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John Deere Fenderbird
« on: April 16, 2013, 02:45:31 PM »
Here - http://www.ebay.com/itm/171023266177?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

The most painful part - "This bass started life with a traffic cone orange finish, but has been refinished in a classic green and yellow John Deere motif with an old school John Deere applique added."  :-\ :rolleyes: :sad:

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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2013, 03:32:11 PM »
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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2013, 05:15:29 PM »
Ah a tractor bass.

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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2013, 05:23:32 PM »
I'm not sure what kind of music you would want to play with a bass like that ??? Certainly nothing I'm familiar with :o.
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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2013, 05:30:15 PM »
It's the perfect bass to play in your tractor while you're plowing the fields. You have to wear your JD gimme cap while playing.

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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2013, 06:39:37 PM »
THAT is the perfect instrument to play while singing "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"!!!  ;D :mrgreen:

(Smilies in John Deere yellow & green just for the right touch.)
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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2013, 10:39:05 PM »
I wear a John Deere cap I've had since I was five when I play and my bass has the same pickups as that one... and the idiot who did that to that bass needs to be kicked in the dick.

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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2013, 06:13:14 AM »
I'm far more offended by that headstock.
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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2013, 09:00:53 AM »
I'm far more offended by that headstock.

True, I could live with the color, I even find it kinda nice :P but that headstock is completely out of place.
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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2013, 09:19:39 AM »
Note that the bass is being sold by a store in Wichita, Kansas.  This explains many things.
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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2013, 10:23:11 AM »
I'm far more offended by that headstock.

Isn't that the standard RS Guitarworks headstock shape? This isn't a homemade copy, RS doesn't want to get sued by Fender for cloning their headstock shape.

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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2013, 10:54:15 AM »

 Since so very few were made by RS I would not be surpised to find that one to be the very same bass that I purchased from Scott and then later sold thru BassNW.
 I really don't get on with "Pee" sized necks - The pups, you want to love them 'cause they're chrome but they are a bit on the weak, listless side. Still sad to see it looking this way.

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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2013, 11:52:36 AM »
THAT is the perfect instrument to play while singing "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"!!!  ;D :mrgreen:

(Smilies in John Deere yellow & green just for the right touch.)

I was gonna say that!!!!!  Well, I guess you can make anything and there will be an audience for it somewhere.  Ugh.  Say, should JD sue these guys?  Everyone else seems to these days.
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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2013, 01:18:37 PM »
 Hmmmmmmmmmmm I'm a a IH Farmall man myself. Makes me sorry I sold the poor thing. Well  RS is in Tennessee  :rolleyes:
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Re: John Deere Fenderbird
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2013, 02:42:45 PM »
Oi karnt reed an' oi karnt wroit but oi cain play a traktor... (to the tune of an old footie chant)
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