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Why no Mexican Fender 60's Precision Bass?
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Smooth_bass88
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- Oct 31, 2006
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This has been my experience as well.
Great basses. Cured my Pbass gas.
Stellar basses. I've owned 7 different ones. They are very consistent .Consistently good!!
Just picked up one of the CV Squier basses to replace my old (sold) 68 put on a set of Dunlop flats and I'm ready to blues. My guess is between the CV and the US model Fender didn't see the need/market, I know the CV works for me that from someone who had my 68 for 25 years.
They should of made a 62 reissue Roadworn Pbass like the Jazz and called it the James Jamerson Tribute
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A Fender Road Worn 50's precision is made in Mexico and it is pretty much a copy of a 57 P. So maybe not "60's" specs but still pre-CBS style.
I have a sonic blue one from the original Chinese run that Squier did and mine is also a diamond in the rough. I got it off TB in their first year of production for $300. The previous owner tricked it out big time with a Seymour Duncan Antiquity II pickup, USA pots, orange drop cap and a Fender AVRI tortoise shell pickguard. In addition, he'd had the frets leveled & polished, sold it strung with a stellar set of Sadowsky flats and shipped it in a nice hard shell case. I ended up replacing the stock bridge with a Gotoh 201 because I didn't like the extra 1/8" overall string spread that the stock bridge gave it. I would put my totally tricked out Squier CV 60's P up there with most non-boutique Ps out there. However, it is heavily modified and I certainly did see some horrid ones on the racks when they first came out so I'd be hesitant to make any blanket statements about them.
I agree. I got very lucky as well. Mine is in like-new condition (because I baby it) and I have the super rare Fender Vintage 58 pickup in it which adds some stellar highs/high mids that I was in need of. Amongst my 4 basses I would actually keep this if given a choice of one. And I own a RW 60s Jazz and a Steinberger XL2.
Because you can slap a tort pickguard on a sunburst Player and bam.. MIM 60s reissue.
I own this amazing Custom Shop '59 Precision that I bought several months ago from a local store in Nashville.
The owner said that when he ordered it, Fender allowed him to choose a gold anodized pickguard as an option because 1959 was a transition period from the anodized to tort pickguards and, back then, they offered that as an option as well.
Glad he did because that gold against the Daphne blue made me fall in love with the bass.
Except for the neck profile, fretboard radius, fret size, tuners, pickups, pots, cap, and finish, sure.
It's a good question - there's been AVRI 57s and 58s, 62s and 63s, American Original 50s and 60s, Squier Classic Vibe 50s (single coil) and 60s, and Classic/Roadworn/Vintera 50s and no 60s. It isn't the Pau Ferro thing, as there'd have been a Classic 60s P in that case, as the Classic series was made before the CITES ban on rosewood. It isn't trying to push buyers up to the MIAs, or they wouldn't bother doing a 50s model, or the Classic Vibes. I also want to know the answer!
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I've said it before, if they came out with roadworn 60's P basses in the popular colours of the era I'd have my wallet out in a flash. Yes, I could theoretically put something together from stratosphere parts, but it's not economically sensible for me to order from the US.
