2006 Fender Custom Shop Bass VI

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Stats

List Price	$3,780
Retail Price	$3,024
Paid Price	$1,900
Series	Time Machine Series
Model Name	'64 Bass VI NOS
Model Number	150-0060-(800)
Serial Number	R31232
Colors	(800) 3-Color Sunburst (Bleached) (Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish)
Body	Select Alder
Neck	Quartersawn Maple, Small “C” Shape, (Light Tint Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish)
Fingerboard	Round Laminate Rosewood, 7.25” Radius (184mm)
No. of Frets	21 Vintage Style Frets
Pickups	3 Custom Jaguar Single-Coil Pickups (Middle Pickup is Reverse Wound/Reverse Polarity)
Controls	Master Volume, Master Tone
Pickup Switching	3 Pickup On/Off, 1 Low Cut Switch
Bridge	Vintage Style “Floating” Tremolo with Tremolo Lock Button
Machine Heads	Fender®/Gotoh® Vintage Style Tuning Machines
Hardware	'60's Vintage Chrome
Pickguard	4-Ply Tortoise Shell
Scale Length	30.3” (767 mm)
Width at Nut	1.50” (38 mm)
Unique Features	Vintage Styling, Quartersawn Maple Neck, Round Laminate Rosewood Fingerboard, Reverse Wound/Reverse Polarity Mid Pickup, Bleached 3-Color Sunburst Finish, Built as if bought new in its respective year and brought forward in time.
Strings	Bass VI 5350/6 #073-5350-000 Stainless Steel, (.025, .035, .045, .055, .075, .095.)
Accessories	Deluxe Black Hardshell Case with Orange Plush Interior and Limited Release Embroidery
Case	Deluxe Black Hardshell Case
Introduced	1/2006

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“Fender’s one and only Bass VI guitar is back in all its glory as a limited release in 2006 only!

“Originally used mainly as a studio instrument that could handle the Nashville ‘tic/tac’ sound, the Bass VI has built a loyal following among guitarists looking for a baritone guitar with a look and feel similar to the popular Jaguar® guitar. Features include a bleached Three-color Sunburst finished on an alder body, small quartersawn plain-grain C-shaped neck with a round laminated rosewood fingerboard, Jaguar pickups (middle pickup is reverse wound/reverse polarity) and vintage nickel Jazzmaster®/Jaguar bridge. Includes limited release embroidered case and certificate. A unique Fender original is back!”

— Fender.com

This used Bass VI was purchased in the winter of 2008 from “i_love_sharin_foo” of OffsetGuitars.com just in time for me to be broke for Christmas.

December 21, 2008

ETA: December 24, 2008. Merry Christmas to me.

December 31, 2008

I spoke too soon. FedEx managed to get this thing at least into the state of Wisconsin without incident, but the people who run the home delivery shipping center in Oak Creek are apparently as dumb as a bag of hammers. They weren’t able to make the delivery on Christmas Eve. Fine, I can understand a little delay due to the busy holiday. But then they missed two more consecutive delivery attempts. In fact, yesterday I spent the whole day at home waiting for my doorbell to ring, only to find another delivery exception on the tracking page that claimed I wasn’t home. I wound up driving down to Oak Creek to get them to make the driver turn around and try again, and that’s the only way I ever got it.

I’ve lived in the same place for over 9 years, and the average mailman can find my door. So what’s FedEx’s excuse?

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