Fender American Vintage 74 Jazz Bass, Black

Full Description

The American Vintage Series

The American Vintage series introduces an all-new lineup of original-era model year guitars and basses. Take a trip through Fender history and heritage with these incredibly authentic guitars. The American Vintage series has a range of different years, spanning the mid-50s to mid-60s, all boasting key features and pivotal design elements from their years. The American Vintage series instruments provides expert preservation of an innovative U.S. guitar-making legacy, showing how Fender not only knows where it's going, but also remembers where it came from.

The new American Vintage Series takes a cleared slate approach with new features, new specs and the most meticulous level of vintage accuracy yet - a complete and comprehensive re-imagination of the entire vintage-reissue concept that'll just astound you with its detail. Restoring original tooling dies, voicing new pickups, reformulating vintage colors and more. Their work based on actual vintage guitars and basses they tracked down.

American Vintage '74 Jazz Bass, Black

The American Vintage '74 Jazz Bass incorporates the significant changes that were brought to the Jazz Bass in 1974. Only the year before had the bridge pickup been moved about half an inch closer to the bridge. Furthermore, 1974 saw the last of the four-bolt necks for quite a while. The bass guitar's slim "C"-shaped maple neck was re-sculpted with a meatier U-shaped profile (and acquired a walnut "skunk" stripe). White fingerboard binding and pearl block inlays made their first appearance, the longstanding tortoiseshell predecessors were replaced by black pickguards. The American Vintage '74 Jazz Bass also has white binding, pearl block inlays and 20 vintage-style frets. This Jazz Bass comes in a Black colour.

This bass's other authentic features include its urethane-finished alder body three-ply black/white/black pickguard (three-ply white/black/white on Black model), new American Vintage '74 Jazz Bass single-coil pickups, upper-mounted thumb rest, '70s-style "Fender"-stamped open-gear tuners, vintage-style bridge with single-groove steel "barrel" saddles, four-bolt "F"-stamped neck plate, chrome pickup and "F"-stamped bridge covers with vintage-accurate positioning, and more.

Unique Features: Mounted Chrome Pickup and "F" Bridge Cover with Vintage- Accurate Positioning, Upper-Mounted Thumb Rest, "Bullet" Truss Rod Adjustment, Four-Bolt "F" Neck Plate, Walnut "Skunk" Stripe, White Neck Binding with White Pearloid Block Position Inlays

Features/Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Colour: Black
• Body Shape: Jazz Bass®
• Bridge: American Vintage Bass with Single-Groove Steel "Barrel" Saddles
• Strings: Fender® USA 7250M, NPS, (.045, .065, .085, .105 Gauges)

Neck & Fretboard

• Neck Shape: "U" Shape
• Number of Frets: 20
• Fret Size: Vintage-Style
• Position Inlays: Pearloid Block
• Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" (18.41 cm)
• Head Stock Binding: White
• Fingerboard: Round-Laminated Rosewood
• Neck Material: Maple
• Nut Width: 1.475" (37.46 mm)
• Scale Length: 34" (86.36 cm)
• Truss Rods: Bullet Style Truss Rod
• String ­Nut: Bone
• Tuning Machines: American Vintage '70s Fender-Stamped Open-Gear Tuning Machines

Pickups & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: American Vintage '74 Jazz Bass® Single-Coil
• Neck Pickup: American Vintage '74 Jazz Bass® Single-Coil
• Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Master Tone
• Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome
• Control Knobs: Black Plastic Knobs