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Post subject: Re: What's Your Fender history?
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:04 pm
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Quite interesting story, over such a short period.

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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 2:16 pm
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First Fender I ever had was the second bass I ever bought (the first being a Peavey Fury bass.) It was a 1977 Jazz Bass (originally, I thought and told it was a '71, but I realized it's a '77 because of the features on it) that was natural finish with black pickguard and all of the covers and thumb rest. I remember I paid $450 for it in 1989 and I had it for a few years before trading it.

The second Fender was a US Jazz that was a '94 that I paid $500 for, but wound up getting rid of because I just didn't like it in the end. That one was a sunburst.

The third one was the best one I ever owned, but foolishly got rid of because of some stupid impulse. That was a '94 Japanese 50's reissue P-Bass that I bought new for probably around $500, maybe $475. I doubt it was more, since I didn't make a lot of money and had to put things on layaway in music stores. That one was white with a gold pickguard and sweet action with no need of any setup.

The next one is a MIM P-Bass Standard that I got in 2007 that started my love/hate relationship with Fender. I ordered it online and it had sharp fret ends and I had to get that fixed, but wound up just getting rid of it and swearing off the brand for a few years until I got the Rumble 350 amp.

The next Fender I got was actually a Squier that is a Telecaster Custom and it wound up being a nice guitar that I still have and needed no work done to it. After that was a Squier Jazz Bass that I still have, but needed some work done to it, which I did myself. File fret ends down, lower the action and I put on a Bad $@! II bridge on it. It's a nice player, but I noticed it's pickups are kind of weak in comparison to my other basses. I usually keep it in my office so I have something to jam on when I feel like it and not rehearsing.

I also have a Japanese Fender P-Bass Lyte, which is a '94, but it's my girlfriend's and she bought it new. I used it extensively for 10 years because I didn't even have a bass when I moved to RI and it wasn't until a few years later until we could afford to acquire any gear. That one is a workhorse and served us well, but the poor thing needs some repair, since it has a short in it.

That's it for Fender, other than a few amps like the Rumble and I had a BXR300C combo amp and started out with a Fender Sidekick 30 amp. We also have had two Passport PAs.

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Post subject: Re: What's Your Fender history?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:37 am
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Two recent additions:

A Fender Rumble 150 bass amp for the Armadillo Teen, since she has started playing bass recently. It's been fun having a bass amp in the house again--I enjoy playing bass a lot more than I did in the past.

A sunburst Fender Modern Player Telecaster Thinline Deluxe, which I have already customized (just some cosmetic things)...she's a sweet little machine!

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Post subject: Re: What's Your Fender history?
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:31 am
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First electric was a Mustang (through an Ampeg Jet) back in 1967. By 1968, I'd switched to a LP but played through a Bassman 50 head and 2 X 12 cab. That's pretty much what I used for the next 10 years until I got another Mustang, this one bought for a woman I was dating. We ended up getting married and two years later (10 years after high school) I entered corporate life. I sold the LP and most of my gear but kept the Mustang. I still have it to this day. I decided to play again around 1986 so I got a Champ and still have that. That didn't last long - promotion and more responsibilities = guitar back in closet for another decade.

Then around 2000 I was visiting an old friend who's dad owned the music shop I always went to back in playing days. She was running it then and sitting there was a Highway 1 Tele at an "old stock" price. On pure whim, I bought it and then later on that trip a Fender Super 210. It's been all downhill ever since. My Fender history since then is quite a few bought, a few modified and most eventually sold. Still I have a modest little Tele collection (that I should take a picture of some day) along with 3 Strats.

The extended Fender family includes a Gretsch hollow body bass and a Country Classic II 6 string. I also have a Bassman 150 head and 2 X 15 cab (holds the house down in case of quakes), an SCXD and a Mustang I. The only area where I'm not True Blue Fender is with semi-hollow bodies.


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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 12:45 am
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A gifted 2012 American Deluxe Stratocaster, a 2012 Fender Mustang IV V1 with no fizz, and a great wife. Mrs. FSB presented them to me on my 65th. It was a surprise for me and for her. Up until that day, she had never heard the few things that I knew how to play on electric (my having had a 12 string acoustic). Thankfully for me, she appreciated her investment. :wink:
As some have read elsewhere, in the 60s a beautiful Daphne Blue '62 Strat with a Bandmaster amp belonging to a school friend was placed in my hands to learn some songs or versions of (Pipeline, Walk Don't Run, Windy and Warm, (I'm Not) Your Steppin' Stone, Gloria, What'd I Say, Kansas City, Night Train, Rumble, and such)(I played not the greatest, but okay for a drummer), and the 60s Strat sound stayed with me. My taste in music has expanded since then; although, I still play a version of Underwater by the Frogmen, I lean towards Experimental, Surf, and Blues/R&B, and . . . :lol:
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 4:15 pm
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59 Jazzmaster. Originally a Anodized guard model. You can tell by the routes still intact. The original guard, pickups and wiring were not there, and a bad route job for humbuckers. Also of course repainted. Neck very nice and not badly worn just some honest wear. Tuners and string tree original. Tremolo assembly Pat Pending. and bridge neck plate and screws all original as most of the pickguard screws and tremolo plate screws look right with the odd one different. So step 1 Improve the paint and fix some of the routing so Jazzmaster pickups, guard and wiring kit all go back on. Final result is pretty good but a good US nitro new body someday in sunburst would be nice. The pickups I had access to for a mickey rye and 8 pack beer were brand new J Mascis Squier pickups. Actually a P90 design. From the Squier J Masicis Jazzmaster of course. I actually like P90s anyway so for now I'm happy. I'm sure someday I'll buy a Jazzmaster guard loaded with USA pickups or something from someone.

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Post subject: Re: What's Your Fender history?
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 8:12 pm
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Good to see this thread picked back up again and thanks for adding your story.


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Post subject: Re: What's Your Fender history?
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 1:46 pm
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My Fender experience began about 1972, joined a band while in High School. I didn't own a guitar amp at the time and the drummer loaned me a 5E3 Deluxe that someone had painted black. I used it for a couple years and then my neighbor offered his '65 Bassman set for sale and I snagged it for $150, head and cab. Used it for a couple years, graduated HS and the band split so I sold the Bassman for $125 :roll:
My musical endeavors stopped for a long time after that.
It was another 28 years before my next Fender experience. I got my first brand G guitar and offered to teach my daughter to play. She wanted to learn to play bass instead of guitar so I got a Hwy 1 Jazz bass for her, and a Blues Jr for me (she never tried once to play the bass, btw). A few years and a divorce later I was getting back into the local music scene. I felt the need for a Telecaster, and acquired an Am Std Tele. Then I needed a Strat, so I looked and looked for a Crimson Transparent Hwy 1 Strat to match the Jazz bass but didn't find one, so I got a Hwy One Strat in Wine color. Of course the Crimson one became available shortly after so I sold the Hwy-One and bought the Hwy-1. It shipped from Colorado to me in Illinois in a Fender gig bag with the UPS label stuck on it, no box. And no damage. Shortly after that I joined a band, playing bass. After a couple years I got a Hwy One Precision bass, which is still my number 1. A couple years later when the American Specials came out I picked up a Honeyburst Precision for a backup P. At some point I bought a Squier VI which gets very little use. The last Fender instrument I bought was an Adam Clayton Jazz bass.
During these past few years I bought, sold, traded and kept some Fender amps, namely another BF Bassman set, a 1975 Super Reverb(gone), a 1975 Vibro Champ(gone), a Blues Deluxe RI, a DRRI and a PRRI. My favorite guitars are brand G but Fender makes my favorite amps. The DRRI is hard to beat, and is my number 1 amp.


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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 2:39 pm
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sfceric64 wrote:
Good to see this thread picked back up again and thanks for adding your story.

Agreed! :D
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 2:23 pm
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First guitar was a fender dg acoustic from a starter pack, tobacco burst. Loved it, still got it but some of the bracing has come unstuck.

My first summer job was spent serving/eating ice cream and looking through the fender catalogue. Fell in love with the 72 custom tele, saved all summer for it. To this day the most I've spent on a guitar. The huge fat neck is my favourite from my collection.

Then I borrowed a 1985 MIJ 62 custom tele. Thing of absolute beauty. Borrowed from my dad's mate who got it new for his 18th off his parents. I would eventually get it for my 18th from my parents. I was also made in 1985, albeit MIUK.

Then while killing time in a guitar shop, waiting for a mate to get something, I got drawn to a guitar I had never wanted. A strat. Ltd edition satin finish mim (first run), in a sort of blue-green finish. With a maple neck and black hardware it looked ace and the finish felt great. Gave it a little play, walked out with it 10 minutes later. Still love it.

My last fender was a JA90 thinline tele. Back in the ice cream days I also fell in love with the natural finish with black binding 90's thinline. Way too expensive though. But I wanted a thinline. But wanted something different to my 72 custom, considered a modern player but then stumbled upon the JA90. All the features that set it apart from a std tele had me instantly, natural finish, added a bigsby. Pretty much my go to guitar now.


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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 3:58 pm
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Hi, Moochy 13. Great Fender history. You and I have things in common. We were both introduced to Fender in our teens. One small difference though. You left some ice cream behind and went for Fender. I put the Fender down and go for ice cream. :lol:

Have a good one.
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:17 pm
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Cool thread, fun to read everyone's stories.

I was a "late" arrival to Fender. I started playing drums at about 14 because I wanted to be the next Peter Criss. :) Played drums in local bands etc til about the age of 25. My wife and I had made a promise to try and be debt free when we got hitched and the last things I owed money on before the wedding were my drums and her ring. Once in a while I remind her that if I'd sold the ring and kept the drums I would have saved $$ in the long run! :lol: Yeah, she loves that one, lol

Anyway, around my early 20's I had bought my first bass from a friend. It was an Ibanez lawsuit copy of the Ric 4001. It was nice but it was huge. I'm only 5'6" so I'm fairly certain that bass was as tall as me. Anyway, after noodling with it for a couple years I traded it for a new Ibanez. That one was also pretty nice but it still felt pretty big and uncomfortable. I was about 27 when I played in the first band as a bassist and I used that Ibanez.

Now this was all back in the early 90's, living in Central WI, with no internet we were pretty sheltered from the "world." A friend of mine called and said his folks had bought a non-working farm and when they went to clean out the barn before tearing it down they found a bass, pretty rough shape, in an old chipboard case in the barn. He told me I was welcome to it since in it's condition it was doubtful to be more than firewood.

That was my '78 Musicmaster that I still have. It was entry to Fender-dom. Up until that point I had no idea there was such a thing as a short scale, a bass so better fitted for someone "vertically challenged" such as myself. I put around $250 into that bass at the time for a new paint job, most of the old had turned an odd color, the laquer was coming off. The pickup still worked but needed new pots. I was able to clean all the chrome with some nasty chemicals and get it all shined up again. It's still my favorite.

Now, I have a Squier Musicmaster to keep the original company. Along with a Fender Rumble 500 (awesome sound for the weight) and a Fender Expo system. Our group owns 3 of those towers and for our average small bar/club gigs is plenty of sound with an added subwoofer.

A lucky find in a barn was my ticket.


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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 8:47 pm
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Great story, Chris.

A 5 stroke roll, a bass riff, 1 ratamacue, a slap and a flam on that. :D

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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 6:01 am
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Great story, Chris.

A 5 stroke roll, a bass riff, 1 ratamacue, a slap and a flam on that. :D

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I got into guitar later in life. Seven years ago at age 54 I bought a Seagull acoustic guitar and set out to learn how to play (took lessions). Figured that would be the only guitar I would ever own (famous last words).

Well, in six months I was itching for an electric and purchased an Fender American Special tele with a Super Champ X2 amp. I really recommend this amp for hackers like me.

I made some other non-Fender purchases, then in December, 2013 purchased an American Standard Strat.

After playing the strat for a while I became dissatisfied with the jumbo frets of the Am Special tele (and found I preferred rosewood fretboards to maple) so I traded it in for a Classic Series 60s tele. Wanted to give the 7.25" radius a try. I liked it in the store, but after playing it for about a year I found I just wasn't comfortable with it and traded it for a Classic Player Baja '60s Tele and am very happy with it.

I have other guitar brands (Gibson, Ibanez, PRS, Taylor) but I consider myself a Fender guy.


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