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Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 11th, 2012, 6:43 am
by Jeroen
Clicky-clicky!
Very pretty bass. But I'm sure you can get a brand new one at that price!
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 11th, 2012, 8:36 am
by LefThanDed
It's Black!
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 11th, 2012, 8:40 am
by Matt R.
Saw this one yesterday and almost posted it. Waaaay overpriced.
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 11th, 2012, 8:45 am
by pjmuck
I used to own an original '77 J that looked exactly like that one, including the rosewood fretboard. Sharp looking bass and sounded great, but it was over 11lbs! Sold it a few years ago:
https://picasaweb.google.com/pjmuck/197 ... zzBassSOLD
You can get a new one from Japan for about $1168 + $125 shipping + whatever 3rd party fee would be ($75?) = $1370 - $1400?):
http://shop.taniguchi-gakki.jp/products ... ct_id=1346
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 11th, 2012, 9:01 am
by markcv
Did anybody check out the over-the-top shielding and grounding that went into this bass?
http://www.greygarden.org/ShieldingAndS ... enWay.html
Seems worthy of some interest.
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 11th, 2012, 10:13 am
by Lefty007
Nice description and photos of the bass, but that's a $1000-bass on a good day.
Customs Shop Japan? Is there such a thing? I would guess there is a custom shop for Japanese artist and what-not, but this is just a top-of-the-line CIJ, not custom in any shape of form. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 11th, 2012, 12:06 pm
by LefThanDed
Lefty007 wrote:Nice description and photos of the bass, but that's a $1000-bass on a good day.
Customs Shop Japan? Is there such a thing? I would guess there is a custom shop for Japanese artist and what-not, but this is just a top-of-the-line CIJ, not custom in any shape of form. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none.
None more black.
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 11th, 2012, 12:22 pm
by belinmad
LefThanDed wrote:It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.
Well, he could always try to take the black
all the way up to eleven...
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 11th, 2012, 12:41 pm
by Matt R.
Pssh. If he thinks I'd pay that price, he can lick my love pump.
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 12th, 2012, 4:32 am
by gravesbass
If you look at the pics closely, the taniguchi bass appears to have the true 70's spacing and the one on ebay does not. I have never seen a MIJ CIJ with true 70's spacing.
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 12th, 2012, 9:53 am
by pjmuck
gravesbass wrote:
If you look at the pics closely, the taniguchi bass appears to have the true 70's spacing and the one on ebay does not. I have never seen a MIJ CIJ with true 70's spacing.
"Spacing" in terms of what?
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 12th, 2012, 10:18 am
by Matt R.
Spacing in terms of the bridge pickup being closer to the bridge on the 70s basses than on the 60s ones.
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 12th, 2012, 10:41 am
by pjmuck
Gotcha.
Re: Beautiful but expensive Fender MIJ '75 Jazz RI
Posted: January 13th, 2012, 9:55 am
by Jeroen
gravesbass wrote:
If you look at the pics closely, the taniguchi bass appears to have the true 70's spacing and the one on ebay does not. I have never seen a MIJ CIJ with true 70's spacing.
Hey, you're right! Neither have I, on a regular '75 RI. Cool!