Check My Grain!

[Quadzilla]

Check out the beautiful grain on this P. Believe it or not, she's an old 82/83 MIJ Squier that I picked up a month or two ago. She came to me with all cavities fully copper shielded (with solder between the copper folds).

I popped in a Sadowsky pickup. Oh my she sings. Build quality LITERALLY rivals or exceeds Fender USA basses of that era (and most eras).

The bass absolutely kills. Man the early 80's MIJ stuff is where it's at. Never had a dud from these old MIJ Fenders. Build quality a QA was superb back then.

 

[Johnny Alien]

A JV Squier is on my "to own" list.

Great looking bass.

 

[fenderfunker]

I've bought a few MIJ necks, and I could not be happier with them. Only small gripe I have, is the holes for the tuners is half an inch, and MIA tuners are 11/16". Go fig???
Nice bass BTW.

 

[BruceBass3901]

The grain on that is absolutely gorgeous

 

[the art guy]

Big +1 on the early '80s MIJ basses. I just picked up a Squier P from that era, and it's easily higher quality than most '70s-'80s Fenders I've played. Plus my main player (a Franken-P with a '72 body) has an '83 Squier Bullet neck on it, which is probably the best neck I've played.

Bottom line: in my opinion, '80s MIJ Squiers are by far the best bargain on the market if you like Fenders.

Oh, and nice bass, Quad.

 

[Gibenbackerbass]

Nice!

 

[Ewo]

Good looking, IMO.

My experience with Fenders (of various eras, and various models) is that the quality was often inconsistent. A bad bass could be a real stinker, but a good one was a gem.

Glad ya got yerself a gem.

 

[BartmanPDX]

Yeah, those early '80s MIJ Fenders are some of the best basses Fender ever made, IMO. They're a tremendous value as well.

Nice score, Quad!

 

[freakfingers12]

Wow, you lucky clown!

 

[themurm523]

nice bass
p.s. i like the thread name if its supposed to be a pun at Alice in Chains' "Check my Brain"

 

[KNURRR]

nice looking grain, but it does not beat this one imo ;-)

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[cigi]

Cool bass! Love the 80s japanese fenders.

Got me this 1986 japanese precision last saturday. Best P I've ever played.

Very light, straight neck and thunderous sound!