Very Odd MM Jazz

[Macko1968]

Red, no Badass & a 4 bolt neck, wtf?

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-JAZZ-Marcus-MillerActive-Bass-/120648935912?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c173ca9e8#ht_500wt_1156"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-JAZZ-Marcus-M...8#ht_500wt_1156[/url]

Edited November 18, 2010 by Macko1968

[LawrenceH]

[quote name='Macko1968' post='1027573' date='Nov 18 2010, 08:07 AM']Red, no Badass & a 4 bolt neck, wtf?

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-JAZZ-Marcus-MillerActive-Bass-/120648935912?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c173ca9e8#ht_500wt_1156"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-JAZZ-Marcus-M...8#ht_500wt_1156[/url][/quote]

That looks like a fake - there's no binding on the neck and the 'inlays' look suspiciously like stickers to me. Don't know how the signature ended up on that but it's not a MM neck!

[warwickhunt]

Listing pulled!

[Bassassin]

Got a look at it before the listing was pulled - definitely very shonky. Not certain, but didn't it say "Marcus Miller [b]style[/b]"?

Wonder if it was one of these with a dodgy sticker:

[url="http://www.bachmusik.com/en/music-instruments/bass-guitars/model-bach-bjb-s"]http://www.bachmusik.com/en/music-instrume...odel-bach-bjb-s[/url]

Jon.

[LawrenceH]

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1028407' date='Nov 18 2010, 08:48 PM']Got a look at it before the listing was pulled - definitely very shonky. Not certain, but didn't it say "Marcus Miller [b]style[/b]"?

Wonder if it was one of these with a dodgy sticker:

[url="http://www.bachmusik.com/en/music-instruments/bass-guitars/model-bach-bjb-s"]http://www.bachmusik.com/en/music-instrume...odel-bach-bjb-s[/url]

Jon.[/quote]

It did say 'style' but had a signature on the headstock and no indication that it was a homebrew so was clearly someone on the make. Wasn't one of those Bach basses as the inlays look genuinely inlaid on those, and they're bound necks (also do they even do a red one?), but that's a pretty cool find!

[LawrenceH]

And it's back! But for how long? Now it's a 'Fender Jazz 'Marcus Miller' Custom built'.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120649310703"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=120649310703[/url]

That's surely just a flagrant a breach as before? It's no Fender custom shop job and it doesn't say 'copy' anywhere. Blatantly misleading.

[warwickhunt]

Is it the correct headstock (ie neck) but with a refinished body?

Just looks to me (not that I've seen that many MM Jazz basses) that the headstock decals and MM sig look about right!

[LawrenceH]

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='1029556' date='Nov 19 2010, 04:27 PM']Is it the correct headstock (ie neck) but with a refinished body?

Just looks to me (not that I've seen that many MM Jazz basses) that the headstock decals and MM sig look about right![/quote]

No because the neck on a MM jazz is bound! Also I'd put money on those inlays being stickers. They just don't look quite right.

[warwickhunt]

[quote name='LawrenceH' post='1029590' date='Nov 19 2010, 04:44 PM']No because the neck on a MM jazz is bound! Also I'd put money on those inlays being stickers. They just don't look quite right.[/quote]

Yep, gotcha! It just looks a semi-convincing headstock but agreed that the inlays look a bit 'flat' and no binding!

[Floyd Pepper]

Just had a good look at this and I agree re: the binding, inlays, four bolt neck,etc
Also, the decals don't look quite right compared with my current and my old MM Jazz. Both have the serial number underneath the Fender logo and 'Made in Japan' beneath the Jazz Bass logo.

Shame because I actually think it looks quite nice in red!

Cheers,
Jim

[AndyTravis]

Somewhere very close to me 'M27'.

It's all kinds of wrong, may go just to poke fun.

[tom1946]

Sent him this:

Hi, are you saying that this is a Marcus Miller as it says in the title? Or, is it a copy? Does the 'custom' bit refer to the colour? Is there no badass bridge? Thanks.

Just thought I'd see what he says.

[tom1946]

Had a reply, hmm bit dishonest that advert.

"Hi bought off a bass player on isle of wight festival,mostly mexican,with miller wiring/pickups/scratchplates etc.Looks,sounds and plays like a miller,dosent have the badass11 bride,but a heavy topstrung japanesse unit.Absolute jem for £300."
cheers
colin

[zero9]

It may be 'mostly Mexican', but certainly not 'mostly Fender'...

The neck's completely wrong, definitely non-Fender (seems too wide near the head to be a Jazz). I do like the elastic band / bit of string around the nut (presumably to stop the strings from popping out).