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What's on a par with an American Fender Jazz


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A Mexican Fender jazz & new pickups?

On a more serious note second hand USA Fenders seem to go for between £500-£800 in the marketplace here and there's a load of highly respected pre owned stuff in that bracket from Lakland & G&L to Music Man & Maruswotsit.

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Par, most jazz bass types built in the far east. Logo on the headstock goes an awful long way with Fender, unfortunately.

Buy a Squire Classic Vibe for a fraction of the price. 9/10, it is more than comparable, and you can probably buy 3 for the cost of a US Standard. Crazy, really.

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In purely financial terms, yes - both cost about the same (i.e. about £1300 new). But in terms of build quality they are not on a par at all - the TT leaves the Am Standard in the dust. And the TT will be infinitely customisable - any colour combination you like, blocks, dots or plain fretboard, your choice of fingerboard wood, matched headstock if you want, etc etc etc ...

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I had two 5 string Fenders 3 or 4 years ago. One was a Marcus Miller the other an American standard. Both had neck pockets that weren't cup properly. They were too wide and cut funny.

Both had string through body option, and had little cup things in the body holes that fell out when you took the strings out.

The US standard just felt cheap. The Marcus Miller was nicer but not worth the money that it originally cost.

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