Love the basses, another stupid Jazz variant, not sure how I feel about the Mustang, perhaps could have benefited from Jag trem, however I think that would make it too alien. I just don't think you can tinker with the original Mustang pickup config without making it look clumsy and ugly.
Fender, make me a black aerodyne-type Jaguar with binding and blocks all over the damn place and I will punch a little girl in the face for the opportunity to touch it.
Only guitar in this thread I'd play is the honeyburst mustang...providing it was fitted to a proper mustang guard and pickups.
That jazz bass looks good but those plates make playing difficult more than anything. Especially once you move the thumbrest to the correct side of the strings.
Fucking shit guys, would it KILL you to add the fucking binding?! You throw the blocks on da maple and you're 75% done man, fucking finish the fight dudes!
George wrote:fender are still ballsing everything up by not putting a jag tremolo on a mustang
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I find the string angle between the bridge and tailpiece of a Mustang is too short. The bridge on mine keeps tipping away from the trem, because that angle gives more sideways pressure and less downwards. The JM/Jag trem doesn't seem to suffer from the same issue.
BillClay wrote:Fucking shit guys, would it KILL you to add the fucking binding?! You throw the blocks on da maple and you're 75% done man, fucking finish the fight dudes!
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Block inlays without binding can fuck right on off. Fender blew it hard on that one.
Block inlays without binding can fuck right on off. Fender blew it hard on that one.
+ another 50,000,000,000.
Someone at the factory got the classic bulbous Fender headstock squeezed just right, resulting in all neck binding to ooze into completely unnecessary pickup rings.
Fender wrote:Dimension basses (2004-2007). A mid-2000s entrant in the “other� Fender bass arena was the Dimension IV Bass and its five-string version, the Dimension V Bass, both released in 2004. Like the concurrent Zone basses, the two Dimension models were designed as yet another more contemporary alternative to the omnipresent Precision and Jazz. The Dimension basses were player’s instruments in the $1,000 range, and while they certainly weren’t the first Fender basses to have two-octave necks, active circuitry, no pickguard and tuners on both sides of the headstock, they were unusual among Fender basses of any era in that they had tilt-back headstocks. As was the case with several previous “other� Fender basses with modern looks and features, the Dimension IV and V were solidly built, smooth-feeling, good sounding instruments that never really caught on. After three years, they were discontinued in 2007.
