FAIM basses - Made In Argentina

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[Crystalman85]

Hi!
I was wondering if someone knew anything about FAIM basses? I just picked one up. I believe it says "Jupiter Bass" on the body. Other than that I really don't know anything about it, except that it's supposed to be made in Argentina.
Looks cool though, I love the half slotted headstock and clear gloss rosewood(?) fretboard(reminds me of a rickenbacker). I don't think the bridge cover is original, looks like a jazzbass pickup cover. Here's a pic:

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That's a nice looking bass. kinda looks like a cross between a spector and warwick.

 

[Argfede]

leave a link here to cease, a great bass player who is using FAIM

 

[ModelMod]

I started playing on an old and battered FAIM P-Bass... not really great, but lately they have improved in both quality and models. They're doing well with their Mosrite series: there are a lot of Ramone's fans in here!

Regards from Buenos Aires,

Pablo

 

[DiegoMendieta]

Hi!
I was wondering if someone knew anything about FAIM basses? I just picked one up. I believe it says "Jupiter Bass" on the body. Other than that I really don't know anything about it, except that it's supposed to be made in Argentina.
Looks cool though, I love the half slotted headstock and clear gloss rosewood(?) fretboard(reminds me of a rickenbacker). I don't think the bridge cover is original, looks like a jazzbass pickup cover. Here's a pic:

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Hi. I know it's been a long time since you wrote this but maybe you still have that bass and i think i culd tell you some thing about it. I'm from Argentina and i have had a few Faim basses.
First FAIM is For Fabrica Argentina de Instrumentos Musicales which means argentinian factory of musical instruments. They started to build basses arround the seventies, i think and went to bankrupt arround 2010. I heard they are making instruments with another brand, but i can't rememner what was that name. They made afordable basses and guitars and they have relatively succes selling them to begginers musicians. There are a few great argentinien musicians that used to play faim instruments in back in the 80's when it wasent that easy buy an imported instrument because of the economic troubles the country had. At that time Faim was preetty much the only factory building guitars here. There where a few good luthiers though. Faim basses have some good points and some serious issues some times (but mostly
aesthetic), but in my experience, i would recomend them.
Ok about that bass, The jupiter model is a copy of a Riberhead model, Faim did moustly copies of the most succesfull models in the market, PB, JB, Mustang, Steinberger, and lately Ibanez, Corvette, Stingray.
I never had the chance to test a jupiter bass, maybe one day i buy one if i have the chance, but most of the Faim pick ups of that time are the same, a two coil or a splited, as you like, PB alike in a JB cover. The coils are thiner than the original PB so they fit into the JB format. Even when they are rougly (not to far from a chinisse Squier) i like the sound of them, with well defined mid low frecuencies, but it's a totally subjetive thing. In the models jb and pb they got a remarcable similariy with the classic fender tones. I suposse the bass you have combine those two sounds in one.
The woods they used to make their instrumens in the 80's and early 90's (i think your bass was made then) are guatambú for the neck and lenga for the body. Two native woods that sounds awsome togheter. One thing i can assure is that the bass guatambú neck is stable as a rock, it never fails. Maple necks (when they are not builted correctly) tend to twist or do weird things, i've never seen a guatambú neck do that. I'm not sure the fretboard is made with rosewood, i think it might be cancharana or another native wood, viraró, lapacho, there are many optios and i reaally never knew what Faim used to put in frettboards.
I hope you like this information and keep the bass, is a cool rare stuf in Sweden.