MORE new Fenders - Vintage Hot Rod P & J

[bh2]

Interesting... too radical for my tastes though.

Never been keen on the BA type bridge either.

[cocco]

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You could always try a Blacktop Jazz... and I quite like the idea of a J with a P pickup. Neck still too narrow, though!



Has anyone got a J body with a P neck..? I could go with that.
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Timmy C from RATM and audioslave had a cool bitsa jazz with a p neck.

[cocco]

I like them, but they don't look like £1600 basses in my opinion.

[discreet]

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I like them, but they don't look like £1600 basses in my opinion.
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Not for a mass-produced item, certainly.

[discreet]

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Timmy C from RATM and audioslave had a cool bitsa jazz with a p neck.
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I did not know that. I like the idea of Jazz basses, but don't get on with the necks. Hmm...

[Lozz196]

Love the looks of the 60s Hot Rod precision in natural but £1600 plus?

[dannybuoy]

Looks like they're priced just under the American Vintage range. Boring colours though - need to start a campaign to bring back transparent Sunset Orange! At least the inside of the case is orange!

Specs look very interesting:

[quote]The Vintage Hot Rod ’60s Precision Bass is a dual-pickup beauty that gives you the best P/J Fender bass tone, style and performance of both eras—authentically vintage-style design touches straight from the 1960s and hot-rodded modern mods ideal for today’s players.

Premium features include an ash body; maple neck with “C”-shaped profile, Posiflex™ graphite support rods, vintage-style heel-end truss rod adjustment and satin back finish; and a[color=#ff0000][b] compound-radius (7.25”-12”)[/b][/color] rosewood fingerboard with 20 medium jumbo frets, bone nut and aged white dot inlays. Richly versatile and powerful tone comes from its American Vintage ’63 split single-coil Precision Bass (middle) and ’64 Jazz Bass® single-coil (bridge) pickups.

Other features include a three-ply white pickguard (Black model) or three-ply black pickguard (Natural model), three knurled chrome control knobs (volume 1, volume 2, master tone), Fender Hi-Mass bridge, side-mounted oval output jack, vintage-style tuners with tapered shafts, Stealth “A” string retainer on headstock, locking strap buttons, and engraved Vintage Hot Rod neck plate with crossed checkered flags emblem. Available in Black and Natural gloss finishes. Includes vintage-style blonde case with orange interior, chrome pickup cover, 8’ cable, thumb rest and vintage-style leather strap.[/quote]

Compound radius eh? That's not something you see every day. Would that be flatter by the nut or up at the dusty end?

Edited October 9, 2013 by dannybuoy

[franzbassist]

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Compound radius eh? That's not something you see every day. Would that be flatter by the nut or up at the dusty end?
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Dusty end I hope!