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Cancelled Fender Custom Shop order
- Thread starter kim workman
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So you want to slag his reputation because he has a total of 6 posts. Gotcha.
Not sure what his post count has to do with it either.
It's pretty easy to call someone a liar from the comfort of your easy chair.
I’ve had the opportunity to play two Fender CS Basses. One was a P which was fantastic. Totally worth the price. The other was a J which was a little baffling. Not worth the price at all IMO.
Fender is cool and all but for a made to order build of CS quality it’s hard to beat USA Lakland. There is love in those necks.
I was checking out Dan Lakin’s new site the other day and it had me thinking.....
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Fender is cool and all but for a made to order build of CS quality it’s hard to beat USA Lakland. There is love in those necks.
I was checking out Dan Lakin’s new site the other day and it had me thinking.....
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My point was simply he made the initial post and bailed. Others have had unanswered questions. It's also easy to make baseless accusations from the comfort of one's chair, right?
All we have is his story from the OP.
If only he had 500 posts saying "tort!" then his testimony might mean something 
I'm simply saying if you're going to come on a public forum and bash a business people are going to have questions, and people did.
But he's gone.
Whatever, I am aware that bashing Fender, among others, is jolly good sport here on Talkbass.
Please, continue...
Really? How so? Seems every outlet is reporting such a thing. Again, not an excuse, but still an unavoidable circumstance.
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Understandable, you never know, maybe the OP was in HIS easy chair when he posted, then a gas main blew and his house exploded, thus the single post. There are plenty of posts in this thread corraborating his ill will sentiments about the 'Fender Custom Shop'. Take note of the middle word in single quotes. So in 2019 I wrote them and wanted them to make me a Jackson reverse pointy headstock neck. It's a real product, not something from scratch, all the tooling requirements and machine shop drawings already exist. Fender owns Jackson, right? They flat out told me no. Really? Again, back to that middle word in quotes. Thats my ill will towards the famed 'Fender Custom Shop'. I told them fine, I will have the Chinese make it, they are experts in copying the real deal of anything. So to Shanghai I went with my $200.00 in Jan 2020. Took 1.3 years (of course this is when the Covid exploded in China). I just laid it up on my Dingwall neck in lower pic but it's going on a Jackson I am having a custom image/painting done in, and that has been in the works for 1.3 years now. All I ever do is wait..whatever.
Valenti, Fodera, Lull (did Mike have a group of employees to hand over his machines, skills, and ethics to?.[/QUOTE]
Yes.
Years ago I had a warranty issue with one of my CS basses and started a thread here about it venting my frustration. Soon after I got an unsolicited PM from someone at Fender reaching out to me and working to ensure I was taken care of. I don’t know how often they pay attention to threads here or elsewhere but in my case things ended well. And when I got my bass back it was absolutely superb. All that’s to say maybe the OP has had a similar overture.
Or perhaps Fender reached out and silenced him...for good.
Listening to what you want I can't recommend Warmoth highly enough. They're back ordered too but should only take maybe three months to get the body and neck to you. Then either have someone put it together for you or if you're at all good with a soldering iron and doing a setup do it yourself.
I built a custom P bass that way and got exactly what I wanted. A jazz-width neck in curly maple with a light satin finish and a fretless ebony fingerboard paired with a curly maple P bass body and a CS '62 P bass pickup. All tolled it was about $1300 and it's absolutely gorgeous.
They should be able to do exactly what you are describing for under $1500 and I'll put its quality up against the Fender Customer Shop any day of the week.
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My thought. RS Guitarworks in KY. They will create whatever Fender style you care to have. I have 4 basses right now. 2 Fender Custom Shop and 2 RS Guitarworks. A 55 and 59 style P basses. The woods, electronics, pickups, and playability, kick those 2 Fender Custom Shop basses asses around the block and back. Give RS Guitarworks a shout.
Well, that is a good bit of info. I was considering plunking down for a MJT Jazzmaster body vs getting a Warmoth and just finishing it myself. Looks like I have some nitro to purchase now.
OregonMike
I ordered my 60th Anniversary Jazz bass (pictured) and waited about 4 months, and when it came in, the pickups were both wired to the bridge pickup pot. I knew by the sound that they were both on at 100%, but still, my first stacked-knob Jazz and to experience that? Dog-doo of the highest order! Nonetheless, I just re-wired the neck pickup to the neck pick-up pot and she now sings like a bird.
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I just bought a G&L fallout bass in olympic White. Wow what a bass. So much better than Fenders. Also I think Squires are really good, the fretting is always great and the Indian Laurel they're using on the fingerboards is beautiful.
