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Basses Fender/Squier should make

Something like the Fender MB-5 (MIJ). Throw in some EMGs and you have a winner! I still play one, and love the string spacing, size, and neck profile. People have no idea what the MB-5 is either, so I get lots of questions about it. The 5 strings Fender currently offers are like playing a redwood tree. Waaaay too bulky. They got things right with the MB-5, and then quit making it after only a few years!!
 
A Squier Sting signature '51 Precision with some kind of noiseless Seymour Duncan like single-coil pickup with maple fingerboard and a two-tone sunburst like the Fender one. However, I would prefer a 4-saddle adjustable bridge.

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I'd like to see a Tele bass with two single coil pickups--one at the neck, one at the bridge. With series/parallel wiring switch like the J-bass sometimes has.

Or a Jazz bass with a P-neck and twin guitar-sized humbucker routs. Use the bladed pickups, like GFS or Seymour Duncan. GFS Pro-Tubes would look kinda nice with a mirror pickguard that covers the whole control cavity, without the control plate.
 
A fender bass that have all three pickups: jazz bass pickups 70s style with the neck one moved towards the neck a bit more and a split coil precision pickup in the sweet spot. choice of precision or jazz neck with the usual fretboard choices. Now that I would pay full price for.
 
I wish the Squier Classic Vibes were made of alder. The Stratocasters from that line are. It's not fair.

I'd like to see an American Standard '51 Precision Bass. I think it should cost less too. There's much less involved in building them.
 
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