Weirdest Fender ever?

[Ben Jamin]

Looks like Fender CS are doing a limited run of an Adrian Younge signature bass, which has got to be one of the quirkiest designs I've seen for a while! 

 

Seems like it would be a bunch of fun to play, and clearly works for Adrian! But definitely a niche instrument!

 

Jazz body with 50% fretted, 50% fretless jazz neck

Precision middle pick-up

Curtis Novak bisonic neck pick-up

Built-in fuzz and tremolo effects

 

https://www.fendercustomshop.com/basses/jazz-bass/limited-edition-masterbuilt-adrian-younge-jazz-bass/

 

[uncle psychosis]

Well thats bonkers. 

 

I wouldn't buy one, but I always do enjoy when a signature instrument is a genuine "built for this one person" effort so I can appreciate it. 

[Eldon Tyrell]

Price - $14,500

[Happy Jack]

36 minutes ago, Eldon Tyrell said:

Price - $14,500

 

I'll take three please, and can you gift-wrap two of them for me?

[Eldon Tyrell]

5 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

 

I'll take three please, and can you gift-wrap two of them for me?

sure and do you want fries with that?

[mxm]

Same pick up as in the equally weird Fender Abuelo ?

[Cato]

I like that a lot.

 

I wonder if they might do a limited lower specced MiM or USA production run if this generates enough interest.

[Happy Jack]

Yup, bringing the price down to $12,500 would be a game-changer.

[Newfoundfreedom]

Who?

[MichaelDean]

I love the look of these. I'd want all of the frets though please. 

[simonlittle]

I’d love to know how many of these they end up actually selling. 

[wateroftyne]

I would like to buy them all, and smash them into tiny pieces.

 

[basshead56]

Fender Marketing dept. pitch meeting, Corona:

 

"So, any revolutionary new ibass deas guys? We are being called lazy online due to a lack of anything other than re-hashing our two core models for the last 65 odd years."

 

"Have we done an active PJ this year?'

"We have?!" "Oh, ok."

 

"How about something, something Vintage?" "Oh ok."

 

"Hmm, too early for another Ultra..."

 

"How about some signature Jazzes BUT they are for indie female players?!"

"Oh, we've done that too... ok...'

 

"Ok no wrong answers here, anything goes, let's go!!!"

 

Crickets

 

One guy: "How about a bass that can only be used for scoring a Tarantino soundtrack and not much else?"

 

"Go on..."

 

"Right, a Jazz, probably. But it's a...

 

"Stick a P pickup in there"

 

"Ok, a Jazz with a P pickup, but also let's make it godless heinous and semi-fretless"

 

"Ok guys we're on fire here, what else?"

 

"Give it a weird paint job, a semi-expensive neck bucket and wonky effects, slap a Custom Shop logo on it and charge $15k for it..."

 

... ... * Single senior executive clapping slowly, before entire board room joins in one by one leading to a standing ovation! *

 

"We'll bring out a MIM or Jap version, followed by a Squier Paranormal line in 6 months and charge $2k" (then discontinue it in 18 months)

 

"We've sorted the company's earning for the next two years guys, well done!"