Rudy partnered with the Fender Custom Shop to recreate the glory of a whole series of the vintage Fender guitars and basses we know and love, combining modern playability with vintage vibe, and trying to recreate these guitars as they would have left the factory in their original production year.
This example a 1962 style Jazz bass in Olympic White with matching headstock is meant to be a modern fusion of vintage style/sound with modern accessibility, most notably with:
9.5 radius
Slab board rosewood fretboard
Vintage nickel tuning keys
Custom shop vintage J-bass pickups
We've had these recreated here as if you've just bought a new J-bass for the first time in 1962, brand new to you. Imagine what it must have been like taking home your brand new Fender J-bass(then strung with flatwounds!) for the first time, having no idea what to expect. That's the feeling we're trying to capture.
