Fender Blacktop Precision Bass ?

[SpitfireCWII]

I dont know if their is any recent threads about this but...

Fender® Products

There is a Black Top Jazz Bass too but inserting links is a challenge to me

[JavierFarias]

MY EYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

[cnltb]

Originally Posted by SpitfireCWII

I dont know if their is any recent threads about this but...

Fender® Products

There is a Black Top Jazz Bass too but inserting links is a challenge to me

That's not a P bass.

[Strat Hater]

Nice but how many more times is Fender going to reinvent the same thing with slightly different options.

At least most other companies have more tan two or three main body styles

[SMILEYSIXX]

Rout out the body for a P style, get a regular pickguard and you just gave yourself one of the older deluxe P's... I'm considering this.

[Yowa77]

Of course not... it's a Blacktop Precision Bass !!!!

[parsons]

that thing is pretty cool. if it came in a maple board, Id be ordering one right now

[progrmr]

Any bass with 2 split coil pickups should be banned from the earth.

[JavierFarias]

Originally Posted by progrmr

Any bass with 2 split coil pickups should be banned from the earth.

AMEN bro!

[Miskatonic]

They're cheaper than the MIM standards? That seems atypical of Fender, and of most other companies. "Ooh, look. Shiny. New. Different. Now please hand over an additional $100."

[WyrdoBass]

The Blacktop Jazz is kinda meh IMO... why would they give the Jazz version two P pups?

Am I the only one who thinks the Blacktop Precision looks pretty cool? I agree that it doesn't really make sense calling it a Precision, but I'd like to give one a whirl- it seems interesting and I like the idea of two humbuckers with passive wiring.

This makes it suck even more being a broke teenager!

[okcrum]

Originally Posted by Strat Hater

Nice but how many more times is Fender going to reinvent the same thing with slightly different options.

At least most other companies have more tan two or three main body styles

Probably for as long as they sell a bajillion each year, and for as long as each new design they bring out doesn't sell. See Aerodyne, Coronado, Prodigy, Bass V, Bass VI, Performer, Jaguar, and others.

[Strat Hater]

Originally Posted by okcrum

Probably for as long as they sell a bajillion each year, and for as long as each new design they bring out doesn't sell. See Aerodyne, Coronado, Prodigy, Bass V, Bass VI, Performer, Jaguar, and others.

good point

[rapturebass]

I'm disappointed that there aren't any better color options (who wants a grey guitar?) or a maple fretboard option. I was hoping for a Blacktop Jazz with humbuckers, but the decision to use split coil pickups not only voids my interest in the instrument but also is rather unappealing to the eye, IMO. I would've killed for a red "Jazz" with humbuckers and a maple fretboard.

[AHDBassist]

I will be ordering the double p jazz bass.

[VWbug08']

I am looking forward to checking one out too.
I would guess that because they are two split coils there would not be the normal Jazz Bass hum when turning one up or down?

[IndieBass182]

But I love those wonderful single coils.....or just one split coil....Fender...why?...Why??? WHYYYYYYYYY?????????????

[Tmw2011]

Originally Posted by IndieBass182

But I love those wonderful single coils.....or just one split coil....Fender...why?...Why??? WHYYYYYYYYY?????????????

Because people have been asking for them since they released the Blacktop series guitars, perhaps?

[FBS1996]

If the P was coil tapped (coil split, whatever you want to call it) that would be great. Sadly I just really don't like the look of the P. The J, on the other hand, I think that it is just sexy. And I've always wondered how a bridge P pickup sounds

[troy mcclure]

Maple fretboard is on my next bass list..so no for now