mavuser
Enlightened Member
go ahead and call me crazier than a bag of nuts in a nut free facility... but those pickups sound like Bisonics/Dark Stars, like a Newark Street pickup at least, to my ears. The player is quite good.
Fender uses the term "vintage" to describe those narrow frets. I think they were used on the original Mustang Basses and for sure on some of the later re-issues thereof. That's where I picked it up.
My 1970 has "jumbo" frets and I really dig them (figuratively speaking). I honestly never took note of the fret size on it until I got the sunburst 1967 SFB-I last year and realized the thin "vintage" frets on it. May have been a matter of what-I'm-used-to but I realized I greatly prefer the jumbos.
Anybody know what would have been stock in 1970? Maybe mine was refretted along the way, but if so, I'm glad it was. Fret size, like fretboard radius, was just never something I paid mind to. I dont think any common radius or fretsize would make an instrument uncomfortable for me, but I've realized I do have slight preferences
Only thing I heard was skinnier frets give more accurate intonation. But I don’t think I ever noticed diffs in feel.
Only thing I heard was skinnier frets give more accurate intonation. But I don’t think I ever noticed diffs in feel.
What's with the slots in the pick-up covers? They don't allow adjustment so what is their purpose? They look like crap!
Many pickups are like that....since it has the big block cutout for the pole pieces instead of total coverage with just individual pole piece holes.