The American Series - '64 Jazz Bass
The American Vintage Series (Archived)
The American Vintage series (Discontinued 2013) introduces an all-new lineup of original-era model year guitars and basses. 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 provide expert preservation of an innovative U.S. guitar-making legacy.
The new American Vintage Series takes a cleared slate approach with new features, new specs and restoring original tooling dies, voicing new pickups, reformulating vintage colors and more.
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)
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Pickup and Bridge Covers: Mounted Chrome with Vintage Accurate Positioning
Read the full review of this bass in issue 1.
