Fender history

[GODSBASSMAN]

Can't seem to find whether or not Fender ever offered a Jazz bass with natural ash body, maple neck and fret board. Is this missing? Passive not active. Any knowledge on this ?

 

[okcrum]

The 1970s Fender catalogs indicate that you could order a natural ash Jazz with maple fingerboard option, so there are probably a few around.

Fender Jazz Bass - 1972 Fender catalogue - page 19

 

[Garret Graves]

I thought that Marcus Millers original Fender bass from the seventies was exactly as you described? The ash/maple look is rather iconic in the Fender bass line, as far as Jazz basses go. I don't think the original bass was active?

 

[tjh]

Sure they did .. First couple years of the American Series (2000-'02) I had a couple of them ...

 

[GODSBASSMAN]

Well. Fender is now offering one in the "professional" model 2017 and as a V 5 string. I found out this in Fender.com basses lineup. Put one on order at local music store. I call that good timing for me?

 

[JTE]

Maple necks and natural bodies were noth standard options in the 1972 catalog, so that combination was easily available for at least ten years. And as GarretGraves said, Marcus Miller's bass started as a stock Fender product. Roger Safowsky putnthe preamp in it a good while after Miller nought the bass.