Fender Vintera III Early 60s Bass VI RW CAR
Product information "Fender Vintera III Early 60s Bass VI RW CAR"
In 1961 Fender wanted to expand its range, and after Danelectro had already introduced a six-string guitar-bass used by then guitar superstar Duane Eddy, they decided to produce a significantly more sophisticated model. That was the birth of the Bass VI. The Bass VI was intended to make it easier for guitarists to switch to the electric bass; in essence this instrument is a guitar with a long scale and strings tuned one octave lower. Prominent users included Jack Bruce and the Beatles. In the '70s the Bass VI gained belated fame thanks to the Dutch band 'Hank the Knife & the Jets', who used the Bass VI. Original examples of this niche instrument are rare and very expensive, but there's a remedy: the Fender Vintera III Bass VI CAR is a reissue of this exotic instrument at a moderate price. Looks, wiring and appointments match the original — an exotic but very cool instrument.
- Body Material: Alder
- Body Shape: Offset
- Bridge Pickup: intage-Style Early '60s Bass VI Single-Coil
- Color/ Finish: Candy Apple Red
- Colour: Red
- Controls: 1x Volume, 1x Tone
- Country of Origin: Mexico
- Finish: Gloss Polyester
- Fretboard: Round-Laminated Rosewood
- Fretboard Inlays: Clay Dots
- Frets: 21
- Hardware: Nickel / Chrome
- Includes: Gigbag
- Middle Pickup: intage-Style Early '60s Bass VI Single-Coil
- Neck: Maple
- Neck Pickup: Fender Vintage-Style Early '60s Bass VI Single-Coil
- Neck construction: Bolt on neck
- Pickup Configuration: S-S-S (3x Single Coil)
- Pickup Selector Switch: Slide switch
- Pickup type: Singlecoil
- Scale: Short scale
- Scale Length: 30" (762 mm)
- Strings: 6 string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .024-.100
- Technology: Solid Body
To make a Fender instrument available to everyone, they are offered in different price ranges. The subsidiary Squier sells affordable, Far East-made models built to original specifications with Fender know-how in the background. An affordable, "real" Fender can be found in the series made in Mexico. The classic original Fender instruments, such as the American Pro series, are made in the USA. For lovers of hand-built instruments and guitars with vintage flair there is the Fender Custom Shop, where you can even have a guitar built completely to your own specifications.
But Fender is not only known and appreciated for its instruments, it is also famous for various amplifiers such as the Deluxe Reverb, the Princeton, the Champion, the Blues Junior and the Fender Rumble bass amp range. Fender now also offers a wide range of guitar accessories like strings, picks, cables, straps, cases, tuners and care products, as well as spare parts and pickups, plus accessories and merchandising. You can of course find all of this at the music shop you trust – session in Frankfurt and Walldorf!