They're spelled "SQUIERS". You're mixing up all the letters and even leaving out a few now. Where is @superfreak? Everyone is getting crazy here! Need spelling assistance!
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perhaps the inversion of the e and i in weird was too esoteric a referenceWhen you do this, remember to use the facetious font.
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Please help educate me.
These normally retail for $2199.99 - Fender American Vintage '64 Jazz Bass - 3 Color Sunburst while an American Standard retails at $1399.99 - Fender American Standard Jazz Bass, Rosewood - Black .
Aside from the throwback specs, what is the big difference?........tone?......playability?......and do the differences account for that much difference in price?
I own an Am Stnd P-5 and in my humble opinion they are hard to beat as far as production basses go. So if the main difference between the two lines are the throwback specs and looks, I find it hard to believe they are worth that much more.
However, the $1299.99 price doesn't sound bad at all.
These normally retail for $2199.99 - Fender American Vintage '64 Jazz Bass - 3 Color Sunburst while an American Standard retails at $1399.99 - Fender American Standard Jazz Bass, Rosewood - Black .
Aside from the throwback specs, what is the big difference?........tone?......playability?......and do the differences account for that much difference in price?
I own an Am Stnd P-5 and in my humble opinion they are hard to beat as far as production basses go. So if the main difference between the two lines are the throwback specs and looks, I find it hard to believe they are worth that much more.
However, the $1299.99 price doesn't sound bad at all.
I think the biggest issue making the prices differ is Hype.
This is a Squire:
No affiliation with Fender
Really? That is clearly a Rickenbacker...
The reason they're able to make this huge price reduction is because that's the price it should be selling for in the first place.
And it's probably a discontinued color. The only '74 RI on sale is the white.
When they first came out a local place had a LPB one with a matching headstock. Awesome bass, but it eventually sold on sale for about $1400. I think in the market these are worth the asking price, but on the market they aren't necessarily fetching that all the time.
When they first came out a local place had a LPB one with a matching headstock. Awesome bass, but it eventually sold on sale for about $1400. I think in the market these are worth the asking price, but on the market they aren't necessarily fetching that all the time.
Can not answer all your questions, but try for a start:
Nitro finish - makes it more expensive (if you like it or not),
They come with a thumbrest, an ashtray and a neck-PU cover, an extra set of strings (flatwounds), a vintage strap:if you like it or not, it costs.
Vintage Hardcase and all that case candy....
To me it seems, you hardly find one of the American Vintage Series instruments that isn't relatively lightweight. Buying a US standard series you have to be lucky...
Rounded fingerboard edges.
Now just my personal 2 cents: they simply sound and look much better and come with the correct pickguards.
And even more personal: Standards don't come in nitro faded sonic blue or daphne blue with a matching headstock...
And they do it to grab money from people like me, who don't even look at US standards...
So they warrant an extra $100 for the finish
$30 for the set of strings
$100 for the case
not sure about the rounded fingerboard edges, but a better neck shouldn't be but about $50 extra
case candy, $50
So, you're looking at $330 worth of stuff. I guess it is a good deal, but not at the original price.
I wonder if they're sold out yet.
$30 for the set of strings
$100 for the case
not sure about the rounded fingerboard edges, but a better neck shouldn't be but about $50 extra
case candy, $50
So, you're looking at $330 worth of stuff. I guess it is a good deal, but not at the original price.
I wonder if they're sold out yet.
Thanks DirkP.
I played a few Am Stnds at GC before I purchased mine. It's sometimes hard to tell how well you like a bass until it gets a set up the way you like it. Especially one at GC that's been handle by so many, but they all felt pretty good to me. I eventually made my choice on color, Candy Cola with maple fingerboard. Again, just my humble opinion, but I like the Am Stnd line of basses.
Tone & looks? Well that's in the ear and eyes of the beholder. No right or wrong. We are all different and that's why they make so many different kinds.
I don't look at it as one tone being better, but rather as I prefer one tone over another. And that can sometimes change depending on the song. I own a modded Squier Jazz bass that I choose over my p-bass at one venue we play because of it's thinner sound. The room has high ceilings and the sound can get boomy if your not careful.
So I still find it hard to see the $800.00 difference in retail price.
Oh yeah, I do like the matching headstocks as well. One of the mods on my Squier was a refinish and I had them paint the head stock too......surf green.
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Any of my squIREs will make that guitar redundant and my enderF will make it look silly outright.
