Fender Classic Player Rascal Bass

[M-Bass-M]

Noticed this in my Twitter feed the other day:

There's something about it which makes me intrigued...I guess I'd love to know how it plays as a short scale, and what sort of sounds you can get out of that pickup configuration. My GAS has certainly increased slightly!

[ikay]

Demo here - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=molxHHbKqbA"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=molxHHbKqbA[/url]

[ras52]

Darn. Short-scale GAS is building up...

[M-Bass-M]

Huh, even more versatile than I first imagined! Really curious to try a short-scale bass now.

Wonder how it would look with a slightly smaller headstock...looks a bit out of scale with the body.

[planer]

That's jolly tasty. Love the pg :-)

[JapanAxe]

That's a somewhat non-standard bridge!

[madshadows]

Nice looking bass

John

[Funk³]

I'd love to try out one of the ones from the original Fender CS run, before they started making them in the Classic Player line on a production scale. Even this particular model sounds fantastic!

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1438257339' post='2832957']
That's a somewhat non-standard bridge!
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Guild harp bridge in style at least.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='M-Bass-M' timestamp='1438257063' post='2832950']
Huh, even more versatile than I first imagined! Really curious to try a short-scale bass now.

Wonder how it would look with a slightly smaller headstock...looks a bit out of scale with the body.
[/quote]
The headstock looks like a Coronado headstock, which is also a 30" scale, so maybe they are using the same neck.

[M-Bass-M]

Yeah, I think they mentioned that on the Premier Guitar review, how they've taken bits from all sorts of different bases (and guitars for the PuPs!).

[alyctes]

Nice to see a good-looking Fender for a change
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[PlungerModerno]

[quote name='M-Bass-M' timestamp='1438257063' post='2832950'] . . . Wonder how it would look with a slightly smaller headstock...looks a bit out of scale with the body. [/quote]

+1 it looks good - but with a Bass VI style headstock I think it'd be even nicer:

Like this one (but matched to the body paint of course): [url="http://shop.guitarpoint.de/de/Fender/1963-Fender-Bass-VI-Olympic-White"]http://shop.guitarpoint.de/de/Fender/1963-Fender-Bass-VI-Olympic-White[/url]

[Grassie]

Oh my. I NEED one of these. 😁

[ras52]

I can see it fitting in very nicely as a sofa-side noodling machine. But is it overpriced for a MIM?

Edited August 3, 2015 by ras52

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='PlungerModerno' timestamp='1438492146' post='2834846']

+1 it looks good - but with a Bass VI style headstock I think it'd be even nicer ...

[/quote]
Yes, Bass VI body already.

[CamdenRob]

This has popped up somewhere before... I seem to remember it was staggeringly expensive?

Looks good though.

[EssentialTension]

£691 at GAK.

Is that staggering?

[CamdenRob]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1438605684' post='2835701']
£691 at GAK.

Is that staggering?
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I must be thinking of a different one

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1438605750' post='2835703']


I must be thinking of a different one
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Maybe the custom shop version.

[CamdenRob]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1438606186' post='2835706']
Maybe the custom shop version.
[/quote]

That might be the one yes... I just remember that picture from a thread a year or so back and at some point the price coming out and it being in the multiple thousands

I also remember quite liking the look of it then... as I do now

[EssentialTension]

I might have to go to try one out in local shop.

[EssentialTension]

The pickups are Seymour Duncan lipstick tubes for Stratocasters.

[dannybuoy]

Very tempted! Some great sounds in there, particularly bridge + middle and bridge + neck. Would love to whack a set of flats on one of these!

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Looks like a classic Fender parts bin special, and the name is ridiculous, but it sounds damn good!