Vincent Van Trigt 1952 Peacock Precision Bass. $22,500
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https://youtu.be/Hv4X18OKeR4
There are also two limited edition basses - P Bass Special Journeyman Relic (in 3TS, Aged Dakota Red and Aged Sherwood Green Metallic), and Custom Jazz Bass Heavy Relic (in Aged Natural, Aged Black and Faded Aged 3TS).
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If you don't want to spend $22,500, you can buy a Fender/Mattel Hot Wheels guitar (https://guitar.com/news/gear-news/fender-mattel-partner-16-custom-shop-hot-wheels-guitars/) for a mere $12,500 (and up).
And don't forget that $3500 Fender swamp ash sunburst turntable (https://www.fender.com/en-US/lifestyle/gifts-novelty/fender-x-mofi-precisiondeck-turntable/9190021010.html).
From a collector's perspective, I'd say the Katana is worth every bit of $12,500.
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I don't quite get the Journeyman basses. It's a mix of historically unrelated features. Jazz necks with transition logo and a modern heel cut, vintage features and relicing with a modern high-mass bridge, aged 60s nitro finishes with black laminated post-74 style guards and treble-side tug bar... and when they do use tort, it's so ugly. For this price tag, get some Spitfire tort, just like Dan Lakin does, and he charges a fraction of what Journeyman guitars cost.
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Quote from: Dave W on March 10, 2022, 12:55:12 AM
If you don't want to spend $22,500, you can buy a Fender/Mattel Hot Wheels guitar (https://guitar.com/news/gear-news/fender-mattel-partner-16-custom-shop-hot-wheels-guitars/) for a mere $12,500 (and up).
I kinda like the fretless ("Hot Wheels™ Night Shifter™ Fretless Precision Bass®, Black with Blue Competition Stripes"). Built by Vincent Van Trigt, who also built the Peacock bass. Ebony board and Curtis Novack T-Bird pickups.
Not $16,500 like, but like.
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I guess I should be glad they didn't make a bass version of the Violimaster Tele. This way I get to keep both kidneys.
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The pickup and surround on that Peacock Precision Bass look like a $15 AliExpress cigar box guitar pickup. Absolutely ludicrous. It looks like they stole some birdy Chinoiserie wallpaper from the rundown Chinese restaurant I used to live near.
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Quote from: Alanko on March 11, 2022, 11:19:33 AM
The pickup and surround on that Peacock Precision Bass look like a $15 AliExpress cigar box guitar pickup. Absolutely ludicrous. It looks like they stole some birdy Chinoiserie wallpaper from the rundown Chinese restaurant I used to live near.
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