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First of all, an extremely warm welcome to you Trace. My wife is
trying to learn how to play "50 Bucks a Midget" on the bass right
now and is marvelling at and cursing your name at the same time... :)
Seriously, your bass lines really propel those Penetrators tunes!
I asked about the new Jazzmaster & Jaguar guitars over at the Fender
Forum a few months ago. The answer I got from Morgan (Ringwald?) at
Fender was that these are made in Japan. There was some initial
confusion because the original ad at Musician's friend said they
were made in America. They seem like a good deal, and are rumored to
have the same pickups as found in the American Vintage series
reissues. I haven't played one, but some other people on here have,
I hope they will chime in.
As for your other question about reverb tanks; that's a joke
right? :) It seems like we talk about them on a weekly, no hourly,
basis. If you search the archives you should find lots of stuff. But
hey, we do enjoy talking about them, so lets start again.. As for
hot rodding them, check out Dick Messicks very cool page:
I've done the tube swap and cap mod and am very happy with my
reissue. Some people still think they sound too "ice-pick" harsh
though.
You can get a new reissue 'verb at Musician's friend. Vintage units
go for big bucks on Ebay ($500-$700); even used reissues fetch
nearly the same price as a new reissue. Its crazy. Musician's Friend
even had a special reissue that came in black (all of the new
reissues are brown).
Thanks for signing up!
BN
--- In , "trace_luger" <luger@c...>
wrote:
> Anyone play the new Custom Fender Jassmasters coming out
> of China? Played one today, felt good, but of course it was new. I
> was wondering If they hold up for the price?
> Here they were priced @ $650-$750.
