When mere words fail...Fender Custom Shop

[jd56hawk]

https://bassmagazine.com/gear/fende...v5cpYvbUXJ7_0STa1wCmZ-aVX3S1MZdPanukK6x5Ck5G0
Sure, they look great, but...

 

[Gorn]

Twelve.

Thousand.

Dollar.

Pbass.

 

[bholder]

Both look ok.

At that price? HellzNO!

 

[FRoss6788]

Well I guess if you have the coin....

I love my Fender basses but 12 grand?

Pffft...hard pass.

 

[FRoss6788]

Hilarious how in the article they talk about where the wood comes from that was used for the body, the history of the tree...

Who the hell cares!?

Well, I guess it gives you a little back story to tell when it's hanging on your wall and you're bragging about it to your buddies.

 

[lowendblues]

Warmoth.

 

[Gorn]

Twelve thousand dollars is a perfectly reasonable price......for a low mileage 2017 Corolla.

 

[scuzzy]

I prefer the Jason Smith model to the $12k model. save a few grand at that. more tacos in my belly.

 

[cnltb]

I'll pass.

 

[TTPbass1]

$12k for a bass made from free wood??? No, thanks...

 

[J Wilson]

Well you know, Fender wants to be a lifestyle brand . . . . if I put the bass in the passenger seat of the 911 Carrera 4, nobody can go with me, so I suppose I'll have to trade it in on a Cayenne to get the bass, the amp, and the drummer to the gig.

Back in the real world, someone will buy these, treasure them, and lose their shirt if they ever go to move them out. It's a lifestyle, you know?

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Lordy. I'd rather have a Wal and some change.

 

[sleddogn]

good chance they're already sold, lol

 

[Element Zero]

“They look great” ???

Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[Snarf]

good chance they're already sold, lol

Yeah, Fender probably wouldn't have made them unless they knew they had guaranteed sales to collectors lined up. It was kind of a similar situation when they made ~50 $25,000 EVH replicas. Long, long ago I worked at the Boston Guitar Center, which had one of those on the wall. Guy calls in, he wants to buy it, but there's a catch . . . he wanted three of them. So the store sourced two more from other stores and got him his $75,000 guitar purchase.

 

[edencab]

$12,000 & $9,200 US? ($16,000 & $12,400 CD + 13% tax = $18,100 & $14, 000) for a scrap wood bass?

"...am I on Candid Camera?!"

 

[FRoss6788]

$12,000 & $9,200 US? ($16,000 & $12,400 CD + 13% tax = $18,100 & $14, 000) for a scrap wood bass?

Well, to be fair, that scrap wood has a story man...

 

[five7]

They be Trippin

 

[pbass2]

I can get California Streetwood for free just up from my house. Some old mattresses and a faux leather couch too. A little spritz with some disinfectant and I could build a bass and furnish an apartment for a lot less than $12k.

 

[gustobassman]

I'm waiting for the $16K Balsa wood version. Elegant simplicity.

This cedar stuff is way too "coffee table" for my liking.

Narrator: i'm out.. i need a drink, or three