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#61
Are we talking Fender USA and MIM?

There's a ton of great color options for MIJ past and present.

Did someone say matching headstock?

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(ok, so the tuners aren't like the original 66 - but you get the idea)
 
#62
I was thinking a Squier Victor Bailey at the same great quality level as a Classic Vibe 60's Jazz would be very nice. It would be a great way to throw those of us who are Squier lovers a nice bone. Then I wouldn't have to try to FrankenSquier™ one.

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iJazz - My GAS came in a Squier wrapper.
 
#68
superjesus said:
I'd like to see the P-Lyte brought back, preferably w/ alder bodies and MIJ. 4's are fine w/ me, but 5's are ok too.
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A P Lyte with an alder body? Will it still be lyte? They were made with basswood or mahogany. Mine's basswood. It's a crap wood for bodies if you ask me but it is lyte. Mahogany would be better. Basswood finally has me convinced that wood does matter.

I would like to see a Lyte that's updated, though. There was a lot of suckage on the originals. I thought the pickup and preamp sucked, and it could have been built with a sturdier neck. And of course no basswood, which sucks all the life out of vintage style pickups. That pretty much leaves the tuners and the bridge as the only things that didn't suck. The bridge is especially great. And yet, even with all that suckage, mine has been my main player since I got it a few years ago.
 
#79
I'd like to see Fender Corona distinguish itself by their superior tonewoods, fit and finish instead of tagging their non-USA models with certain visual specs that scream "budget bass!!!". The following would be a nice start.

1) 70s spacing* on the MIJ so-called 75RI Jazz Bass.

2) A three-bolt neck on the MIM 70s Classic Jazz (as it has the headstock-adjusting bullet truss rod) OR a heel-adjusting truss rod to go with the four-bolt neck that it currently has.

*The audibility of Jazz pickup spacing is a topic of debate around here, and I'd rather not get into that, but there's no way the Japanese or Mexicans just er, uh... missed the visual difference. None.

I wish someone had started a thread like this back when MIM jazzes hummed and buzzed like a beehive because two identical pickups (yes, identical in size, winding, and polarity) were being used :D
 
#80
peledog said:
Are we talking Fender USA and MIM?
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Mainly, yes.

There's a ton of great color options for MIJ past and present.
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True, Fender Japan puts out a much more varied and interesting color pallete, often with matching headstocks, and they are beautiful. Trouble is, aside from the few models and limited runs that actually get authorized to sell in the USA, Fender Japan models can be kind of hard to get ahold of and very expensive.

And I've had a couple Fender Japan models that made me wish I'd held out for the USA version. Not everything they produce over there is superior to MIA.

But Fender could put out a couple more colors on the more affordable MIM and lower end USA stuff, and not make us chase halfway around the globe for it. I recently bought two 2010 MIM P Basses for the road, white and burst (outstanding P basses BTW), if they had offered more than black and red I might have sprung for one more.
 

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