New squier Bass VI colours at CME

[Russell1982]

With the Bass VI so popular these days, do you think we'll see an AVRI-type USA release ever?

I keep wondering this too. It seems to be gaining more and more popularity and the used ones are going for more and more on the used market. I just missed out on a Japanese reissue on reverb for about £1,350 which is the best price I’ve seen in ages. So you’d think fender would release one in their standard line up.

[flysky578]

With the Bass VI so popular these days, do you think we'll see an AVRI-type USA release ever?

I keep wondering this too. It seems to be gaining more and more popularity and the used ones are going for more and more on the used market. I just missed out on a Japanese reissue on reverb for about £1,350 which is the best price I’ve seen in ages. So you’d think fender would release one in their standard line up.

I would be even ok with a MiM one, I really loved the neck on the Pawn Shop VI

[Russell1982]

Yeah I think I’d be happy with something like that too. I’ve sometimes been tempted by the pawn shop but I know I’d be bugged by the change in configuration of pickups etc. it just wasn’t classic bass vi.

[sugarandopium]

Damn yeah 1350 was a great price at this point.

[Russell1982]

I know, I was just trying to sort if they could ship it to me and then it sold. I was kicking myself.

[burpgun]

Pawnshop Bass VI owner here, and yup, if there was a USA reissue I would definitely give it a look. No issues with my current VI, although yes, the humbucker they put in it is absolutely terrible and was a pointless mod. My only beef with my VI is that the neck always needs a truss right tightening every so often. None of my other instruments do.

[lastactionhero12765]

Hard pass on both

Sunburst and the shell pink are still the coolest, IMO

100% agree--especially with the matching headstock on the shell pink! I really wish the fretboard was darker than what you get from Indian Laurel, though.

[graceless]

Thought I was crazy. Not a fan of these new colors! Shell pink 4 life.

[Nevets]

I need that LPB Bass VI! I hope Long and McQuade gets some of these in Canada.

[LVC]

As a big fan of the Elvis Costello signature JM I was really excited about the walnut VI and JM.
I don't know if it's the pictures, but I find both really ugly. What a disappointment!

The LPB looks ok... Not my favorite color though. Sherwood green is the only color that could make me sell my VM VI to buy one (Squier, if you're reading this... )

[46346]

I like the VM much better.
Rosewood boards, medium jumbo frets.vs laurel and tall narrow frets.

Whatever the metal is on the CV saddles, to my ears the stock style VM bridges resonate more pleasantly when unplugged.
Moot point because a vi needs a staytrem cv or vm.

Cv has a nicer neck tint and a nicer water slide.
It has nicer tort on the guards.

The bodies are Basswood on the vm, poplar on the cv.

The pickups are very similar.

Everything else is pretty much identical.

They’re very similar but for some of us the necks are a night and day difference and enough to be a deciding factor.

excellent - thank you!

CV could be for me, as i'm into trying the maple neck (looks like my first real guitar, a 1974 Jazz Bass - mocha, with maple board, BB&B. and yes - the neck finish tint looks vintage.
curious about the frets... i've done OK with narrow/somewhat tall, but medium jumbo seems to make more sense. i can't even remember what frets are on the VI that i've played were.

[sugarandopium]

I like the VM much better.
Rosewood boards, medium jumbo frets.vs laurel and tall narrow frets.

Whatever the metal is on the CV saddles, to my ears the stock style VM bridges resonate more pleasantly when unplugged.
Moot point because a vi needs a staytrem cv or vm.

Cv has a nicer neck tint and a nicer water slide.
It has nicer tort on the guards.

The bodies are Basswood on the vm, poplar on the cv.

The pickups are very similar.

Everything else is pretty much identical.

They’re very similar but for some of us the necks are a night and day difference and enough to be a deciding factor.

excellent - thank you!

CV could be for me, as i'm into trying the maple neck (looks like my first real guitar, a 1974 Jazz Bass - mocha, with maple board, BB&B. and yes - the neck finish tint looks vintage.
curious about the frets... i've done OK with narrow/somewhat tall, but medium jumbo seems to make more sense. i can't even remember what frets are on the VI that i've played were.

Yeah the vms play better with the MJ frets, I have one of each (the vm is a jaguar, the cv is a vi) and the vm plays SOOO much better to someone who prefers vintage frets if I could choose any.

Those maple necks are really cool, eliminates the laurel problem. I’m considering getting one of the maple Jazzmasters. Love the walnut and maple combo.

You could always sand down the tall frets into something more comfortable. It might be worth the time and effort or money to pay someone with that maple neck too.

VM VIs are getting expensive on the used market too, so for what a used VM costs right now you can buy a CV and have a fret job done for probably the same out of pocket…

[46346]

You could always sand down the tall frets into something more comfortable. It might be worth the time and effort or money to pay someone with that maple neck too.

aye. if the 'tall narrow' frets are 6105, that's exactly what i did when re-fretting my main
JM, a vintage 1959. i didn't want to change the feel and look that much, so we took some height
off of the 6105 wire. it felt just right, and i've never thought about it again.

of course with the heavier strings on the VI, it may feel different. but the only VI that i've played
for any length of time was a 60's or 70's model. i never really took note of the fret size, and it was years ago. i'm guessing they were frets much like a vintage JM?


meanwhile - has anyone noticed the difference in string spacing between VM and CV?
at Staytrem, they make two sizes in a VI bridge: 52mm for the CV, and 55 for the others. seems like that's negligible as far as the feel goes?

[Zork]

they posted pics on insta today

Looks all very pretty to me indeed but I would have loved it a bit more if the blue was a bit less blue...

[LVC]

I really don't like that reddish "walnut" stain.