How is it possible (VM Jazz content)

[pallino]

...that a cheapo bass like my Squier VM Jazz has a bird's eye maple neck????

am i the only lucky one or is a common thing?

 

[The BurgerMeister]

nice!

 

[thndrstk6]

Fender sells millions and millions of dollars of products a year so putting a little birds eye on one of their "cheaper" basses is putting less than a dent in their pockets.

 

[pallino]

Fender sells millions and millions of dollars of products a year so putting a little birds eye on one of their "cheaper" basses is putting less than a dent in their pockets.

so why don't they do it also on Fender MIM or MIA branded basses???

 

[allexcosta]

You're lucky. Part of the lumber that went to the Squier factory had that birdseye in the middle of it. I doubt they actually purchased birdseye maple to make this...
Or maybe the factory ran out of regular maple for a day or so and used birdseye instead until they got a new shipment. This is quite common too...

 

[Aarix]

I'm not sure I would call that "birdseye maple". It just has some subtle figuring.

It is nice though!

 

[GreggBummer]

It goes to show you that price and quality do not necessarily go hand in hand.

 

[The Birdman]

You're lucky.....mine does NOT. Just luck of the draw. I have a Jimmie Vaughan sig Strat that has a highly flamed neck, and I've never seen another one that did. I just got lucky with that particular one, as you did.

Roger

 

[GreggBummer]

...that a cheapo bass like my Squier VM Jazz has a bird's eye maple neck????

am i the only lucky one or is a common thing?

Did you notice that those are REAL blocks on the neck and not painted on? I have the same 08 Made In Indo VM Jazz... I have nothing but good things to say about it. The wood is great, construction is great, sound is great.

 

[Jim C]

Congrats
fluke

 

[oversoul]

I saw one a few months ago that had flame to the whole body, I blinked and it was gone.

 

[OriginalCrash]

My first one had a beautiful flame figure to the neck (not the fretboard, though)... Unfortunately, that neck warped. The bass was replaced under warranty, but the one has a very plain maple neck compared to the first.

Brian

P.S. Are the new ones really being made with actual block inlays?

 

[Sub5ound]

Looks like someone was asleep in Fender's Anti-Quality Control room.

 

[Falkner]

Heh, my VMJ is like that too, but I didn't know it wasn't supposed to be.
I'd take pics but I have no camera. Too bad that neck is developing a slight warp. I'm none too happy about that.

 

[(b)Assman]

It's not a "bird's eye" it's a racing stripe.

Your licks will be faster than ever.

 

[kobass]

foto flame?

 

[savit260]

I've seen a Squier Tele bass with a very flamey neck, as well as a few older MIM's with a fair amount of flame as well.

Hell, my SX has a a very flamey maple neck too.

It happens. Luck of the draw I guess. I'm sure they just use what is available to them, and I'd bet dollars to donuts they aren't paying any extra for figured woods.

 

[ProfGumby]

The neck on my VM jazz is lust regular old maple looking, but the body has a lot of figured grain to it, yours however looks fantastic.



Squier VM's and CV are some of the finest deals in the bass world.

 

[therex]

you are not alone, my squier vm pbass hass some kind of flamed look,

 

[phxlbrmpf]

Something similar happened to me with the Ibanez ATK I bought like ten years ago, it has "birdseyes" scattered all over the neck with varying density but overall the figuring isn't as prominent as you see it on "real" birdseye maple. I've never come across another ATK that had figuring like that.