A *PLASTIC* Precision Bass 😱🤯??

Fender Custom Shop. Those three words evoke a thrill in bass players everywhere. We can’t help it! Some of the world’s most iconic instruments were crafted in this very division for equally awe-inspiring hands.

In today’s video we head to South West England to audition a Fender Custom Shop plastic ‘see-through’ bass that pays homage to the quintessential Fender 4-string.

[the.bloodless.one]

I’m gonna be the first to get fender to build me a bass made entirely of dehydrated zucchini. JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE!

[aaronamado]

It looks bad ass and now one day someone will find this cool bass in a dig site years and years down the road, bass will live on!!

[KangaDrew]

When I was in college, I got to play with different instruments that were made of plastic. I had no idea people were doing that. I also got to use midi controllers that were based off instruments other than the piano. I was fascinated with the midi guitar

[businessofrhythm]

I'm assuming it's acrylic, not plastic. It's a really common material for stringed instruments and drum shells as well.

[christosfragias]

I saw Charlie Jones recently when he played with The Cult. He's an awesome bassist. 🔊

[MetallHeadSpeedruns]

So... Technically, it's a PP bass? 😅🥴🤪

[GingerDrums]

Hilariously it's been proven that the material has NO impact on electric basses and guitars. String guage, pickup type, scale length, action and pickup height are the variables.

[rdhudon]

They had clear plastic basses in the early seventies . Steve Priest Played one, Phil Lynott could be seen with one . I don't know if they had a plastic head on it though .

[isaacjarrell]

Matthew Lillard is older and more British than I remember.

[kaganozdemir]

Tonewood has absolutely zero audible effect on the sound. It's all about the pickups and the circuitry.

Edit. And of course the strings

[stepanbandera]

The Ampeg Dan Armstrong bass was lucite.

[slowpoke]

Tonewood isn’t a thing on electric instruments.

You’ve got metal strings and magnetic pickups and the amplifier - _these things affect tone_

The material the guitar is made of has literally no impact on the tone at all.

This has been objectively demonstrated on many different occasions now - the most dramatic I’ve seen is someone who just tuned strings from one work bench to another - literally no guitar body, no fretboard, just strings under tension and a pick up. Sounded fantastic, sounded like an electric guitar.

People who talk about tonewood are 20 years behind the conversation and don’t have a full awareness of the facts.

[toongurl]

I wanna know about the weight of the bass

[Natashahoneypot]

It would have been nice to see the bass in this short.

[SeemsLiquid]

May it be a $12k bass or a referbished second hand bass. May it be plastic or wood, play what is good for you. Play with joy and groove. Just keep jamming~

[Victtimus]

It sounds exactly as you would think it would..

[tankthelord]

First ever? That's a bold statement when they've been doing it for years.

[andomi]

The only part on that bass that was not plastic was the pickguard, made of wood.

[DeeveOnYT]

Resin headstock
Maple neck
Where/how joined?

[markr.devereux]

dan armstrong made an acrylic bass in the 70s. i wonder how much this sucker cost.