Beautiful Fender CS Masterbuilt

Super nice bass.

Mini rant here. I am so sick of Tundra Music's description and pricing on that thing. It is not master built and original retail was around $5,500.

 

Never been much on the bass boat look.

 

Yeah that's a custom shop, not a master built, right? BIG difference.

 

It's on ebay too. Much cheaper.
Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilt LTD Adam Clayton Precision Bass by Paul Whaller | eBay
But not as much as here:
SOLD - Fender Adam Clayton Custom Shop P-Bass, Abby Pups, Jazz Neck - NEW!

 

Correct. Fender's Custom Shop has two levels - Teambuilt and Masterbuilt. Teambuilt are more of an assembly line process. One person is responsible for sanding, one frets, one hardware, one electronics, etc. Masterbuilt is when one person builds the entire bass start to finish. Last I checked, the Masterbuilt fee alone was $2,000. That is on top of the base model price plus options.

The easiest way to tell the difference is by looking at the back of the headstock. A teambuilt bass has the standard Custom Shop Logo. A masterbuilt will have the signature of the builder. This may not be true for some of the "authentic" replicas but the sig should be somewhere on the bass.

Paul Waller Masterbuilt bass:



Custom Shop Adam Clayton Bass:

 

Not a fan of gold, personally. I can appreciate how good it must look to someone who likes gold though!

 

How does the perpetrator of some of the most simplistic, unimaginative, and forgettable bass parts ever, manage to have a bass named after him? Are there people out there who see him as a role model?

 

He's got at least 4 signature basses that I know about. I'm not a fan but he's famous I guess.

 

Hi,
I have that bass and it has nothing to do with Adam Clayton. I prefer a Jazz bass for the body shape and neck in my hands, but I prefer the sound of a P except, I'm not comfortable with the width of the P neck. That one has a J neck plus, the pickups are amazing. And I agree with BIGEJ2, Tundra is playing with the words to attract more money.

 

IMO it would take someone with more money than common since to give that much for that bass.

 

It boggles the mind to think that you can buy TWO Wal or Fodera basses for the price one one basic old plain Fender P.

 

The street price was 4200$ when I bought it in 2012.

 

I see him as a role model. Of course Im familiar with the entire U2 catalog and I suspect you may not be. I assuming you are talking about their more popular songs containing simplistic and unimaginative lines. I would call them lines that serve the song. I don't really care for this bass model though.

 

I'm not sure what you think I meant because your statement doesn't seem to relate to my post in any way.

 

Yawn

 

Because two of his band-mates are on Fender's Board of Directors...