fender aerodyne FSR jazz

[rickychutney]

Just a quick question folks,what's the difference between the new Fsr edition aerodyne jazz bass which retail around £680 and the standard units which seem to be around £150 more.im getting tempted into buying one but want to make sure I get most bang for my buck. Cheers all

[theyellowcar]

I don't know for sure but if I were to speculate it might be that the FSR basses are made in Mexico as opposed to the standard Aerodyne which is made in Japan.

Just a thought.

[spike]

If you google aerodyne fsr all the music shop ads say it's made in Japan. The pictures look like it's the Japanese non-export version.

[rickychutney]

Ye they made in Japan but I thought maybe sum strip down version. May need to ask the folks who sell them

[rickychutney]

Come on chaps some one must know

[Shockwave]

The FSR version I find is much lighter. I have tried 3 of them, Pickups are a bit too polite. Only difference with the ones I played is the scratchplate addition.

[Lozz196]

Only real differences I can see are a scratchplate, dots on the neck, and a front facing jack rather than the strat style one.

[rickychutney]

That's interesting, so you think its lighter.it seems to be dimensionally the same.over all I think saving the 150 quid sounds a cert

[uncle psychosis]

Well, given that the FSR ones are (somewhat) limited edition and they're £150 cheaper they'd be my first choice if I was choosing between them.

With distance selling regs you can always return it if you don't like it anyway and then get a normal aerodyne which are fairly easy to find.

[Ed_S]

I've recently picked up one of the FSRs and, having done a couple of gigs with it at the end of last week and a rehearsal this evening, whilst I can't speak for the more expensive version, I really like this one. There are, however, a few issues I found that may be worth mentioning and a couple of mods that I felt were required to make it work for me...

I noticed when buying mine that the quality control maybe isn't all that great as they had one of each (white, blue, grey and red) in the shop, and the white was the only one that didn't have surface cracking coming away from the corners of the neck pocket. The skunk-stripe on the blue was very rough and standing slightly proud of the neck at the headstock end. The bridge on the red is slightly different (more high-mass looking) to the others, but the standard BBOT bridges have quite small barrel saddles which leave the height adjustment screws perfectly poised to rip chunks out of your hands.

I sorted the bridge out by swapping it for a Wilkinson with big brass saddles, but bear in mind that your options are somewhat limited if you don't fancy any DIY because it sits on a recessed platform routed into the top of the body. The intonation screws on the Wilkinson were too short, so I made a mash-up of the two bridges using the longer screws from the original. The metal knobs just weren't to my liking so they got swapped out for a normal Jazz set.

A few swaps and changes and a full setup with the right strings later, and it's a keeper!

[sunfish]

Think I read somewhere that the FSR Aerodyne body is smaller than the standard Aerodyne?