More new Fender models - The 'Modern Player' Series

[willyf87]

[quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1317373731' post='1389935']

Why is offering more options pointless? Seems sensible to me.
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What I mean is why go to all the trouble of calling it something different why not make the black top range with choice of neck body shapes/woods etc.

[dave_bass5]

I get your point but with each new model offering various options as well i think it could get very confusing for the buyer.

[TransistorBassMan]

I don't care what they call it, a Jazz with twin humbuckers is what I want. I prefer Jazz necks to Precisions, which is why I never went for the Blacktop Precision.

Coda Music are advertising the Jag at £336.00, the Tele at £400.00 and the Jazz at £400.00.

[Lylodile]

Love the tele hate the jag. I prefer the old Japanese jaguars look wise (red with matching headstock...)

[hillbilly deluxe]

It cant be long until Fender release a 70's style Tele bass with Mud/P/J configuration,preferably in Magnolia with White p/g...............i'd buy one.

[danhkr]

At below £400, I can't see them being Mexican. The blacktop stuff is cheap, this is even cheaper and bordering on Squier VM/CV series prices. They're also bringing back the 'original' japanese made jaguar bass (around £800), so it'd be interesting to see how this one compares to that at half the price...

[Al Heeley]

I like the look of the tele headshtock on a bass, the pickups look all out of proportion though. The jag body looks too bloated, the dimensions ofend me and there's nowhere near enough fiddly slider switches for a jag, but I love the neck and block inlays. "Modern Player" ? The name is truly knobby

[Davout]

Have Fender got a load of spare parts left in the bin & decided to put them all together in a limited range to make a buck ??

Tony.

[merello]

How about this though?

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Edited October 1, 2011 by merello

[hillbilly deluxe]

White scratch plate,P and J pickups with the neck humbucker and we're talking.

[Mog]

The tele is £400 notes @ G4M. Sounds good to me.

[John Schoen]

The Squier VM Tele is a great bass, this Fender version would make it more versatile with the added bridge pickup. It also has four bridge saddles instead of the two of the Squier, this one might get a chance to take the place of my Squier.

[merello]

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1317494958' post='1391315'] Ah I've been looking a pic of that.!!! Whats the verdict of it with a rosewood board. I'm seriously thinking of picking one up (Even 2nd hand down the line) and doing a neck swap with my Dirnt. (Would maybe change the guard to white though. Edit if anyone wants to do a photo shop (Because my skills are severely lacking) If you overlay the Dirnt/50's style guard and telecaster style control plate how do they line up?[/quote]
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[merello]

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1317544089' post='1391588']
damn doesn't look like the routes will line up.

cheers for the shop.
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I'd love to say I left the remnants to show you they don't match - I just could not be bothered tidying up!

[Musicman20]

There is a Jazz with two humbuckers in the email from Soundslive.

[GarethFlatlands]

[quote name='Lylodile' timestamp='1317380153' post='1390057']
Love the tele hate the jag. I prefer the old Japanese jaguars look wise (red with matching headstock...)
[/quote]

Same here, the tele looks pretty good. Problem is, I'm pretty small and wear my bass high so most long, slim looking basses look daft on me.

[merello]

Updated:
Original:
[IMG]http://www.dawsons.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/fender-mod-play-tele-bass-new.jpg[/IMG]
'Dirnted!
[IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/merello/mod-tele-dirnted.jpg[/IMG]

Edited October 2, 2011 by merello

[alanbass1]

Not for me

[RussFM]

Turns out the reason they're 'cheap' compared to recent Fender prices is they're Made In China!

[hillbilly deluxe]

[quote name='RussFM' timestamp='1317634607' post='1392432']
Turns out the reason they're 'cheap' compared to recent Fender prices is they're Made In China!
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So they will be Fender custom shop quality.

[Musicman20]

MIC Fender's ay! Basically a Squier CV then, but more money.

[Delberthot]

So £273 for the single pickup squier and £399 for the Fender.

£126 for an extra pickup, pot and a Fender decal. Nah

If they'd put the Squier decal on it and said maybe £325 then that would seem fair enough.

A lot of made in China stuff is scarily good so I'm sure this will be a corker.


I wonder if this is Fender slowly removing the Squier range and replacing it with all Fenders since we already have the Cheapy nasty Fender Starcaster Jazz junk.

[Stu-khag]

With all these different bass variations here's to Fender re-releasing the Bass VI!

[krazy_olie]

It think Fender Fender's design team is a bloke with a few buckets containing bits of card that say things like "jazz pickups".

Fender do make some top notch basses, just a shame they can't be bothered to apply their skills to something genuinely new.

[dave_bass5]

[quote name='krazy_olie' timestamp='1317651305' post='1392705']
It think Fender Fender's design team is a bloke with a few buckets containing bits of card that say things like "jazz pickups".

Fender do make some top notch basses, just a shame they can't be bothered to apply their skills to something genuinely new.
[/quote]

Do we really need something genuinely new? Doesn't what we have available now do a good enough job?