Thegrandwazoo
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Hi all! I've never posted here before, but have at various times owned various Warmoth bodies/necks and one complete Tele that I should never have sold. Anyway, I have a question regarding, as the title suggests, the default placement of a MusicMan bass pickup on a Warmoth Jazz body. Background info: for helping a friend pack up his house and gourmet mushroom cultivation business and driving the UHaul towing a car to Colorado, I was given a 1988 Fender Japanese 'Jazz Bass Special' (a P body with a J neck, P/J pickups, 3-way selector switch, and TBX tone pot), which I defretted as I had no need for another fretted electric bass. That neck is AWESOME, but the pickups are pretty noisy (though with a good Geezer Butler roar about them) and it's headstock-heavy, not to mention P-basses just aren't my thing because 'my' sound is that of the Ernie Ball MusicMan Sterling.
I've decided to re-body the bass, maybe sell the Fender loaded body or put a neck on it to sell as a whole instrument. I'm a sucker for a Jazz, so I've decided on a Jazz bass body, flame maple over alder with a MusicMan pickup and some kind of a preamp, I'm thinking maybe get the electronics from a Sterling By MusicMan sb14, maybe. Finished in black dye and tung oil, I think it'll look pretty damn good with the factory Fender black headstock and the clean-looking maple fretlines I inlaid.
When I set it up in the body builder on the website, there's a no neck pickup option, and I can choose a MM-style bridge humbucker, but does that mean normal Fender Jazz bridge position, or will they know to put the pickup rout in the MusicMan 'sweet spot'? I bet someone here has had a single-mm pickup bass body made, I'd appreciate feedback. I suppose it wouldn't be totally out of the question to get a router and make my own pickup cavity since I'll be doing the finish, but it'd be cool not to have to.
I've decided to re-body the bass, maybe sell the Fender loaded body or put a neck on it to sell as a whole instrument. I'm a sucker for a Jazz, so I've decided on a Jazz bass body, flame maple over alder with a MusicMan pickup and some kind of a preamp, I'm thinking maybe get the electronics from a Sterling By MusicMan sb14, maybe. Finished in black dye and tung oil, I think it'll look pretty damn good with the factory Fender black headstock and the clean-looking maple fretlines I inlaid.
When I set it up in the body builder on the website, there's a no neck pickup option, and I can choose a MM-style bridge humbucker, but does that mean normal Fender Jazz bridge position, or will they know to put the pickup rout in the MusicMan 'sweet spot'? I bet someone here has had a single-mm pickup bass body made, I'd appreciate feedback. I suppose it wouldn't be totally out of the question to get a router and make my own pickup cavity since I'll be doing the finish, but it'd be cool not to have to.