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If I took all subaru forester parts and built it myself, how isn't it a Subaru? I never got the part bass isn't a real whatever brand you like. If all the parts are Fender, then what does it matter who put it together? I would never sell a parts bass without saying it, but still personally would consider it a Fender.
 
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rodv66 said:
If I took all subaru forester parts and built it myself, how isn't it a Subaru? I never got the part bass isn't a real whatever brand you like. If all the parts are Fender, then what does it matter who put it together? I would never sell a parts bass without saying it, but still personally would consider it a Fender.
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My point
 
#125
Tho
bassbenj said:
Of course he would because his friends a idiot! A parts bass isn't a Fender. It's a FrankenFender no more a real P-bass than the Frankenstein monster was a real human! If you were honest you'd put a big sticker on the headstock that says "Homemade bass from Fender parts". It sure doesn't deserve anything that looks like a Fender Factory logo any more than putting a Fender logo on an SX P-bass is honest. And your friend probably won't tell you this, but I know plenty of guitar players who will, namely, that anyone who plays anything but a true FACTORY ASSEMBLED P-bass (with flats and tort, natch) is someone who is not serious about their music. So get rid of that Frankenstein bass and buy a real honest-to-God American Standard Fender P-bass hopefully paying full list price from some mom and pop storefront. Nobody who buys a bass (even a real Fender) from some big box discount outfit can be considered serious about their music. Think about it.

So do you want to end up like me playing Squier and SX? Do you wan't everyone saying you aren't serious about your music? Of course, I have a different viewpoint and I bought a bunch of SX logos from Rondo for the SX basses I refinished, and then put SX logos on my real factory Fenders! I thought that was a hoot! But then that is my less than serious sense of humor.
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guess there just snobs
 
#126
drummer5359 said:
When the American Standard Jaguar bass came out in 2014 I was disappointed that it was not available with a maple fingerboard. I took me a month or two to formulate my crazy plan, and a couple of months more to buy the parts and put it together.

I bought both a 2012 American Select Precision bass neck and a 2014 American Standard Jaguar body off of "The Stratosphere" and put them together. I love it. The neck says Fender Precision, but it's a bit of a mutt and I'm happy with that. I happen to like mutts.

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Jags look much better with maple frets
 
#128
Dr. Cheese said:
I think the friend is correct. If it is made from parts, it may have two serial numbers. It's a parts bass, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
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All jazz basses or basses from fender have different serial numbers. The body has one under the pickups and the neck has another. both parts are made in house at different times and there for have different serial numbers
 
#129
All the parts where per
LowDownHawkeye said:
I'm not sure yet where I stand on the question. I have a few questions. Where did you obtain these genuine fender parts? From fender itself or one of their suppliers? And did you put them together in a configuration that Fender ever produced? And have you been trained by Fender to put them together?

Guess the last question is a dangerous one-if someone buys an instrument that is unquestionably a Fender, later has to have a tech replace a Fender component, does that make it no longer a Fender because it wasn't a Fender trained person who replaced it?

Glad I don't have a stake in whether any of my instruments are a genuine Fender (or
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LowDownHawkeye said:
I'm not sure yet where I stand on the question. I have a few questions. Where did you obtain these genuine fender parts? From fender itself or one of their suppliers? And did you put them together in a configuration that Fender ever produced? And have you been trained by Fender to put them together?

Guess the last question is a dangerous one-if someone buys an instrument that is unquestionably a Fender, later has to have a tech replace a Fender component, does that make it no longer a Fender because it wasn't a Fender trained person who replaced it?

Glad I don't have a stake in whether any of my instruments are a genuine Fender (or genuine Yamaha, or genuine Carvin, or whatever).
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all parts were purchased on fender.com
 
#132
Anyo
bassbenj said:
Of course he would because his friends a idiot! A parts bass isn't a Fender. It's a FrankenFender no more a real P-bass than the Frankenstein monster was a real human! If you were honest you'd put a big sticker on the headstock that says "Homemade bass from Fender parts". It sure doesn't deserve anything that looks like a Fender Factory logo any more than putting a Fender logo on an SX P-bass is honest. And your friend probably won't tell you this, but I know plenty of guitar players who will, namely, that anyone who plays anything but a true FACTORY ASSEMBLED P-bass (with flats and tort, natch) is someone who is not serious about their music. So get rid of that Frankenstein bass and buy a real honest-to-God American Standard Fender P-bass hopefully paying full list price from some mom and pop storefront. Nobody who buys a bass (even a real Fender) from some big box discount outfit can be considered serious about their music. Think about it.

So do you want to end up like me playing Squier and SX? Do you wan't everyone saying you aren't serious about your music? Of course, I have a different viewpoint and I bought a bunch of SX logos from Rondo for the SX basses I refinished, and then put SX logos on my real factory Fenders! I thought that was a hoot! But then that is my less than serious sense of humor.
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anyone who judges how serious someone is about there music basses on the kind of jazz bass configuration/bass or strings they use is clearly a idiot themselves.
 
#134
Axstar said:
As a grammar Nazi I take umbrage with about 33% of everything I read on the Internet. I also feel that trivial use of the term 'Nazi', effectively equating a genocidal and deeply destructive ideology with the notion that language rules should be adhered to to avoid confusion and conflict, is somewhat distasteful.

Below a certain threshold of grammar quality you begin to lose the ability to convey your thoughts coherently. On the Internet this causes major problems, that could be avoided.
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MS Word would like you to remove that last comma before continuing with the grammar check. I didn't actually run your post through MS Word, but it does squawk in such cases. Oh dear, the Grammarly plugin for Firefox, which I've just installed as of this sentence, has found "to to" in your post as well -- but thank goodness it's only a false positive.

If I were taking umbrage at 33% of what I read on the internet due to OGD (obsessive grammarian disorder), I would retire to a nice, dark cave, there to spend the rest of my days. I'm glad that you're able to manage it so well and can bring your concerns to the table. You're right, you know, you're no Nazi. Just punctilious and proud of it.

Incidentally, Grammarly takes no umbrage at your last comma. When it comes to commas, I've long been suspicious of Word's distinction between which and that. I'll stop obeying that rule except when submitting prose to customers who are guaranteed to freak out about the dread red squigglies. OMG I love this plugin. Oops, "Missing punctuation after interjection". And now it's complaining about a missing article in its own error message. How very meta.
 
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