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Basses Fender/Squier should make
- Thread starter Stinsok
- Start date
Not a fan of Fenders but if they made a Squier Steve Harris, I'd be all over it!
A Squier PJ -
- Vintage Modifed range
- 4 string
- Precision body, gloss finish
- Maple neck & board, bound & blocked in black, with the 1.615" nut width (a la the Nate Mendel sig); satin finish on neck, gloss on fretboard and headstock
- Standard Squier VM precision pup, and a split-coil Jazz pup in the bridge
- The bridge from the current VM PJs (Invalid Link Removed)
- Squier-brand Ultralite tuner copies (those should exist..)
- Stealth A-string retainer, or a Hipshot-style 3 string retainer
- Master volume, master tone & a 4 way rotary pickup selector/switch (P pup, both in series, both in parallel, J pup)
- Knurled chrome knobs
- Same lightweight bodies they use for the current VM PJs
- Full-size pots & Switchcraft jack, just to save me swapping them out
- B/W/B pickguard
- Colour choices of at least black, 3TSB, oly white, CAR, LPB, surf green, shell pink
I'm not saying it's realistic... but if this happened with the same build quality as the current VM PJs, I'd probably end up with 5 or 6.
Just in case I ever get a signature model, I guess
- Vintage Modifed range
- 4 string
- Precision body, gloss finish
- Maple neck & board, bound & blocked in black, with the 1.615" nut width (a la the Nate Mendel sig); satin finish on neck, gloss on fretboard and headstock
- Standard Squier VM precision pup, and a split-coil Jazz pup in the bridge
- The bridge from the current VM PJs (Invalid Link Removed)
- Squier-brand Ultralite tuner copies (those should exist..)
- Stealth A-string retainer, or a Hipshot-style 3 string retainer
- Master volume, master tone & a 4 way rotary pickup selector/switch (P pup, both in series, both in parallel, J pup)
- Knurled chrome knobs
- Same lightweight bodies they use for the current VM PJs
- Full-size pots & Switchcraft jack, just to save me swapping them out
- B/W/B pickguard
- Colour choices of at least black, 3TSB, oly white, CAR, LPB, surf green, shell pink
I'm not saying it's realistic... but if this happened with the same build quality as the current VM PJs, I'd probably end up with 5 or 6.
Just in case I ever get a signature model, I guess
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You're right.
Ok then, I want a Matt Freeman Sig without the sig, and a 1.625 nut. A VM headstock decal would be cool, too.
Mahogany Jazz body, Precision pickups, Ebony fingerboard, maple Jazz neck and Telecaster headstock.
Fewer renditions of the same things and instead focus on QC more.
Fender seems overstretched to me.
Fender seems overstretched to me.
+1 on the 80's series basses. I don't think Fender has ever made an 80's style bass reissue type thing. Some great ideas here. Also +1 on the Squier Steve Harris (so much more affordable) and on reissuing the Jazz Bass Special!
I'm thinking a P bass with no pickguard (I hate those things)//no routing on the front of the body, with a 1 piece maple neck.
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Just give me a squier Jazz bass special in a custom blue finish with white accents (knobs, plastic pickup covers, Binding), either matching or black headstock, All chrome hardware: Babics bridge, huge 70's tuners, three string tree, strap pins. Or 66 slab precision bass like the ox's!
