Fender Artisan Postmodern Bass

[thebassist]

Sorry if this has been posted before - I did a search and couldn't find anything...

Anyway - thoughts on it?

http://www.fendercustomshop.com/series/artisan/artisan-postmodern-bass/

[dannybuoy]

Nice, but wouldn't pay £3k for one!

http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Fender-Custom-Shop-Artisan-Postmodern-Bass/1H22

[Schnozzalee]

Lol the pricing nowadays...

[Westenra]

When I saw the thread title I thought this was going to be a joke regarding the American Standard line being discontinued, boy was I wrong!

[Roland Rock]

I was expecting something a bit more artisan and postmodern. Worse than being 'marmite' that bass is just plain dull

[markstuk]

looks like someone stole my grannies sideboard and made a bass from the top..

minimalist or just dull? I can't decide...

[stingrayPete1977]

Dull

[EliasMooseblaster]

I call plagiarism - it looks suspiciously like my Frankenbass with an extra pickup (below centre)!
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Edited September 27, 2016 by EliasMooseblaster

[ras52]

I like it!

[BigBassBob]

All those modern touches and no easy truss rod access....

[Cosmo Valdemar]

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minimalist or just dull? I can't decide...
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I'd go for for 'dull'.

[AndyTravis]

Looks like a Marlin sidewinder with the paint sanded off

[Cato]

Considering what 3k can get you bass wise, Fender do seem to be taking the pee with some of their custom shop pricing.

[thebassist]

From the website.

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"The 2016 Artisan Postmodern Bass is a thoroughly contemporary combination of Fender’s two most time-honored basses. Its roasted ash Precision Bass body features a gorgeous Tasmanian blackwood top and lacquer finish, paired with tinted quarter sawn AA flame maple Jazz Bass neck with a 1960 Jazz “U”-shaped profile and compound-radius (9.5”-16”) round-laminated rosewood fingerboard. Other premium features include hand wound 1962 Precision Bass® (middle) and Jazz Bass (bridge) pickups, rear-load controls and 1960 Jazz Bass wiring, medium jumbo frets and bone nut, A-string Stealth string retainer, RSD bass bridge, Custom Shop certificate of authenticity and black case." Source: http://www.fendercustomshop.com/series/artisan/artisan-postmodern-bass/

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I'm not sure you could particularly refer to this as "contemporary"? [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I don't dislike it but £3149 is just so overpriced in my opinion. I actually can't believe that pricing.[/font][/color]

[Low End Bee]

it'll look nice when they paint it.

[stingrayPete1977]

How can it be contemporary when it looks 80's?

Looks like one of those self build kits for around £80 to me.

[wateroftyne]

LOL @ Fender.

Typical, though - the 6-strings at least get interesting tops, while the bass gets lumbered with the offcuts from your nan's sideboard.

[thebassist]

Personally, I'd like to see Fender continuing with their bread and butter traditional basses while experimenting a little more with other stuff - like what they did with the Steve Bailey 6-string Jazz.

[karlfer]

[quote name='thebassist' timestamp='1474977105' post='3141947']
From the website.

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"The 2016 Artisan Postmodern Bass is a thoroughly contemporary combination of Fender’s two most time-honored basses. Its roasted ash Precision Bass body features a gorgeous Tasmanian blackwood top and lacquer finish, paired with tinted quarter sawn AA flame maple Jazz Bass neck with a 1960 Jazz “U”-shaped profile and compound-radius (9.5”-16”) round-laminated rosewood fingerboard. Other premium features include hand wound 1962 Precision Bass® (middle) and Jazz Bass (bridge) pickups, rear-load controls and 1960 Jazz Bass wiring, medium jumbo frets and bone nut, A-string Stealth string retainer, RSD bass bridge, Custom Shop certificate of authenticity and black case." Source: [url="http://www.fendercustomshop.com/series/artisan/artisan-postmodern-bass/"]http://www.fendercus...ostmodern-bass/[/url]

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I'm not sure you could particularly refer to this as "contemporary"? [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I don't dislike it but £3149 is just so overpriced in my opinion. I actually can't believe that pricing.[/font][/color]
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I thought I was reading one of those poncey menus, reminded me ofThe Gosforth Park and Brown Ale Sorbet

[ZilchWoolham]

I think it's quite elegant in a way but it does seem strange that they would make the body out of figured ash and then top it off with a wood that looks just like mahogany. It's certainly no more boring than a solid colour, though. The price, however, is a joke, obviously.

[visog]

How much!? Presumably that's the Custom Shop difference. Let's hope the QC is better than the regular production!

[wateroftyne]

That J pup is far too close to the bridge, too. It'll be a weak as owt.

[HowieBass]

The back looks better than the front, in fact had they used roasted ash for the whole body and a maple fingerboard it might start to look interesting.

[machinehead]

At that price, it's only for the terminally gullible. In my opinion of course.

Frank.

[therealting]

Wonder how many they'll sell.