NBD - Jazz flame top blue burst

Beautiful. I'm a P-bass guy but I'd gig that all year long.

Congrats.

 

The flame on yours looks better than the stock photo on guitar center's site

 

I absolutely love these!
Congratulations !!!

 

Nice top in that one! Sweet!

Congrats!

 

I have one of the early ones. They are wonderful basses. Congrats!

 

that's a beautiful ax, @elillywv! very nice --- congratulations on your new instrument!

 

Mine came with Player Series Alnico V pickups. Not sure if the newer ones have the same pickups or not.

 

I’d like to share some somewhat interesting info I acquired on this model. Take it all with a grain of salt since I have NO documentation on what I’m about to share. The info comes from a Fender sales rep and a GC store manager. Both guys are friends of mine and shared this info with me at different times.

According to them, there were two runs of these basses. In late 2020, Fender made a limited batch of them as part of the 75th anniversary promotion. If I understand correctly, most went to the European market and only a handful were sold in the States. This first batch used maple tops that had quite a bit of quilting in them. The basses sold enormously well, so Fender decided to make a second, larger run of them in early summer 2021. The only real difference between this run and the first run is that the tops had more flame and less quilt. This isn’t a better/worse thing; it’s just a difference in appearance. The guys know of no other differences that they told me about.

 

I've been playing mine all night. Yeah I broke down and got one. All I can say is wow. It's a whole different world from my P and my P/J. I like it, a lot.

 

I have seen a handful that were 70s styled (70s pickup spacing and binding/blocks).

Were those part of that European run mentioned?

 

Those were japanese miki gakki exclusives