With the Fender 1960 Jazz Bass Heavy Relic RW Aged Ocean Turquoise #CZ546595, the Fender Custom Shop in Corona, California presents a classic J-Bass with desirable specifications from the early sixties. The traditional ingredients of the Jazz Bass come together here as part of a two-piece alder body with a four-bolt Quarter Sawn maple neck and hand-wound vintage-style Jazz Bass single coils to get as close as possible to the sound and feel of those first J-Bass models. The Fender 1960 Jazz Bass Heavy Relic RW also has a lot to offer in terms of looks, with authentically aged Heavy Relic Finish and coherent hardware features including ashtray and pickup cover. Of course, the instrument comes as an offshoot of the Fender Custom Shop including Fender Deluxe Hardshell Case and a certificate of authenticity signed by Custom Shop Manager and Senior Master Builder Chris Fleming.
The basic construction of the Fender 1960 Jazz Bass Heavy Relic Ocean Turquoise consists of an alder body built in two pieces and carefully selected for weight, grain and resonance characteristics. Thanks to its thin nitro finish with clear heavy relic aging, the Jazz Bass is particularly resonant and presents the subtle grain of the body wood in places. The back of the original '60s J-Bass U-profile neck made of radially sawn maple has also been artificially aged and conveys the smooth feeling of an instrument that has been played for decades.
For the typically clear and defined sound of the early Jazz Bass, the Custom Shop uses two Vintage-Style Single Coils hand-wound especially for the model, which skilfully capture the charm of the four-string classic. This also makes use of the electronic layout used until 1962, with concentric double-stack potentiometers for individual control of volume and tone blend for both pickups. This setup gives the Fender 1960 Jazz Bass Heavy Relic RW its enormously broad tonal palette, providing the right sound for almost any modern genre.
The hardware setup of the Fender 1960 Jazz Bass Heavy Relic RW is also kept in its original configuration of the early '60s instruments. Only classic vintage-style parts in the form of a vintage-style 4-saddle Jazz Bass bridge and traditional