Interesting Fender Timeline

[D-Shap]

Just found this on the net, some i know lots I didn't https://www.soundunlimited.co.uk/articles/fender_timeline

[discreet]

Amazing how he came up with the Strat, just like that, fully-formed and apparently out of nowhere!

Edited June 9, 2016 by discreet

[KevB]

I'd forgotten that the P bass actually predates the strat a bit, thought they came out about same time. Not much of an instrument historian

[Happy Jack]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1465465405' post='3068421']
Amazing how he came up with the Strat, just like that, fully-formed and apparently out of nowhere!
[/quote]

???

I always thought the Strat was the bastard love-child of a Precision and a Telecaster ...

[lojo]

I love this line ...

[color=#444444]Leo needed an amp to run it through though, so he built the Bassman amp.[/color]

[Hobbayne]

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1465493088' post='3068775']
I love this line ...

[color=#444444]Leo needed an amp to run it through though, so he built the Bassman amp.[/color]
[/quote]

He also needed strings for his new 'bass' instrument.


[u][i]One of the most important features of the Precision Bass was its scale length, which Leo Fender, after careful consideration and lengthy experimentation, set at 34”. Fender also contracted one of the nation’s largest string manufacturers, the V.C. Squier Company of Battle Creek, Mich., to make strings for the new instrument (these were flat-wound; the brighter-sounding round-wound bass strings prevalent today were still well more than a decade away).[/i][/u]

[url="http://www2.fender.com/experience/guitarchive/the-precision-bass-in-the-1950s/"]http://www2.fender.c...s-in-the-1950s/[/url]

Edited June 9, 2016 by Hobbayne