Is this made in the USA?

Mexico

I've heard good and bad things about the Mexican Fenders. How do they compare to the American and Japanese? I'm sure there must be another thread but would anyone care to discuss that here?

Standard is Mexico.

American Standard is self explanatory.

My MIM Fender Jazz IS my go to bass, I put Basslines and a Bad@$$ II bridge and it is a great bass.

Standard is Mexico.

American Standard is self explanatory.

My MIM Fender Jazz IS my go to bass, I put Basslines and a Bad@$$ II bridge and it is a great bass.


Yup, I dropped some DM Ultra Jazz pups in mine, had a bone nut put in and a setup and it is my first call bass.

I gotta say, I have 23 Fenders four of which are MIM, 9 are MIA and 10 are CIJ (and MIJ). Of them all, my favorite player is a 2001 MIM P spl. Call me crazy.

I have a MIM Jazz fretless, and I would have to agree, it is my go to bass. I dropped in DiMarzio Ultras and a Badass II bridge, it sings.
Ken

My Fender J is also a Mexi. I've got to agree that they are great as well stock. But being an only child (we're a selfish lot) I wanted mine to look and sound dissimilar to anyone else's stock MIM J (don't get me wrong, they sound great stock!). I dropped in some Stan Hinsley high-output humbucking single-coils, a badass II bridge, replaced the plastic nut with a graphtech, grounded the cavities with copper foil, stuck a custom one-piece aluminum pickguard with attached control plate attached on, and changed the wiring from vol/vol/tone (treble roll off) to master vol/pickup blend/push-pull tone (treble/mids roll off). Did I really need to do all of these things? No, not really. But with some DR Hi-Beam flats stuck on it, it can sing sweetly, or I can coax it to growl when I dig in a little more. :bassist: Definitely still my go-to bass, and my first "real" bass. (not a bargain bin find at the local pawn shop :rollno:)