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12-26-2012, 12:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Willow Street, PA | | | Wine cork. Hmm... |
12-26-2012, 05:46 PM
| | | | I wonder why they wouldn't just adjust their router so the hole isn't being put on the body... laziness? |
12-26-2012, 05:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Careful...I heard they are smuggling drugs with those!!!!
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12-26-2012, 06:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Detroit | | | That's a real shame! I know it's stupid, but that makes me think twice about my potential purchase of an American Standard P bass coming up.
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12-26-2012, 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by hdracer  Naw,
You can not fit enough in it to make it worth taking out all the screws and then trying to put them back in after you did your stash. |
If I really needed that inconspicuous of a spot to hide my stash, I'd probably just take the control plate off and stash it in there. Lots of room! |
12-26-2012, 07:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Willow Street, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by paradog Careful...I heard they are smuggling drugs with those!!!! | That explains the white powder in the hole!!
It's actually polishing compound. |
12-26-2012, 07:39 PM
|  | Functionless Art is Merely Tolerated Vandalism | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | | Quote:
Originally Posted by pocketgroove That's a real shame! I know it's stupid, but that makes me think twice about my potential purchase of an American Standard P bass coming up. | Were you planning on removing the pickguard on your P bass? Personally I like my P's with a guard so it wouldn't affect anything for me
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12-26-2012, 07:39 PM
| | Functionless Art is Merely Tolerated Vandalism | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Rip Topaz That explains the white powder in the hole!!
It's actually polishing compound. | Haha I have opened enough Mexican Fenders and have always wondered what the hell that stuff is
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12-26-2012, 07:41 PM
| | | | It's just to prevent bass of doom copies xD
Nah, probably CNC guidance. It's on my MIM strat too.
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12-26-2012, 07:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Willow Street, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DiabolusInMusic Haha I have opened enough Mexican Fenders and have always wondered what the hell that stuff is | Yup. Polishing compound gets in the and since a pickguard covers it, they don't bother cleaning it out.
I'm really considering the cork idea. My bass has some great grain, and I'd love to go nekkid.
The hole is for CNC purposes. There are a couple models without it, but I forget which ones. |
12-26-2012, 08:15 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Hudson Valley, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Rip Topaz I'm a step away from living with it and taking the guard off my MIA P. I love the look without the guard, except for that dang hole!!  | Good, one more thing to keep me from buying the Anniversary model besides that darn black pickguard.  Such a shame that hole is there. No excuse for it on US models.
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12-26-2012, 08:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Hudson Valley, NY | | | *and I'm sure todays drug cartels would have no problem packing 3-4oz of coke in one of those holes. Think if they did that in one of every 10 MIM's that came over the border...
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12-26-2012, 10:27 PM
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12-26-2012, 10:59 PM
| | | | agreed! that is my one complaint about american standard jazz basses, the hole as well as the big ugly rout around the neck pickup, both of which rule out the cool pickguardless look.
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12-26-2012, 11:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Jamestown, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by petrus61 *and I'm sure todays drug cartels would have no problem packing 3-4oz of coke in one of those holes. Think if they did that in one of every 10 MIM's that came over the border... | I'd personally go with oxy- pills. Good business up in the great white north. Lots of oxy-heads.
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12-26-2012, 11:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Chester, Pa.,USA | | | Personally, I don't see what the big deal is, I prefer leaving the pickguard on anyway, that kinda thing doesn't bother me.
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12-27-2012, 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by C.Linton Personally, I don't see what the big deal is, I prefer leaving the pickguard on anyway, that kinda thing doesn't bother me. | I'm the same way, used to bother me when I wanted to go pickguard less but now I appreciate the design of the Fenders with their guards on. Life's too short to worry about that stuff |
12-27-2012, 09:12 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada | | | Maybe the holes are there to discourage people from trying to pass it off as a vintage instrument (the Road Worn series anyway) when selling it used to an unsuspecting buyer.
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12-27-2012, 09:25 AM
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12-27-2012, 01:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Willow Street, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Smallmouth_Bass Maybe the holes are there to discourage people from trying to pass it off as a vintage instrument (the Road Worn series anyway) when selling it used to an unsuspecting buyer. | If that's the case, they should've put the hole in the cheaper models. My 60th is a $1500 bass!! Put the hole in the Roadworn!! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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