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Post subject: Much difference between '93 and '96 MIM P Basses?
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 7:50 am
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My first bass ever was a '93 model MIM P bass, black with white pick guard. I stupidly sold it when I was younger, and now, for sentimental reasons, I would like to own another one. I found a '96 model that looks exactly like the '93 that I used to have. Besides serial number MN6, are there many differences between the two year models? Thanks in advance. P.S. If anyone knows of anyone getting rid of a '93 MIM black and white P bass, let me know.


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Post subject: Re: Much difference between '93 and '96 MIM P Basses?
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 9:34 pm
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IIRC there was a shortage of alder in the mid/late 90s and some MIM instruments of that era destined for a solid, opaque finish had bodies made of poplar instead (a perfectly acceptable substitute tone wood). Other than that, I can't think of any significant differences there might be between Ensenada-made Precision Basses built in '93 and '96.

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Post subject: Re: Much difference between '93 and '96 MIM P Basses?
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:38 pm
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1993 and 1996 Fender MIM instruments were built in COMPLETELY different plants, but by many of the same workers. On this very date, February 11, in the year 1994 Fender's 22,000 square foot Ensenada facility in Baja Mexico burned to the ground when a spark started a fire in a paint booth during routine maintenance and the fire got into the vent system almost instantly engulfing the entire building. Fortunately the inferno resulted in no fatalities because the plant was closed at the time.

What I call "The Fender Miracle" followed. Thanks to an around the clock construction schedule the new larger plant opened for production completely retooled and restocked 100 days later.

Post fire MIM Fenders from mid 1994 through 95 are clearly superior to the ones before the fire. The same could be said for 1996 as well.

Fender has expanded Ensenada further today to a complex encompassing 288,000 square feet employing over 1,000 workers making it the most costly and largest guitar/amp manufacturing complex on the entire continent. Fender's USA plant in Corona, California by comparison is 176,000 square feet.


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