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Post subject: AMERICAN DELUXE PRECISION BASS body colors?
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 1:26 pm
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I'm looking for a new American Deluxe Precision bass for my dad but the body colors offered are very very boring (sunburst, black, white, natural, and blonde). Not even a candy apple red. What's the deal? Does anyone know if you can buy one new from the company with a custom color, like in the old days?


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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:54 pm
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Any information would be useful.


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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 9:10 pm
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You'd do better to contact Customer Relations with those color options. Get it directly from them.

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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 3:46 am
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Ghastly wrote:
I'm looking for a new American Deluxe Precision bass for my dad but the body colors offered are very very boring (sunburst, black, white, natural, and blonde). Not even a candy apple red. What's the deal? Does anyone know if you can buy one new from the company with a custom color, like in the old days?


You can't buy the more exciting colours - they are simply not viable product offerings.

People tend to talk bright colours, then buy conservative. When it comes to signing on the dotted line, the average buyer can't commit to the bright colours they have talked about for so long; it is too risky.

The Deluxes have always been conservative; the Standards, which had many colours, are now becoming conservative. Don't blame Fender - Fender makes what people buy and people generally buy conservative - Fender would sell bright orange if people bought it, but they don't.

Even Music Man, the bastion of coolness and alternative, has recently ditched seemingly 70% of their colours and are now more conservative that Fender.

......but here is they good new: the colours of the American Deluxes are actually very classy. Not cool and exciting, but very classy. I have a (seemingly) boring 3-tone Sunburst P-Bass American Deluxe and it is seriously sleek - after 3 years, it still takes my breath away. I also saw and ash blonde Jazz Deluxe and it was astounding.

I have changed my tune after now owning a colour that is technically boring - I now lean towards the subtle yet classy colours in which Fender specialises.




Having said this, If you can look to the Japanese Fender market, they have crazy colours available.


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Post subject: Re: AMERICAN DELUXE PRECISION BASS body colors?
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:03 am
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Ghastly wrote:
Any information would be useful.


Just buy one and paint it any color your father wants. The Deluxe series will be replaced by the new Elite series in April. I'm guessing $1800.


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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:22 pm
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Thanks for the comments guys. I like conservative, myself, as well as the interesting colors.

If it were for me, I'd probably get either the sunburst or the olympic white and slap a tortoise or white pearoid guard on it.


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Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 11:56 pm
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If you need a colour: there are some Wine Red American Deluxes floating arount - the colour was stopped in 2013 due to a lack of demand. I have the Wine Red Jazz Deluxe.

The other alternative is to go for an American Standard in a bright colour. I have both Deluxe and Standard Jazzes and the real difference is bling - the quality is the same. In fact, the Standard is my preferred - the Deluxe is needlessly more combersome. I use an external pre-amp with the Standard to get the tone shaping.

A colourful Standard + external pre-amp would be worth considering. My Standard is a Mystic Red & Maple - it is awesome.


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Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 7:53 am
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The series was discontinued since January though a few models are still listed on the US website.


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Post subject: Re: AMERICAN DELUXE PRECISION BASS body colors?
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 3:59 pm
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We found this one:


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It's a 2011, what the seller (LA Music, in Canada) called a "Precision Design Deluxe", supposedly an early Design Experience bass, but it has almost no documentation. It has no Design Experience neckplate. The hang tag is not the normal tag, either. But I talked to Fender and they ran the serial number and said that while the early Design Experience records were a bit sketchy, the basic info on this one seems to check out. It fixed the paint choice issue. :wink:


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