Fender American Vintage 64 Jazz Bass, Lake Placid Blue

Full Description

The American Vintage Series

The American Vintage series introduces an all-new lineup of original-era model year guitars and basses. Take a trip through Fender history and heritage with these incredibly authentic guitars. The American Vintage series has a range of different years, spanning the mid-50s to mid-60s, all boasting key features and pivotal design elements from their years. The American Vintage series instruments provides expert preservation of an innovative U.S. guitar-making legacy, showing how Fender not only knows where it's going, but also remembers where it came from.

The new American Vintage Series takes a cleared slate approach with new features, new specs and the most meticulous level of vintage accuracy yet - a complete and comprehensive re-imagination of the entire vintage-reissue concept that'll just astound you with its detail. Restoring original tooling dies, voicing new pickups, reformulating vintage colors and more. Their work based on actual vintage guitars and basses they tracked down.

American Vintage '64 Jazz Bass®, Lake Placid Blue

This Lake Placid Blue Jazz Bass features an even slimmer "C"-shaped maple neck to mirror the 1964 design and features a round-laminated rosewood fingerboard with 20 vintage-style frets and clay-coloured dot inlays. Furthermore, it has a three-ply white pickguard and new American Vintage '64 Jazz Bass single-coil pickups. It has a lower-mounted finger rest, vintage-style bridge with threaded steel "barrel" saddles, reverse tuners, black plastic control knobs, chrome pickup and "F"-stamped bridge covers with vintage-accurate positioning, auxiliary strap button on the back of the headstock, and more.

Features and Specifications

Body & Bridge:

• Body Shape: Jazz Bass
• Body Material: Alder
• Bridge: American Vintage Bass with Threaded Steel 'Barrel' Saddles
• Finish: Lake Placid Blue

Neck & Fingerboard:

• Neck Shape: 'C'-Shape
• Neck Material: Maple
• Fingerboard: Round-Laminated Rosewood
• Fret size: Vintage-Style
• Radius: 7.25"
• Scale Length: 34"
• String Nut: Bone
• Nut Width: 1.48"
• Inlays: Clay Coloured Dot
• Truss Rod: Vintage-Style Heel Adjust

Electronics & Hardware:

• Bridge Pickup: American Vintage Single-Coil '64 Jazz Bass
• Middle Pickup: American Vintage Single-Coil '64 Jazz Bass
• Controls:Volume 1 (Middle Pickup), Volume 2 (Bridge Pickup), Master Tone
• Control Knobs: Black Plastic
• Hardware: Nickel/Chrome
• Tuning Machines: American Vintage Reverse Open-Gear
• Strings: Fender USA 7250M, NPS, (.045, .065, .085, .105 Guages)
• Pickup and Bridge Covers: Mounted Chrome with Vintage Accurate Positioning