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Post subject: CIJ options on domestic jazzes
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 8:18 am
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Why is it that the CIJ and MIJ basses have such nice options and colors while the domestic basses don't? I'm talking specifically about the bound fingerboards, block position markers, bound bodies and especially the matching headstocks? These are all options that a lot of people say they want but oddly they are only available on a limited number of models here, and usually on the pricier ones. It makes no sense. If you can have a maple or rosewood fingerboard, why can't you also have a dot or block position marker option? I'm sure fender will say something to the effect of "We can't afford to do that because we'd have to double our inventory, blah, blah, blah." Well, Carvin and Lakland do it and somehow manage to stay in business.

I for one would love to be able to buy something like the CIJ model I saw that had a matching headstock, bound/block fingerboard, and bound/bookmatch body in a sunburst. That is a killer looking bass.


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Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:44 pm
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I think matching headstock color looks great on Fender basses. I wish Fender offered that option on more of their US models.

I even like matching paint on the back of the neck, like the 1980s Jazz Bass Specials.


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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:30 am
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The limited-edition 50th Anniversary Jazz Bass has a matching headstock. The neck has pearloid blocks on the rosewood fretboard, but no binding.


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