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100% of reviewers	$647.00	9.0

Description:

* Vintage Modified Jazz Bass
* Soft maple body
* One-piece maple neck
* Maple fingerboard
* Black block inlays
* Bound neck
* 20 large frets
* 34" scale
* Chrome hardware
* Vintage-style butterfly tuners
* Vintage-style 4-saddle bridge
* 3-ply black/white/black pickguard
* 2 single-coil Duncan Designed JB101 Jazz Bass pickups with Alnico V magnets
* 2 volume and one tone knob

Author

Linkert
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Registered: October 2006
Location: Stockholm
Posts: 1080

Review Date: Mon July 21, 2008

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: $647.00 | Rating: 9

Pros:
Cons:	Neck

¤ The tone/electronics:
- For the money you give, it's amazingly like a Fender but just not quite there. Im playing it through a Hartke A35 amp with halfwound strings on the bass, and i can get some good Larry Graham tones out of this bass.

The electronics needs shielding tho as it hums quite alot.

¤ Neck:
- It has a nice feel and no buzz but i have found one problem.. The neck is super "soft" or "unstable" so it doesn't do well with any downtuning at all. Even at just at drop D tuning it gets "floppy".
But i have my trusty Ibanez AGB140 to do downtuning stuff on.

¤ Body:
- The wood grain varies quite alot. I got a quite good body match but with "ikea"-table grains..
No problems with the nice finish.

¤ Quality:
- Other then controlknobs going "lose", it has been no quality problems at all.

I give it a 9 for being superb for those without the cash for a real Fender.

PS. The price i payed is the Swedish price so it is much higher then in the US..

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