It featured a synthetic bone nut, rosewood fingerboard until 2018, medium jumbo frets, chrome hardware, alnico custom single-coil Jaguar pickups with claw, and continued the trend set by the Squier Vintage Modified Jaguars and Jazzmasters of having a non-locking tremolo plate. This model was similar to the traditional Bass VI design with four switches (on/off for each pickup and a 'strangle' (low-cut filter) switch) and a Jaguar-style control plate. There are three available colors: brown sunburst with a tortoiseshell pickguard, black with a tortoiseshell pickguard, and candy-apple red with a white pickguard and painted headstock.Īlso in 2013, Squier released a Bass VI as part of the Vintage Modified series. In line with the series' purpose to reconfigure classic Fender designs, this version of the Bass VI has a Jazzmaster-type humbucking bridge pickup and a Stratocaster-style five-position pickup selector, as opposed to separate switches. In 2013, Fender released a Bass VI model as part of its Pawn Shop series.

The Fender Custom Shop reissued a similar model from 2006 through 2008. The model was discontinued in 1975.įrom 1995 through 1998, Fender Japan produced a vintage reissue featuring the 1963 model's Jaguar-style pickups and electronics. The Bass VI never caught on to the extent that the four-string Precision Bass and its derivatives did. It departed from the concept of the Fender Precision Bass in having six strings, a shorter scale and thinner strings, and a mechanical vibrato arm. The VI had an offset body similar but not identical to that of the Jazzmaster/Jaguar. The Bass VI was closely related to the Fender Jaguar, with which it shared styling and technical details, notably the Fender floating tremolo. The Fender VI was released in 1961 and followed the concept of the Danelectro six-string bass released in 1956, having six strings tuned E1 to E3, an octave below the Spanish guitar. The Fender Bass VI, originally known as the Fender VI, is a six-string electric bass guitar made by Fender. Vintage-style 'floating' tremolo with tremolo lock buttonģ single coil, originally Strat style, Custom Jaguar from 1963

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