Fender USA and Fender Mexico

[garyb]

US company, but Japanese factory IIRC(Fernandes)....

[Nestor]

Your Fernandes drives me crazy, it’s so beautiful and must be a joy to play with too! Great instrument, it is, to my understanding, the best of all of the guitars you have.

[Nestor]

I made my mind, and I don't want any Modulus, this is the one I want exactly:



http://planetbass.com/shop/modulus-tbx-6/

I whish I could get it right now... but...

[garyb]

graphite necks have a very even tone, but they're HEAVY.

[stonberg]

That Fernandes is gorgeous!

Uh-oh, GAS ignited!

I'd love to be able to afford a pot belly ESP, such a pretty guitar:



...but circa £5.5K last time I checked

[Nestor]

Beautiful guitar, very clean design.

[jksuperstar]

You guys give me GAS. I have had this Steinberger for some years...in some ways, it's an amazing instrument. The blend of Graphite core neck thru body & maple give a great piano tone when using the bridge pick up. I can come back to it after a month and it is still in tune. But Gary is right about the weight (I can fight off the zombie apocolypse with this if needed)...but that is more the maple than the graphite.

The only drawback, is the limited tones. It is not a very flexible instrument, having a little more clinical clarity than musical roll-offs of frequencies. And to my ears, it's sensitive to the amp it is mated with...SansAmp (which usually does good things) only creates mud. Most Ampeg amps or emulators pull off great tones, and to that end, both the Sonic-Core Ampeg model and Celmo's BAM work absolute wonders...better than anything else I have at my fingers...including an Ashdown Superfly and a Fender Bassman (15").

[Mr Arkadin]

Just a bit too '80s for me...

I have to say with all that body missing and no headstock I always thought they'd be light.

[Nestor]

I use Celmos' BAM in every production, I have several templates, it is in every bass take. Then I use quite a lot Mojo, it sounds truly amazing too, but for guitars.

[Nestor]

I have played one of those hedless thin basses and I can tell, they are not particularly heavy, perhaps it was another make, I don't remember anyway.

[jksuperstar]

Just a bit too '80s for me...

I have to say with all that body missing and no headstock I always thought they'd be light.

The headless shape forces my body to do hip gyrations with every down beat. It makes me feel like one of Robert Palmer's line up.

The originals from the 80's were all graphite (and light), these newer (2008) models are mostly maple, only with a graphite channel that runs through the neck & body (as if maple wasn't stiff enough?).

[hubird]

[quote="jksuperstar"...]with a graphite channel that runs through the neck & body (as if maple wasn't stiff enough?).[/quote]
of course...to keep the clarity from the top to the bridge (but sustained by the woud)