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Fender Custom Shop "Club"???

#81
Adrian Juras said:
Here is my new Custom Shop '59 Precision Relic. It is hands down the best P bass I have owned(which inludes a Fender '62Reissue, Early 2000 MIA, 1976 vintage Fender, and a Lakland Gluab). This bass weighs only 7.5 lbs, and NAILS the vintage P bass tone. It is open, deep, and punchy. Killer bass. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend a Custom Shop to anyone looking for a great feeling, great playing, vintage style instrument. In fact, I have found that many of them are better than an actual vintage Fender. Better wood, more attention to detail.
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I gotta get one of 'dem" joints !
 
#82
Adrian Juras said:
Here is my new Custom Shop '59 Precision Relic. It is hands down the best P bass I have owned(which inludes a Fender '62Reissue, Early 2000 MIA, 1976 vintage Fender, and a Lakland Gluab). This bass weighs only 7.5 lbs, and NAILS the vintage P bass tone. It is open, deep, and punchy. Killer bass. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend a Custom Shop to anyone looking for a great feeling, great playing, vintage style instrument. In fact, I have found that many of them are better than an actual vintage Fender. Better wood, more attention to detail.
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Yeah my CS 59 is very deep and punchy, more so than any of my other P-basses in fact.
 
#83
Jason Brown said:
Huh?

Quartersawn is a way of cutting, not a species. It's also only found on the custom shop models from Fender, at least as far as I can tell.
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well if that's the case why then is the neck on my 03 Marcus Miller V Rock Maple,oh and btw the neck on my soon to arrive CS 64 Jazz Relic Rock Maple and the reason that came about was because I bitched,moan, and cajole the find people at Fender about it because the bass was advertised as period correct,which Quatersawn wasn't used back then
 
#84
Jason Brown said:
Huh?

Quartersawn is a way of cutting, not a species. It's also only found on the custom shop models from Fender, at least as far as I can tell.
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Quarter Sawn Lumber

Quarter sawn lumber is perhaps most famous from Oak. The ray flecks that are revealed when quarter sawn, are a prize for many furniture craftsmen (and craftswomen). Besides Oak there are a handful of other species that display a unique appearance when quarter sawn. These unique features are usually only displayed on a quarter sawn board.

But in a production environment, beauty is cast aside for more yield from a log and more production in less time. This is the main reason why you pay more money for quarter sawn lumber. If it takes longer to saw a log and produce less board footage while creating more waste the company will have to charge more money to make up what they lost production. The secondary reason for higher prices are because craftsmen like us will pay more for this lumber, so that we can take advantage of it's character and better properties.

"There is more than one way to skin a cat." as the saying goes. Well, there is more than one way to quarter saw a log also. I will just quickly explain one technique, because all the details of sawing logs to lumber can fill a book or two.

This is the most common way of quarter sawing that I have seen. The first step of this method is to quarter the log (see figure 2). Then each individual quartered section is placed on the carriage in a position so that the annual rings of growth are as close to 90 degrees perpendicular to the face of the boards as possible.

The grain on the face of a quarter sawn board will be tight, straight, parallel lines running the length of the board. And if the rings are very close to 90 degrees from the face, then the famous ray flecks of Quartered Oak, we be proudly display along the face of the board.

One other technique involves re-adjusting the quartered section after each board is sawn. This way they are taking a board then a small wedge shaped slab, then another board and so on. This way the rings are always 90 degrees to the face. But there is a tremendous amount of waste created.

http://www.allwoodwork.com/article/woodwork/plainorquartersawn.htm
 
#86
Bass Viking said:
Cool! Possibly dumb question but Fender wasn't offering that colour in 55 were they?
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Fender did have a few (very limited number) instruments in custom colours. Here's a pic of some of the basses taken at a trade show in 1954

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#89
So I recently acquired this killer playing/sounding CS Jazz bass and I need some info on it...it came with no documentation. Serial #CN70XXXX. Just wondering about the year, some sites say it's 2007 and some say it's 1997. Also, the pickups have one pole piece per string as opposed to the "normal" two pole pieces per string, and the neck is completely bound. Thanks in advance for any info!!
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#90
caesarbass said:
So I recently acquired this killer playing/sounding CS Jazz bass and I need some info on it...it came with no documentation. Serial #CN702209. Just wondering about the year, some sites say it's 2007 and some say it's 1997. Also, the pickups have one pole piece per string as opposed to the "normal" two pole pieces per string, and the neck is completely bound. Thanks in advance for any info!!
These pics don't do the sunburst finish or the wood grain justice, darn cell phone pics!!
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I doubt your bass is a 2007. If you bass has neck binding it will be an older bass. I bought a CS custom classic (what you have) without paperwork brand new that was a managers special and found out the bass was ten years old! my serial# is CN5045** and it's a 1997. Also the single pole pieces were used on the John Suhr Equipped basses and he left Fender R&D in 1998. My CS jazz has custom noiseless pups by the way.
 
#93
I got a very quick response from Fender!! Thanks for the e-mail address Pyrohr!! Here's what they sent me:

Date: 4/22/1998

Model Name: American Classic Jazz Bass®

Model Number: 019-7200-(Color #) and 019-7202-(Color #)

Series: Custom Shop "Custom Classics" Series

Body: Special Vintage Style Down-sized Light Ash Body

Neck: Graphite Reinforced Maple, Bound, Block Inlay

Fingerboard: 019-7200...Rosewood Fretboard, 019-7202... Maple Fretboard

No. of Frets: 22

Scale Length: 34” (864 mm)

Width @ Nut: 1.5” (38 mm)

Hardware: Chrome

Machine Heads: American Deluxe

Bridge: Deluxe (Strings-Thru-Body and Top Load)

Pickguard: Tortoise Shell

Pickups: New Special Design Jazz Bass Style

Pickup Switching: Pan Pot

Controls: Volume, Treble Boost/Cut (+-18db), Bass Boost/Cut (+-18db), Mid Boost/Cut (+-12db), Active Electronics

Colors: (800) 3-Color Sunburst,

(821) Natural

(Polyurethane Finish)

Strings: OEM 8250M #073-8250-006 NPS .045, .065, .085, .110TW (Taperwound E)

Unique Features:

Source: U.S. Fender Custom Shop

Accessories: Black Tolex Case, Strap, Cable

U.S. MSRP: $2599.99

Specs: Prices and Specifications Subject to Change Without Notice

INTRODUCED: 1995

DISCONTINUED: 1/1997

I think this one might be a keeper! I've been looking for a 4 string for a while and this one is really nice!!
 
#97
I've considered the same thing - have you any images with the tort guard on?

Keys player with one of the bands I play in calls this instrument "the egg", referring to the pickguard..don't know if I like the name very much!
 

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