Poll : Fender Free?

[EdwardofHuncote]

I *had* a Squier Affinity P... cool simple little bass. Looked good in CAR with black pickguard and hardware too. I gave it to a coworker a couple years ago. (so he got a free Fender, and I've been Fender-free since... )

*almost forgot, I also have an 80's MIJ Squier Strat... it's loaned out to another guitar-playing buddy. Great little guitar. Got it from a fellow TB'r too.

 

[Nic.]

For some reason I dislike fender basses but love fender guitars.

 

[bholder]

I'd take a Fender for free, sure. Oh, that's not what you meant?

 

[Kmonk]

I have several Jazz and Precision basses from different eras. I like all of them.

 

[interp]

maybe not...

What is this? It is beautiful!

 

[bassrich]

once Fender never surrender

 

[Dave W]

Although they haven't been my main basses in my current band I have a couple of Fenders that I'll never get rid of.

57' AVRI: best P I've ever player and I've played a lot.

80's Jazz Bass Special: The Duff bass. One of my favorite players and a killer bass too.

 

[brianrost]

I was only Fender-free for about my first decade of playing bass. That was the dark age of the 70s and early 80s when most were really heavy and had fat necks.

 

[cv115505]

I am all Lakland now, but they are all Fender designs

 

[Creeper2]

In my 26 years of playing I've never owned s Fender. I never cared for them as I found the necks too big and I have small hands. I've owned Ibanez and Spector basses over the years but the bass company that does it for me is Warwick.

they make great products, so fat I own 2 Warwick Thumbs that our my pride and joy. A Warwick vampyre Rock bass and a Warwick alien acoustic.

 

[bassstrangler]

6 Fenders, one Squier.

 

[Watchootognbout]

My first bass was "Fender related"
A pre-EBMM '79 "Walnut"Sabre.



Fender didn't make what I wanted.
Which was natural dark wood with a satin finish,no pickguard and with gold hardware.
All I saw was paint,pickguard and chrome.
That's generic and common.

Until 2000.
Then I saw a P-Bass Lyte Deluxe.
Finally!
Natural dark wood with a satin finish,no pickguard and with gold hardware.

Owned it four four years.Then sold it.

In spite of all the "WOW Fender!!"sentiment that I hear out there,I couldn't really say that it was any better that any bass that I play now.
To each his own.

And besides.
Fender will NEVER EVER produce these!

 

[Son of Wobble]

 

[sabre79]

I've had a MusicMan Sabre since I received it as a birthday gift on my 17th birthday in 1979. They'll have to bury it with me or cremate it with me. I'm jonesing real bad for a Fender Mustang PJ in Torino Red with that off white kinda creamy pickguard but I'm as poor as a church mouse. However, I am accepting donations.

 

[Robert Sperling]

Guilty, 1 USA Deluxe Jazz, 1 customized MIM deluxe Jazz (blacked out with a Warmoth
ebony/maple neck), 1 Pbass (that seafoam pearl special edition with the p/j pups, bought
the body loaded with Geezer pups and BAII bridge from TB'er Nickfromny, and attached
the rosewood/maple neck from the MIM Jazz deluxe custom fretless), An '87 L2k, and
my next build a fiesta red p fretless is in the works.

 

[RedJag]

My Jag is one of the most versatile instruments I own.

 

[Son of Wobble]

My Jag is one of the most versatile instruments I own.

 

[Spidey2112]

I went 17 years not owning a Fender, until I got a Geddy Lee Jazz a month ago. Whoops.

Good choice! Well worth the wait.

 

[Herrick]

Even without the Jazz I'd still have a MusicMan Ray. I'm curious who doesnt own any bass that's associated to Leo Fender in any way.

I don't own any. Not because of some silly anti-Fender anti-establishment mentality but because I prefer lighter, sleeker 5-strings with tighter string spacing.

 

[jamro217]

Can't imagine being Fender-less. Three P's, a fretless J and two Franken-mutts. Not counting basses, it's in the double digits.