Which Jazz bass?

[dub_junkie]

Best playing passive jazz bass I've owned was a transluscent white 44-60 with plek'd neck. Such a superb feeling/playing bass. I also owned a 55-60 Custom which was a bit special also. 

fwiw I've never had a Lakland Skyline that was less than hugely impressive

 

[ead]

If it has to be a Fender then for me a Geddy Lee sig.  Japanese would be pre-loved, but you can get the US ones new I think.

[Delberthot]

I too had a Musicman Sterling HH as my main bass for a while then assembled my Warmoth/Status Jazz bass for a change.

 

It's a heavy maple body, EMG X series pickups, BQC system and a Status jazz neck with Hipshot Ultralites. It comes in at a hefty 14lbs (I can hear some of you groaning at the thought of that 😂 )

 

A couple of weeks ago I changed the batteries after sound check and it stopped working. Turned out that it was the connection between the batteries in the double battery box so I had to get the back up bass.

 

It's a 2010 Fender Japan '75 reissue with US pickups in old candy apple red with matching headstock.

 

It couldn't be any different to the Warmoth but I absolutely love it.

 

The short version is that both basses are more than capable of replacing my Sterling and it gives me an excuse to post pictures of both of them. 

 

 

[TrevorR]

12 hours ago, fretmeister said:

I'd buy a Sandberg TT4 above a Fender.

Me too! Any day of the week!

[jd56hawk]

8 hours ago, Twigman said:

Or this - the MIJ 'Noir' at 1/3 of the price

 

 

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Go for it.

It'd be nice with black hardware and some DR Red Dragon strings, but it's still nicer than a typical black Jazz bass 

Edited 15 minutes ago by jd56hawk