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Fender Japan has Compstang bass reissues!!!
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:45 pm
by Billy3000
http://www.fenderjapan.co.jp/fender/200 ... ngbass.htm
Why won't fender bring the awesome fender japan stuff to us?!?!? I want this so bad!
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:47 pm
by SKC Willie
I bet they'll be on the bay soon from Japanese sellers. It will probably be like $100 to ship but if you think it's worth it won't be impossible to get.
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:51 pm
by Billy3000
Yea I wouldn't pay the cost of the shipping from japan for it... not quite worth that. But if they actually sold these in the us, and for the same price as the RI stang basses we have here now, I would definitely be tempted.
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:12 pm
by Ankhanu
Billy3000 wrote:Yea I wouldn't pay the cost of the shipping from japan for it... not quite worth that. But if they actually sold these in the us, and for the same price as the RI stang basses we have here now, I would definitely be tempted.
+1
Given that one of my bass "heroes" is a compstang player, I've been lusting after one for years and years
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:02 pm
by ultratwin
Not so hot about necessarily having comp stripes on a Mustang Bass, but the unintentional almost-matching-headstock on Tangerine is a nice bonus.
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:22 pm
by kim
a bit old news
was covered in an older thread already.
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:36 pm
by kim
’ムスタング’ search..or so
gives
http://www.ishibashi-webshop.jp/shop/goods/search.aspx
not a compstang fan, not even on a bass, but this one is nice nice
j mascis color strat there too and electric blue jazzy
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:24 am
by awfurby
How about this one?
Found at
Guitar Emporium
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:48 am
by robroe
billy i posted these things like 2 or 3 years ago dude
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:35 am
by Billy3000
shit really?! They've had them that long?!? This is the first I've seen of them I think!
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:52 am
by robroe
rodvonbon wrote:robroe wrote:
PISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
also this should go in the shortscale thread.
30" is short scaleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:00 am
by Billy3000
robroe wrote:rodvonbon wrote:robroe wrote:
PISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
also this should go in the shortscale thread.
30" is short scaleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
ahhhhhh.... what was I thinking?!? Stupid mistake... sorry everyone!
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:01 am
by robroe
FFSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:35 am
by Haze
why yes, please
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 2:03 pm
by Rox
Meh. Hate the comp stripes. I don't think Mustangs need them . Think Fender should focus on a more nicer bass bridge than stripes. Not saying the bass bridges suck or anything . More of a functional upgrade .
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:30 pm
by dots
i don't think a stang NEEDS stripes, but i think they look just fine.
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:11 pm
by rodvonbon
Before I read this thread I thought it was one that got dug up from a couple years ago. i've got 2 of these reissues, one in OTM and second in OCR.
Rox wrote:Meh. Hate the comp stripes. I don't think Mustangs need them . Think Fender should focus on a more nicer bass bridge than stripes. Not saying the bass bridges suck or anything . More of a functional upgrade .
It's a string through with individual height and intonation adjustments for each string, pretty functional to me. What more does it need?
Besides, it's a reissue. You don't reissue something, then make a bunch of changes to it.
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:38 pm
by Rox
rodvonbon wrote:Before I read this thread I thought it was one that got dug up from a couple years ago. i've got 2 of these reissues, one in OTM and second in OCR.
Rox wrote:Meh. Hate the comp stripes. I don't think Mustangs need them . Think Fender should focus on a more nicer bass bridge than stripes. Not saying the bass bridges suck or anything . More of a functional upgrade .
It's a string through with individual height and intonation adjustments for each string, pretty functional to me. What more does it need?
Besides, it's a reissue. You don't reissue something, then make a bunch of changes to it.
I was just thinking a heavier bridge with meatier saddles . I know it's a string-through. I own a reissue . I tend to think if you're gonna reissue you should throw in some little modern touches . But I know where you're coming from.
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:49 pm
by Phil O'Keefe
No offense to anyone with a contrary POV, but I just don't like basswood for guitar bodies - and the vast majority of the MIJ for the Japanese market 'stangs seem to use that as the body wood, while the stuff that IS available in the USA uses poplar or alder...
They may look cool, but as with the '69 RI, I would pass due to the body wood. YMMV.
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:47 am
by Mages
ask anyone who works with wood for a living, basswood is an almost identical wood to poplar. the only practical difference is poplar has a greenish color.