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Check it out...

http://www.elderly.com/vintage/items/56U-188.htm

If I didn't already have one, I'd get one...

I used to own one japanese fender (CIJ, 1999), that's wasn't really my cup of tea, the sound wasn't very impressive. Maybe that one is better.

I had one too and I did not like it either. At first I thought it was just the pickups that really lacked definition but after I replaced them several times I came to the following conclusion. The Basswood body did not have either the punchy and textured mids of an Alder body nor the nice low-end and focused high-mids of an Ash body. I felt that the sound was hollow with no personality and no punch.

The recent MIM Jazz made of Alder are actually better sounding

Interesting, the negative responses about these basses.

Come to think of it, mine does have Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders in it (there for a while I used to put these in all my basses as a matter of course). This may account for my not noticing the tonal deficiencies you guys mentioned, but I have just always loved the way this bass plays. The neck is great. It seems to have a bit thinner profile than other Jazz necks I've played & it's nice and lightweight, too!

Especially considering how relatively inexpensive they are, I think it's a great deal...

My two cents...

Well, not sure this is a good deal. Here in France, with a bit of patience, you can find cheaper US fender guitar basses in the second hand market, for nearly the same price as this Japonese model (600€).

But well, the bass you like IS a good bass, cause you know how to play it well !



[what does my two cents mean ?]

"My two cents" means my opinion.

It's a version of a saying "Put my two cents in" meaning to state one's opinion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents_(idiom)