Fender Custom Shop 1970's Jazz Bass

JacoLesFlea · #1 08-06-2010, 03:59 AM

Little much for my pocket book...

http://www.wwbw.com/Fender-Custom-Sh...-i1475428.wwbw

Also was never into the whole made to look old, I would rather have my bass age with me.

bubinga5 · #2 08-06-2010, 04:49 AM

your link goes to a website..cant find the bass?

DeliriumTremens · #3 08-06-2010, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by bubinga5

your link goes to a website..cant find the bass?

click 'view US site and prices' and then it goes through to it

amphlett7 · #4 08-06-2010, 05:12 AM

That truly is a beautiful bass

JacoLesFlea · #5 08-06-2010, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by bubinga5

your link goes to a website..cant find the bass?

Try this

http://www.wwbw.com/Fender-Custom-Sh...-i1475428.wwbw

StuartV · #6 08-06-2010, 06:06 AM

Beautiful? It looks like it has been trashed! It's like buying jeans that already have rips in them - only worse. Nobody is trying to buy street cred with "pre-distressed" jeans.

Battle scars should be earned, not purchased.

JacoLesFlea · #7 08-06-2010, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by StuartV

Beautiful? It looks like it has been trashed! It's like buying jeans that already have rips in them - only worse. Nobody is trying to buy street cred with "pre-distressed" jeans.

Battle scars should be earned, not purchased.

agreed.

fleabee · #8 08-06-2010, 06:47 AM

Love the bass, laugh at the price

Spinal Tapper · #9 08-06-2010, 08:27 AM

I like the double coats of paint. I dig it! Not for that price, but it'd be cool to have someone build that w/out the CS price

C.Linton · #10 08-06-2010, 08:31 AM

I think it looks like crap. And to pay that much money for a fake aged bass is ridiculous. Wouldn't want to pay that much for the real thing, for that matter.

StuartV · #11 08-06-2010, 08:32 AM

For that much money, you could buy an ACTUAL 70s Jazz. And then have it upgraded to the same electronics as in this one - if you wanted to. And then buy another one just the same, and still have change left over.

TheGrizz · #12 08-06-2010, 09:06 AM

Odds are it plays better than a 70s Jazz. All of the ones I've played were either planks or decent, at best.

C.Linton · #13 08-06-2010, 09:12 AM

Maybe so, but why not make it at that level of quality and NOT relic it. But then I suppose Fender would not be able to charge a couple of thousand extra dollars for a fake aging job.

blipndub · #14 08-06-2010, 09:19 AM

Pricing for the criminally insane.

PJSShearer · #15 08-06-2010, 09:22 AM

Does it smell of stale beer, stale cigarette smoke and sweat?. If not then you should ask for a percentage of the purchase price back :-)

StuartV · #16 08-06-2010, 09:26 AM

There are lots of posts on here about old 60s and 70s basses that look like that and are referred to as having "mojo". My suspicion is that there may be some substance to that. But, it's not that getting played a lot (and beaten up in the process) makes a bass better (like some folks seem to theorize). I suspect that it's simply that a bass that just happened to be lucky enough to be manufactured in such a way that it has "it" ends up getting played a lot over the years. Other basses that were made at the same time that were more mediocre players don't get played nearly as much and are still pristine after 30 or 40 years.

So, I wouldn't be surprised if an actual 70s Jazz that looks like that is actually a wonderful instrument. But, it's not great because it looks like that. It looks like that because it's great. And a bass that looks like that because it was good enough to get played that much - well, it EARNED that look. It's like Mick Doohan (former multi-time World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle racer) earned his limp. You see it when he walks and you can respect it. But, some shmoe that fudged himself up riding with no helmet and gear and wheelied his shiny new crotch rocket over backwards.... well, no respect there, whatsoever.

A bass like this Master Built Heavy Relic is the no-helmet-wearing poseur punk on the shiny new crotch rocket. It MAY be the greatest thing ever. But, it hasn't earned its limp.

Caca de Kick · #17 08-06-2010, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by JacoLesFlea

Also was never into the whole made to look old, I would rather have my bass age with me.

You know Fender Custom Shop does offer the 70 model in NOS (not relic'ed).

5string5fingers · #18 08-06-2010, 10:51 AM

I don't mind relics and i think that looks like crap and is a complete waste of money...when i see that kind of price i think of coffee table basses. Theres another thread here about a dudes 9 string bass..it cost him 6 grand an some change and it took several years to build...this took fender custom shop maybe week to build and some fun in a parking lot.