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Fender American Vintage Line

marchone

marchone

Since 1951
Nov 30, 2009
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#1
These threads have been great and I think it's fantastic Fender is finally building new basses that seem to be as good as the originals.

Now they need to issue an American Vintage 1968 Telecaster model. White slab body, one piece maple neck and fingerboard, one passive single coil pickup. That would pretty much complete the line.

The Sting Precision Bass model is the closest, but is patterned after the original '51 Precision which had a Sunburst color finish, and who needs the signature on the fretboard? It's tacky.

Nash Guitars has their T-68. How about it, Fender?
 
#2
marchone said:
These threads have been great and I think it's fantastic Fender is finally building new basses that seem to be as good as the originals.

Now they need to issue an American Vintage 1968 Telecaster model. White slab body, one piece maple neck and fingerboard, one passive single coil pickup. That would pretty much complete the line.

The Sting Precision Bass model is the closest, but is patterned after the original '51 Precision which had a Sunburst color finish, and who needs the signature on the fretboard? It's tacky.

Nash Guitars has their T-68. How about it, Fender?
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Nothing recent here, the American vintage line has been as good or better than it is now since 1982. Also, the Sting model is closer to a 1953 Precision since it has body contours. Even though I and many others love them, I doubt we are going to see any additional single coil P variations from Fender; they just aren't nearly as hot a sellers as the split coil models.
 
#3
The Artist Series wasn't available in 1982.

I'm 58 and old enough to remember what they offered in the late '60s. All you had to choose from by 1968 was a Precision, Jazz or Telecaster.

But you're right, the single-coil Tele was never popular enough and consequently dropped by '72 or so. Still, if they want to right things historically it wouldn't be a big leap from the many variations they now have.
 

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