I have seen a few on the local Craig's, but they aren't string thru the body. All my Fender guitars are string thru. What am I missing here?
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Need a Jazz Bass
I miss the 80's (girls) !!!
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Re: Need a Jazz Bass
You’re looking at basses, not guitars. Top-load is the norm. My Ibanez Mikro, Warwick Corvette, Squier P, and Yamaha P/J are all top-load.
One of the big advantages, especially if it has a tailpiece/bridge like a Warwick, is you can take strings on and off without screwing up the wraps and breaking them. It’s pretty common for bass players to swap strings around. Over on TalkBass, tons of people buy and sell gently used strings.“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt
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String-through Jazz basses are usually found in the modern style (non-reissue) American made lines. I think this has been used on Fender Js for at least 20 years now. But lower end Js, and reissues, are usually traditional top loaders.
It doesn't matter in the slightest, other than that you sometimes run into unwound string length problems with certain string sets.Originally posted by LesStratYogi Berra was correct.Originally posted by JOLLYI do a few chord things, some crappy lead stuff, and then some rhythm stuff.
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I currently have two top-loading Jazz basses and have never run into problems. Still love my P, but end up grabbing one of the Js more often.'69 Fender Mustang bass
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Nothing wrong with top loading bridges. They still sound like a great Jazz bass.Administrator of the SDUGF
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Originally posted by ArtieToo View PostThat's good to know. I'd like to try some variations, but the dang things are expensive.“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt
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