I suspect that if one used the right search terms s/he might conjure up a whole lot of Fender catalogs on Google Images. According to legend, the model used on a lot of those beach pics was the photographer's daughter.
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1968 Fender catalog page
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I suspect that if one used the right search terms s/he might conjure up a whole lot of Fender catalogs on Google Images. According to legend, the model used on a lot of those beach pics was the photographer's daughter.
"Yeah, it's impressive. But you should see the balls that go with it!"
That was about the time I ordered a burgundy colored lefty Mustang bass. About 18 months later I cancelled it.
I'll have to take your word on it, as I am not a cannon aficionado.
Well, first thing is we have to keep our timelines in order. We did not get Freddie Fender until the 1970s; but we had Freddy Cannon as far back as the fifties.
The bass second from the right is exactly like my first bass that I got in 1971.
No joke, they often would put the weight of guns of that era on the muzzle, and it could vary a good bit over different guns of the same make, just like guitars (though I don't see any info of that sort on this one). Maybe today's makers could take that lead and lsit weight on the back of the headstock or something!
Somewhere in one of the mid-sixties catalogs is a full-page pic of a guy with a CAR P bass, flirting with a blonde about halfway up the seats in an empty auditorium. I have not had that catalog for decades and cannot find the image on the web, but perhaps one of you still has the catalog.
While searching for this pic I did run across one of the cannon model in the green dress posed in a studio shot, standing right by the mic.
While searching for this pic I did run across one of the cannon model in the green dress posed in a studio shot, standing right by the mic.
I used to work at a local military museum and one of my jobs was to clean a cannon like that in their main display room. So...yeah.
And I was playing all throughout most of that time, starting in 1967 and I only saw one being used in a band. A local country singer was using it as a rhythm guitar, sometime during the late 70's early 80's. So that's one Fender V and one Fender VI I saw in the wild.
I believe they put the weight of the round on the muzzles: twenty pound, forty pound, etc. Bass weights can vary so widely even among the same make and model that individual weighting may not be feasible. Perhaps more useful to put recommended string gauges and tensions?
I ran into one of those at a dealer a while back. It was … interesting. I think the reduced shifting wasn't as big of a deal to most folks as the wider neck of the V. I've got ginormous hands; I'd be OK with it, but most folks, not so much. Don't remember the asking price, but it was enough that I wasn't tempted.
Interesting to see that at face value, we have a 5 and a 6 string bass pictured just the same as the Jazz and Precision. Not what you think of when you think of Fender basses, but it was a pretty diverse lineup. Where's the Mustang bass?
Not a legend at all. Bob Perine was the photographer for many of the early Fender ads and catalog photos, most famously the "You won't part with yours either!" ads. He used his daughter Lisa in a number of the photos. I had SUCH a crush on her when I was 14, and it was one of the reasons I was ecstatic when my family moved to California in early 1965. My teen-age dreams were soon fulfilled. I started a band, and played my first paid gig at a Christmas party in 1965.
Robert Perine | Vintage Guitar® magazine
They put the weight of the barrel. And usually an inspector mark and some foundry ID. The barrel weights vary just like basses, which is why I was (jokingly) suggesting bass manufacturers do the same. Only the barrels vary by up to hundreds of pounds.
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