I love my Junior Jet - it’s the bass I reach for when I just feel like playing for fun.
I did a mod to it that you may find interesting:
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2000 StingRay 5 and in discontinued metallic black. A workhorse of a bass!!
Alvarez Yairi: friend of mine (praise leader for Grace On Fire whom I was the bassist for 15 years) gave to my granddaughter before he passed from battling brain cancer.
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I am giddy!
My Aerodyne’s new sister arrived today.
Holy cow it looks brand new, mint from top to bottom, looks like it was never played.
Even came with the original owner’s manual (in Japanese).
I think the only thing needed here is a white pearl pickguard to match the P.
Pretty cool to have the same bass in both P and J necks, etc.
Setup, fretboard oil and flats are all this girls needs.
I am super excited for this one.
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Congratulations John!
Many hours of enjoyment.
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Pair of beauties
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Wow, @John_E ! I’m blown away, they are so beautiful.
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Yeah. That’s a beautiful set.
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I’ve got the new one all set up.
This is the first Fender anything I have seen with a matte finish neck, really like it.
I do not like the ‘special edition’ Dimarzio pickups much though.
I was thinking it would be cool to swap out the EMG pickups in the PJ with matching Dimarzios with black pole pieces but from what I am hearing…nope nope nope.
I’ve got a Fralin P coming for the HMT hollow body to replace the ‘special edition’ Lace/Fender pickups (hmmm, theme here??). If I like it I might try out the Fralin J set in this bass.
Like the P, this J has sustain for days.
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I had yo pull the trigger sooner or later :
the strings (Ibanez carbon coated) are horrible but otherwise it’s a nice little instrument. the neck is comfortable and the bass sounds really better than I expected, plugged and unplugged. Also I like the minimal rustic finish even if it’s hard to render in picture.
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Nice! Is it a full 34" scale?
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it’s a 32" which is fine for me for this kind of instrument.
also it lacks a thumb rest, I will have to fix that.
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I was thinking for an acoustic I would probably prefer a 32" or 30", otherwise the body would be very big.
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yeah that was my though. also Ibanez makes a very cute Parlor bass but at less than 25" it’s ridiculously short, so I prefered the 32" one.
also I might tune it in D#-std to match my acoustic guitars, and so it makes a 30" in E-std with a capo on the first fret. not sure at this point if I will really do it, but it’s a viable option.
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Very nice @terb Laurent. Looking forward to your first cover with it.
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If Egg Sound is the name of the music shop and their strap line isn’t “Our prices are hard to beat” then I’ll be disappointed.
That’s a beautiful looking bass.
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Sold the Road Worn so here’s the new line-up:
This is it for me for a long while. Going to concentrate more on playing than looking at gear moving forward.
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And the collection grows…
I need to do a setup on it since the B string is a little buzzy but I’m not sure what the specs are for string height, etc. for 5s.
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I set E theough G the same and B a whisker higher. For me that would be just a hair over 3mm. Then back down until buzzy, then back up a hair.
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Just go by feel, specs are a starting point at best. You don’t need them 
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I know they use these type of strings on Taylor acoustic basses:
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