interested in Fender reverse jaguar bass

[Guinness21]

Does anybody own one of these? I think the candy red bass looks stunning! What's the access to the upper frets like? I currently play a stingray, and the pickups look similar - does anyone know what the pickups are? Thanks

[neepheid]

I tried one in a shop once and I was unimpressed. Access to upper frets is poor - no contouring to speak of in the cutaway - you slide up and basically hit a wall. Pickups are pretty generic and I thought quite weedy sounding for the size/style of them. Not that it bothers me, but if you're a blender then there's no capacity for blending the pickups, 3 way switch and master vol/tone only.

To sum it up, all they've done is ruin a perfectly good left handed bass as far as I can see.

[Guinness21]

Aah, maybe this bass isn't as good as I hoped it would be. I'm not sure that limited upper fret access would be too much of an issue for me - big hands and long fingers. The lack of blend doesn't bother me either. But I was hoping the feedback would say the pickups were great; the fact that they aren't has put me off this bass a bit.

[Guinness21]

Nobody else have any experience of these basses?