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Show us your Road Worn Fender Basses...!!!

#81
Bone said:
I played a Road Worn P and J at My local Guitar center. Both basses weighed in around 9 lbs. Not heavy or light but about average I'd say. The P bass played great but sounded Choked,after about 15 minutes of trying to get a decent tone out of an SVT and fridge I gave up and put the P back...
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You mean it was sporting a GC setup and didn't rock?

Bone said:
The jazz bass was in bad need of a set up but was a much more lively sounding bass unplugged in and plugged in. With Fenders seems like you have to play a few to find a good one...
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How surprising! Sorry to be sarcastic, but I have never played a well-setup bass at GC. Never, except when I took my '55 in to GC to try some MarkBass gear.

I find it hard to judge any bass in such an environment (or any bass gear). :D
 
#82
Jim Carr said:
How surprising! Sorry to be sarcastic, but I have never played a well-setup bass at GC. Never, except when I took my '55 in to GC to try some MarkBass gear.

I find it hard to judge any bass in such an environment (or any bass gear). :D
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The RW J I tried was also in need of a setup and it was in a local mom and pop shop not a GC so it wasn't just the "GC setup" phenomenon.
 
#83
Jim Carr said:
You mean it was sporting a GC setup and didn't rock?




How surprising! Sorry to be sarcastic, but I have never played a well-setup bass at GC. Never, except when I took my '55 in to GC to try some MarkBass gear.

I find it hard to judge any bass in such an environment (or any bass gear). :D
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Don't know who set it up but as stated it(the P bass) played GREAT just sounded like crap to me. It just didn't have IT to my ears.

As per my post the Jazz sounded great but was poorly set up. I don't judge a bass by setup or fret sprout, but I'd take a nice Level,Dress,and Polish on my frets before I'd take a sanded down finish and dinged up the body. Just sayn.

As for the enviornment, Tuesday afternoon with the bass room all to myself, no wankiing guitar players and the overhead music surprisingly low.

Glad these basses are doing it for some people but I'll pass.
 
#84
Bone said:
Don't know who set it up but as stated it(the P bass) played GREAT just sounded like crap to me. It just didn't have IT to my ears.

As per my post the Jazz sounded great but was poorly set up. I don't judge a bass by setup or fret sprout, but I'd take a nice Level,Dress,and Polish on my frets before I'd take a sanded down finish and dinged up the body. Just sayn.

As for the enviornment, Tuesday afternoon with the bass room all to myself, no wankiing guitar players and the overhead music surprisingly low.

Glad these basses are doing it for some people but I'll pass.
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OK. I stand corrected.

I just don't just an entire line of basses by one instrument.
 
#85
Something's always rubbed me the wrong way about the road worn series.. I saw them at GC a while back, and I dunno.. Something just LOOKS fake about them to me. And beyond that, something also just doesn't sit right with me about paying extra money to pretend to have worn your instrument down through use.
 
#87
flea claypool said:
Im sick of this debate tbh...

Firstly, if someone came on this site showering there new custom shop 64relic with all the dents and the 4K price tag everyone would be like WOO!! ... yet when fender come up with a great idea to offer an image to those that like that for working mans money for a failry decent piece of kit people are just like "oh thats pointless why not just buy a new bass and wear it out"

well thats well in good if your in a touring band.. played a few gigs a week bass gets fkd into the back of the van thrown into the corner.. but what about joe soap who just plays at home, does he HAVE TO HAVE A SHINY BASS?? which is just an obvious sign of him being a none gigging man?? no..

nor does he need to buy a beat up "looking" bass to say "hey look at me i gig".. its personnal taste.. my work boots look better dirty.. my jeans look better clean.. personnal preference.. for the record i have a 91 MIJ jazz which looks brand new and a 06 75 CIJ which is my main bass and is beat to feck! takes fair abuse..

for the record also i love reliced guitars..i have brett making me one as i write this... my Poly finished basses will never look how i want them to in 40yrs.. but in 40yrs time will a Road worn bass be considered cool by the haters?? you tell me.. for those that have bought the RW series basses, fair play.. they look gorgeous and i cant wait to play one and will prob consider one after i get a go!

Aurin
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Say Aurin,

Are there any RW's in Ireland????
They are sold out overhere and a friend a mine at Fender Europe says it will be june or later.
They just cannot keep up with backorders.........!!!:)

Cheers,

Theo
 
#89
Disraeli Gears said:
Something's always rubbed me the wrong way about the road worn series.. I saw them at GC a while back, and I dunno.. Something just LOOKS fake about them to me. And beyond that, something also just doesn't sit right with me about paying extra money to pretend to have worn your instrument down through use.
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Again, this is show your road worn basses and not I'm a snob uber experienced bassist that thinks other bassists are wuss because they like the road worn finish.
 
#90
OK............????

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CS v. RW Wich one is the RW????
 

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