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#2,161
Diesel Kilgore said:
C.Linton, where did you get that sweet bridge cover? What was that originally off of? I've never seen one that long with the "F" on it. Really cool.
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It's a readily available aftermarket bridge cover for a Jazz bass from Fender itself. I got mine from BassPartsResource for about tweny or so bucks. Musician's Friend and Allparts.com has them as well. Just about any place that sells guitar and bass parts will probably have them, they're not that hard to find.
 
#2,162
C.Linton said:
.... offiical confirmation from Fender's Customer Relations department that the inlays and binding are real. Case closed. I'd really like to know how this BS got started, and why it still persists.....
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Because this world is FILLED with ignorant morons that are smart enough to log on to a forum but not smart enough to accept the truth. As long as something makes them sound "just that much smarter than the next guy" many people will jump on the bandwagon. Even in the face of hard-core tangible holding-it-in-your-hand evidence.

Some folks will believe there are invisible wizards in the clouds that control every single move that every human being makes without any doubt or evidence to prove such things, yet a freshly painted bench with a sign that says "Wet Paint" staring them in the face will still prompt them to test it for themselves.

"The Emporer's New Clothes" ... a wonderful tale taught to most of us when we were young - yet most folks don't get the message from it, or simply refuse to apply the story's moral.

The anonymous know-it-alls that sit behind their computer screens are to be taken seriously! Dang it! :eyebrow: (Heheh ... ) A lowly Squier simply CANNOT have real binding or real inlays, after all, it's a crappy Squier ..... right? (shees! - some people's children, I'll tell ya what!)

I just live here, man .... it's quite a show if you just sit back and watch the circus of lunacy called Humanity.
 
#2,165
C.Linton said:
Congrats Flux! I think you'll be quite pleased, I know I am with mine. Enjoy!
I'm curious, though, A total of $330? How is that when they list for only $299? a $31 Sales tax?
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Well, I rounded it off, I actually owe like $127-sunthin sunthin. I think sales tax there in the city is like 8.75% er something. The bass was $299 there.

I could have bought it for $274.99 w/free shipping from Musician's Friend/Sweetwater/McMusic Bigshot Retail Place or whatever but I kinda wanted to support this new little local place (FRETWORKS!) a little bit. So in reality I ended up spending nearly $55.00 more for it after taxes and such. But I'm kinda hoping to develop a good relationship with FRETWORKS! over time.

I had a small business here in this city for fifteen years so I know what it's like to be new and starting out. In one word - Itsabitch. So I am just trying to do a little here and a little there with them.

But I gotta admit, when I actually saw what "nearly $55.00 more" looked like when I typed it there the pucker factor kicked in a bit!

Meh ... maybe it'll come back to me in some way someday. Y'never know.

I'm about to close a deal on some audio gear I'm selling and I'll be picking up a Line 6 HD500 to go along with the Line 6 M13 I recently picked up, maybe they'll do me a little better on that - I'll at least give them a shot at it. It's gonna be hard to beat some of the eBay retailers though, some of them are selling those HD500s for like $475 with a gig bag and free shipping ($499 street price without the bag).

So anyhow, there's the long answer. :hyper:
 
#2,166
Well, TBH, at the risk of coming off as a Squier fanboy, My feeling about my two Squier VMs is that they are worth a lot more than what I paid ($299 and $279), I enjoy them that much.
Good on you for wanting to support your locals, it might be worth it in the long run to pay a few extra bucks for such a good bass that I feel is a anomaly these days, an instrument that's actually underpriced!.
 
#2,169
After lurking for a while, I scored this yesterday for $229 shipped.

Number please.

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#2,170
Here's one more. It's a sweet Squier jazz I bought from our TB friend tjh (Tom) a while back and put Carvin J-style single coil pups on it, including one reverse wound in the bridge position. I have (too many) other basses, but this one is hard to beat.

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#2,171
What gets me about some of these Squiers are the seemingly unrelenting comments about how good they are. Not just from "first bass" teenagers, but from players that have owned (or own) many basses and have a personal comparitive foundation from which to compare these against.

It seems like the price gap between the "good" Fenders and the Squiers is getting wider, while the quality gap between them is getting narrower.
 
#2,172
1SHOT1HIT said:
Yeah I've notched, dating any of them is anything but an exact science.

But at the same time that's kinda what makes dating an old Fender and it's parts so interesting.
In that since there really does seem to be a method to the madness. At least amongst the Fender experts anyway, it definitely wasn't for any type of good order Fender ever followed that is for sure.
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Yup, I have tried to get production info for my old Squier basses, and besides a general time frame, pretty much nothing.
Quite different from my old Ibanez basses, where the serial gives you year and month of mfg.

wraub
 
#2,173
wraub said:
Yup, I have tried to get production info for my old Squier basses, and besides a general time frame, pretty much nothing.
Quite different from my old Ibanez basses, where the serial gives you year and month of mfg.

wraub
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Corts are the same way. In fact you can identify some Squiers that were made by Cort if you know the secret code. You have to be a member of the Secret Cort Club, and you have to have the Secret Decoder Ring too .. but you only get one of those if you send in six boxtops of Cort breakfast cereal with Magic Squier Marshmallow surpises.

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#2,174
Flux Jetson said:
What gets me about some of these Squiers are the seemingly unrelenting comments about how good they are. Not just from "first bass" teenagers, but from players that have owned (or own) many basses and have a personal comparitive foundation from which to compare these against.

It seems like the price gap between the "good" Fenders and the Squiers is getting wider, while the quality gap between them is getting narrower.
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This is very true. I have owned and played a lot of basses over the last 41 years and modern Squiers are Pro quality at Beginner price point. They also demonstrate that the nationality of the luthier or builder is not indicative of what to expect in quality or performance.

The only argument possible is the hardware components and if you are really critical, some of the body timber choices but either way, you get a lot more than you are paying for.
 
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#2,175
Aussie Player said:
This is very true. I have owned and played a lot of basses over the last 41 years and modern Squiers are Pro quality at Beginner price point. They also demonstrate that the nationality of the luthier or builder is not indicative of what to expect in quality or performance.

The only argument possible is the hardware components and if you are really critical, some of the body timber choices but either way, you get a lot more than you are paying for.
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The thing about hardware is that a lot of times it gets changed anyway.

I can't buy a finished neck without tuners and a finished body without anything else from anyone here in the USA (Warmoth, etc..) for no $300. It's more like $500. So even if all I kept from the Squier was the neck and the body and tossed everything else, I'm still financially ahead.

As to the builder's nationality - myself, I'm a citizen of Earth, so all of that flag waving stuff is of zero matter to me. (And just to dispell any "stigmata", I'm a US military vet w/6 years of service and a former police officer from Los Angeles late 80s/early 90s and survivor of the Rodney King riots. So all of those "known stigmas" just really do not fit in my case I guess. Call me a square circle I suppose). Anyhow, blablabla aside I couldn't give two cents worth of a dang where my instruments were made, or by whom - as long as the quality is there I'm in!

My amps are DIY Marshall kits that I got from a company that is in Malaysia - "Ceriatone" - Nik there is one of the most customer service oriented business owners that I have had the pleasure of doing business with. And the quality of the parts he sells is actually better than what Marshall put out. For 1/4th the cash. And they sound TEETS!

It really doesn't matter where something is made, what matters is the standards that it was built too. The standards are set by the OEM that hires various factories to build something for them. Stuff made in Indonesia isn't "crappy" because Indonesians are lousy builders, they build what they are commissioned to build at the design standards specified by the OEMs.

It costs less to manufacture a Vintage Modified Jazz in Overtheresia and even ship it all the way over here than it does to hire hometowners to build it --- we have our lifestyles to protect. This is a fact of life on Earth in 2012.

These are not slams, these are observations. Please don't mistake me for a malcontent or some kinda hater.
 
#2,179
Finally got the lay-away paid off and picked up my Squier Vintage Modified Jazz two days ago. Aside from needing the expected set-up work done, it's a great bass. Needing to do setup was fully expected. I've had to set up just about every stringed instrument I've ever bought.

Anyhow, I sure like it. :) Excellent value.

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Nice finish, the pickguard only looks this nice for about an hour after I take that plastic sheet off of it, then the pick-hash begins to happen to it over time. Oh well, that's why it's there!

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I've been told the serial number indicates it was made by Cort ...

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I weighed this Jazz, it came in at 9 pounds, 1 ounce on a US Postal Service digital scale.

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It's got one of those German neck-to-body fitups .. "Gudentight" ... that neck joint is really nicely done.

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And the black block inlays and side binding are 100% real. End of sentence.

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But I'm as certain as I can be that the stupid rumor about them being painted on will persist. After all, we are talking about human behavior here. :)

Happy as a clam, and it's exactly what I expected it to be.

This is my first Squier. Been playing bass since 1990 (been playing music since 1978 - I started late, I was 17. I'm 52 next month.) So for my 1st experience with a Squier I'd say that so far it's been a good one. And I'm glad I bought it.
 
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