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Dear Fender
- Thread starter Willie5String
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I love my fenders but so much this. Hundreds of options at dozens of price points many inspired by fender and probably doing fender "better" by many's standards
Speak for yourself, buddy.
5-string player here. I try to avoid 24 feets.
I haven’t seen anyone opposed to it. I’ve only seen responses that say they have no need for one. I’m sure those respondents wouldn’t care if Fender decided to build them.
Fender Jazz 24/5
I always wondered if a strategy for Fender would be to market copies of the best FSO builders' best selling basses, i.e., leverage someone else's market research, if you will.
Obviously, I was wrong.
Their bag is, like Harley Davidson or Leica is to endlessly recycle their classic models with tiny tweaks that the casual buyer simply thinks is their Fender bass, and the truly obsessive stay endlessly churning to get the latest version of the same old thing with some trick color or hardware or Signature model of this year's flavor. They made excellent 'other' instruments like this, the Roscoe Becks, the Dimensions, the PBass Lyte and many more who have short shelf lives and withdrawn (much like the Japanese) after relatively short runs.
I used to shake my head, but now I just think I don't know anything.
Hahaha! I could edit it to fix. But I'm not gonna. I said what I said.
The fretboard would go all the way to the neck pickup. A stingray that can't be slapped? My brain hurts.
I doubt Fender gives much thought to any random customer suggestions or requests. They conduct their own research and also have a stable of professional players and performing artists to solicit product suggestions from or bounce their own ideas off.
Dear Fender,
Improve your quality control and stop shipping out instruments with major flaws.
Signed,
Consumers
* Oh wait, they responded already! *
Dear Consumers,
Here's a Gold Foil Jazz Bass. Enjoy!!!
Insincerely,
FMIC
Improve your quality control and stop shipping out instruments with major flaws.
Signed,
Consumers
* Oh wait, they responded already! *
Dear Consumers,
Here's a Gold Foil Jazz Bass. Enjoy!!!
Insincerely,
FMIC
Only the smart manufacturers would monitor Talkbass.Every 5 string player except me
Do people who post these “Dear <insert company name>” threads ever contact the company in question? I doubt Fender's marketing department has a guy reading TB every day…
Better, but...
... not this one.
I'm not interested in a Fender 5, as that itch is well scratched by others such as my Ibanezes, so a Fender would be have to be so extraordinary and amazing to pique my interest and get me to open my wallet. It's not an impossible situation, just highly unlikely and the big F would be better to served to stay in their lane, endlessly regurgitating the same old, same old designs.
