted the bridge. You can see two sets of three screw holes: my guess is the Schaller was fitted once, they found out it couldn't be properly intonated and then re-fitted it. I really like the discolouring undereatb.

Got this nice array of Jazzes at home currently. From left to right: 64 (reissue), 1966, 1970, 1973. The '73 isn't mine. Yet. Maybe.

Ah yes, the 90's basses from Mexico. Love 'em or hate 'em. Personally not a fan, I always get the feeling Fender tried to save as much money as possible in materials in those days, so they switched to plastic control plates (just like the early USA Fullerton basses), cheap looking logos and not the best woods. However: some people really like them.

Just ordered new intonation and bridge mounting screws for this beaut. I saw the bridge isn't on straight. Can't wait to put the original back on.

I have this 1973 Jazz Bass currently in to clean and setup. The bridge pickup is veeeeery very soft. The neck pickup is functioning fine. Is it just a matter of having the pickup rewound? The pots and all other solder looks fine and is original. The bridge is a Schaller, but I have the original bridge with it. It does lack two intonation screws and springs.

Limited editions for 2024. They're so hideous I want a VI.

Well yeah but it is, but cheaper. My 3 (body) refinished Fenders don't sound or play different from an original. I want the sound and feel of an old Fender, not the exact original finish. If the wood, hardware and electronics are original: sign me up. Oh and the refin has to be pretty. I mean: nothing wrong with a good refin.

I can confirm that adding lollipops will look absolutely stunning.

Oh wow, that looks stunning! Hope it sounds as good as it looks. But well, being a Squier CV, I guess it'll be fine.

Oh yeah definitely. However: most basses from that era are not really...ehm...my thing.

I see it now and then: people that own a birth year bass. It makes me a bit envious: being born in 1990 my options are not great, except for perhaps the Kubicki Jazz or a Ken Smith or something. Who owns a cool birth year bass and if you do, did you buy it because of the bass or because of the year?

Oh my, that looks perfect. I know the feeling: both my 66 and 70 Jazzes have had refrets that have made them absolutely immaculate.

I love the fact they have a page "Stuff that no one buys" on their website and that that page is empty.

But that's not a matching headstock.