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Alanko:
I've found somebody selling some circa 2008 Gibson Thunderbird pickups. I'm not entirely happy with the plugged-in tone of my MIM Jazz bass. I like the girth and grind of a Thunderbird, and I love the feel and unplugged tone of my MIM Jazz bass.

A simple question really, is it worth getting my Jazz routed for T-bird pickups? I'm not after that chromed out look or anything retro like that, simply a bit more meat and muscle to my Jazz bass, while retaining the feel of it.

Highlander:
Three letters and one luthier will give you the answer...

JAE; Peter Cook.

QED ;)

Aussie Mark:
Mike Lull doesn't think it's a silly idea at all



http://www.mikelull.com/site/instruments/basses/bass-JT4_JT5.html

slinkp:
Go for it.  You'd be in good company.

That's more or less the idea behind Carlo's Cataldo RR bass...


And he's done some mods like this one in the archives of the outpost ...


... where you can also find any number of fenderish basses by Brad Lowe equipped with T-bird pickups. Lots of P's, not sure if Brad's done any J's; here's the first I came across...


And Mike Watt still has this on his page of basses:

lowend1:
I'm happy with my effort.

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