...A 5-string P-J from Mexico. First off, Fender doesn't make a P-J 5, and they should. Second, The Squier P-5 doesn't get it done. Third, the American P-5 isn't a P-J, and is more expensive that I want to spend.
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So you want an inexpensive mass-produced custom instrument?
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Fender should stop duplicating that stupid truss rod adjustment design where you need to take the neck off, does not matter if is period correct, it is something that should have never existed.
So... Squier, basically?
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
No. Cut out all the special editions and low selling models (same way car companies streamline) - bring quality up and price down on all levels of their instruments - from Squier to MIA.
Agreed. Taking the neck off to adjust the truss rod on a MIA Fender is a drag. Thankfully for me my MIA Fender has so far not needed lots of truss rod adjustments.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
I've not had to take off the neck - at most, I remove the pickguard.
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I wish Fender would make a Rickenbacker, Bongo, and/or Stingray like bass. Then their sales would start going through the roof!!!
Short scale P Bass
I have a SS Fender Jazz, but they have gone the way of the dodo
BP.
I have a SS Fender Jazz, but they have gone the way of the dodo
BP.
I'm still lobbying for a non-Squier P-J 5 string. It could even be a jazz with a P in the neck position, as long as it's in the right place! I rather like the Mexi-P's and Mexi Deluxe Jazz's. The parts are right there, fer chrissakes.
A jazz bass with a precision pickup. Is that too much to ask?
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Personally I think a 5 string PJ is easy to make from fender style parts. You get to decide colors and harware.
What I meant was that's pretty much what Squier does - concentrates on mass-producing a narrower range of models at lower prices. TB has already had this conversation, but to rehash it, I don't buy the idea that the variety of Fender's models has anything to do with either their quality or their price, because they're largely mix-and-match from a pretty standard pool of existing components. The folks on the assembly line are still doing pretty much the same jobs, just that on Wednesday you're putting the regular single-coils in those Jazz bodies and Thursday you'll be putting noiseless in. The hardware guys are putting Schaller bridges in on Mondays and BAII's on Tuesdays. Not that big of a difference, and not much impact on quality or cost of production. Quality control guys still have the same checklist to run through in their inspections. It's not like the car companies, where keeping a low-selling model in production means stocking an inventory of components that you can't use in any other cars. I suspect that cutting models would just send more people like the OP who don't see the EXACT set of features they want in a production model off to look at G&L or Carvin or whomever.
What I find ironic about these threads, which we seem to get on a monthly basis or so, is that they ALWAYS involve a price component. The person basically wants a custom bass for their individual preferences, but at mass-produced prices. He could easily get what he wants from Carvin for $1000 or so, but he wants Fender to do it for $600.
