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UPSHOT: The little woman bought me a pair of NJ4SEs for christmas. They're definately worth the (double) money. Great honk, very little harshness. Great Jaco, great Chris Squire, lotsa great rock tones. So far I've tried Fender, DiMarzio, Duncan, Carvin, Bartolini. Nordstrands sound the best...

Thank you Mr. Funk.

anything else I can comment on for you?............. Pehaps. Which Nordy in your experience gives the best Jaco honk?

If anyone here has used them, I'd like to know what your results were. The application I might use them for is my warmoth jazz bass, rosewood/alder, currently with DiMarzio ultra jazz pups. Very good, but...

Here's a cut and paste from my "homemeade powerbucker" thread: Warmoth offers routing for Rio Grande Power Buckers in their bass bodies...cool, except I've read alot of negative reviews about those pickups. So, I made my own. I took two Basslines Hot For Jazz j-bass pickups, Cut the bridge-side...

A true spring story: I had a G&L JB-2 that used little coil springs under the four screw ears on it's j-bass style pickups. If you would bonk the bass against something, or rap the bass with your knuckles, it would ring the springs like they were little bells....and being within the magnetic...

I've used the split-p and model p. Neither deliver the clarity of the ferrous pole peice and single large coil (conventional Fender type) pickups. But they are both fun in their own right. The split-p especially is too full sounding for "vintage". Best vintage P sound I've heard? #1 was a plain...

Hmmm...pics. Maybe I can take a pic, upload to myspace, then C&P the URL. Is that how it's done, or is there an easier way?

Hey, what are Forstner bits? Like an end mill? Good for routing?

Yep, long bushing minitoggles of decent quality are hard to come by...C&K and NKK make them, but Allied Elctronics doesn't stock them. I, too will be reducng the thickness to in localized areas.

Warmoth offers routing for Rio Grande Power Buckers in their bass bodies...cool, except I've read alot of negative reviews about those pickups. So, I made my own. I took two Basslines Hot For Jazz j-bass pickups, Cut the bridge-side ears off the neck pickup and cut the neck-side ears off the...

During may last phone order with Warmoth, I asked how thick the component mounting wall of the rear routed controll cavity is so i could plan, source, and buy a jack, pots, and switches with the appropriate bushing length. The saleman didn't know, so he put me on hold to ask the shop...