New Bass Day: Fender ADE Jazz

Matt R. · **Posted:** June 16th, 2015, 5:27 pm

What's that old cliche- "fourth time's a charm"?

Earlier this year, I sold my Rickenbacker to help deal with some hand surgery costs. I recovered the funds way quicker than expected, so being newly (and ultimately unnecessarily

) Rickenbacker-less, I decided that I would fill that void by trying Fender's American Design Experience yet again by placing a third order for a fourth bass (that'll make sense if you take a look at my post on the last page of this thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5225&hilit=fender+american+design+creations ).

Anyhow, here's my new addition, which is absolutely amazing. Perfect neck. Sounds phenomenal. Beautiful.

I went for a modern Jazz Bass.

Lake placid blue/mint green guard
Alder Body
Maple Board
Vintage '64 Pickups

I could babble about it more, but here are some pix instead.

superheavydeathmetal · **Posted:** June 16th, 2015, 5:44 pm

Awesome! Lake Placid Blue is my favorite, and with a maple fretboard 8-)

aww yeah!

I'm glad your hand issue hasn't taken away from your bass playing, both physically and monetarily.

Matt R. · **Posted:** June 16th, 2015, 5:49 pm

superheavydeathmetal wrote:

Awesome! Lake Placid Blue is my favorite, and with a maple fretboard 8-)

aww yeah!

I'm glad your hand issue hasn't taken away from your bass playing, both physically and monetarily.

Thanks, I really appreciate that. I had a ganglion cyst on my finger. If you're a musician and you have to have hand surgery, that's the one to have. I'm very lucky and it hasn't affected anything. Very minor in the overall scheme of things. 8-)

pjmuck · **Posted:** June 16th, 2015, 7:23 pm

Looks fantastic, Matt.

When did you order it? What was the turnaround time?

Matt R. · **Posted:** June 16th, 2015, 7:42 pm

pjmuck wrote:

Looks fantastic, Matt.

When did you order it? What was the turnaround time?

90 days, but this time it took a couple weeks less than that for me

AzWhoFan · **Joined:** March 14th, 2008, 10:57 am **Posts:** 2866

She's a looker Matt!

bbl · **Joined:** July 9th, 2008, 4:39 pm **Posts:** 942

She's purty.

Glad this ADE worked out for you.

Matt R. · **Posted:** June 17th, 2015, 12:35 pm

Thanks fellers. I'm pretty excited about gigging with my new additions.

Carmine · **Joined:** October 5th, 2008, 9:45 am **Posts:** 788

Beautiful Matt- it's virtually impossible go wrong with lake placid blue and maple! Hopefully this solves your "Jazz Bass problem" for awhile? :lol:

Matt R. · **Posted:** June 17th, 2015, 12:58 pm

Carmine wrote:

Hopefully this solves your "Jazz Bass problem" for awhile? :lol:

There are always others to be had 8-)

Frenchy-Lefty · **Posted:** June 17th, 2015, 1:24 pm

Awesome! How would you describe those '64 pickups?

Matt R. · **Posted:** June 17th, 2015, 1:53 pm

Hm, they sound great but I can give a better description after I gig with them. Right now I can just say they're a little darker than the custom shop 60s pickups, which are snarly and bright.

Basshappi · **Joined:** March 14th, 2008, 2:28 pm **Posts:** 965

Beautiful Jazz Matt, hope this one is all you hoped for, congrats!

Matt R. · **Posted:** June 17th, 2015, 2:45 pm

Absolutely. The only thing I changed was that I put new pots in. As usual, they put righty pots in but wire them lefty, which is fucking stupid (no taper). But yeah it's pretty much perfect now.

screambasses · **Posted:** June 17th, 2015, 4:41 pm

If you'd like a blue '77 4001 to re-add to your collection, let me know...

:roll:

pete

superheavydeathmetal · **Posted:** June 17th, 2015, 4:54 pm

screambasses wrote:

If you'd like a blue '77 4001 to re-add to your collection, let me know...

:roll:

pete

My bank account would appreciate it if you could not say things like that where I can read it :lol:

.

paulo · **Posted:** June 17th, 2015, 7:37 pm

Don't be saying that in public :shock:

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