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Felt a little stupid spengind this much money, after all, how much better can it be than my mexican P? Well, the neck was like a revelation to me. This combination of being wide and thin feels better than anything I played so far. That alone I feel like was absolutely worth it for me. I'm a huge fan of the vintage vibe, that was the biggest reason for me to want this specific model, having those early sixties type appointments just feels right to me, even though quite some of them are absolutely unimportant in the grander scheme of things. Two things bug me though, one is that, for some reason in the early-mid 2000s Fender decided to make the pickups magnets stick out from the housing and beweled their edges, which is again, pretty unimportant, but not period accurate. Luckily it's fairly easily resolved with a 2mm shim under the pickup housing. The other is that the pick up cover's profile on these was not the right shape, it's very round, the originals were way more angular. Other than that, I can say that the fit in general is great, the finish is nice and feels nice too, the reverse tuners are very easy to get used to, the bass stays in tune great, and it sounds great, sits very nice in our mix, even though we're a very noisy, distorted band with a pretty busy soundscape I'd say. Definitely try one before buying though, I'm pretty sure that wide thin neck will be a dealbreaker for some people, for me, even though I've mostly played shortscale basses for the past years, it feels like home.

Used it for some years as my main bass, it plays and sounds great. My biggest complaint is that the old factory output jack is not the most reliable after 30 years, but me being me I really want to keep this bass as original as possible. If you're in the market for one be prepared to have the binding replaced, it reacts with the paint over the decades and shrivles up, and falls off, so far my one is the only one I think I've seen with intact original binding. Other than this, if you manage to find a nicely preserved one, it's a great bass.