I scooped this dead mint 2013 burst and rosewood from my local GC the other day. I have no idea how it slipped through as it looks almost untouched, even had the plastic wrap over the pickguard (6 year old adhesive wasn't too much fun to deal with but whatever). Thanks to whoever kept if in such good condition for me!
There really was something cool about the American Standard line. Don't get me wrong, I've played a few different American Professionals and tried a few elites and the build quality is right up there, maybe even superior.
I really do dig the CS pickups over the vmods. Pickups are easy enough to change, but the medium jumbo frets feel better to me than the narrow tall ones and that's a little more involved to address. It isn't all dumping on the new / current ones though, I think Fender is doing a much better job with the nut and the taller fluted tuning posts are in my opinion an improvement over the older stubby shape. I am probably going to get some, along with a stealth retainer for the A string before too long.
The routing was a wash, no CNC hole on mine but it does have that oversized neck pickup route and a channel running to the control plate. Oh well.
Having a chance to try out a super clean practically New Old Stock after a few years really highlighted some of the differences I had started to forget about after spending so much time with the "new normal".
Blah blah words, new bass day.
There really was something cool about the American Standard line. Don't get me wrong, I've played a few different American Professionals and tried a few elites and the build quality is right up there, maybe even superior.
I really do dig the CS pickups over the vmods. Pickups are easy enough to change, but the medium jumbo frets feel better to me than the narrow tall ones and that's a little more involved to address. It isn't all dumping on the new / current ones though, I think Fender is doing a much better job with the nut and the taller fluted tuning posts are in my opinion an improvement over the older stubby shape. I am probably going to get some, along with a stealth retainer for the A string before too long.
The routing was a wash, no CNC hole on mine but it does have that oversized neck pickup route and a channel running to the control plate. Oh well.
Having a chance to try out a super clean practically New Old Stock after a few years really highlighted some of the differences I had started to forget about after spending so much time with the "new normal".
Blah blah words, new bass day.
