ShortScale.org

when you actually see the thing in person your focus goes to the head stock. the headstock is HUGE. its like the size of a strat mini. these photos don't really do the scale of this thing justice. they need to post photos of it next to a small child to get the enormity of the thing




i think its fucking awesome

that thing is amazing...really...

I've seen a few places on the web repeat the "only 200 ever made" line, but I've never seen a source for that statistic. That would mean that Fender only made about 40 a year for its production run, which sounds rather low for an instrument that was around for five years. Seems to me like CBS-Fender would have discontinued it rather quickly if sales were that abysmal.

I'm not 100% sure that the V is full scale, but I've never seen any info out there to suggest that it's a shortscale. It's 3 inches longer than a P-bass, which would make sense for a 34" scale bass with a 5-in-a-row Fender headstock.

astro wrote:I've seen a few places on the web repeat the "only 200 ever made" line, but I've never seen a source for that statistic. That would mean that Fender only made about 40 a year for its production run, which sounds rather low for an instrument that was around for five years. Seems to me like CBS-Fender would have discontinued it rather quickly if sales were that abysmal.

I'm not 100% sure that the V is full scale, but I've never seen any info out there to suggest that it's a shortscale. It's 3 inches longer than a P-bass, which would make sense for a 34" scale bass with a 5-in-a-row Fender headstock.

isnt it sometimes the case that they make 200, they sell really very poorly for 5 years "active" but they never make any more because of sales? like, how there are jazzmasters "from" a few years after they stopped manufacturing them.

just an idea.

It's actually pretty huge as far as I know. Kane from WWE plays one:

pftahahahahaha.

ITS ONLY $2700 with an hour left.


this better go to someone on SHORTSCALE

the one day i dont have money too.
Shame really these are my favorite and its really once in a lifetime they go for this cheap if there og.

the_dude wrote:the one day i dont have money too.
Shame really these are my favorite and its really once in a lifetime they go for this cheap if there og.

eh? so you have cash like that lying around spare on other days?

ended...3400

william wrote:

astro wrote:I've seen a few places on the web repeat the "only 200 ever made" line, but I've never seen a source for that statistic. That would mean that Fender only made about 40 a year for its production run, which sounds rather low for an instrument that was around for five years. Seems to me like CBS-Fender would have discontinued it rather quickly if sales were that abysmal.

I'm not 100% sure that the V is full scale, but I've never seen any info out there to suggest that it's a shortscale. It's 3 inches longer than a P-bass, which would make sense for a 34" scale bass with a 5-in-a-row Fender headstock.

isnt it sometimes the case that they make 200, they sell really very poorly for 5 years "active" but they never make any more because of sales? like, how there are jazzmasters "from" a few years after they stopped manufacturing them.

just an idea.

True, I forgot about the late 70s Jazzmasters. But I think those were still more than just 200. Seems to me that if they made that few in the first year and sold only 40, they would have chopped them up into Swingers or Customs instead of waiting 5 years to sell off the stock. The V was also featured as a regular model in the Fender catalogue for all 5 years of its production, which doesn't seem like something they would have bothered doing if they were only selling 40 a year.

34" scale according to this article.

stewart wrote:

the_dude wrote:the one day i dont have money too.
Shame really these are my favorite and its really once in a lifetime they go for this cheap if there og.

eh? so you have cash like that lying around spare on other days?

no. I was saying how Im in a financial hole when one of my favorite guitars goes cheap.
that whoever bought that though got a good deal if were still talking like 2.7 grand.
and astro i think that people say they made like 150-200 of them to boost value.

i can't beleive it sold that cheap!
i would imagine that since it is such a rare instrument and for some reason i have seen more "custom color bass V's" as opposed to standard sunburst, so perhaps it was a special order instrument for a few years.

Malik wrote:It's actually pretty huge as far as I know. Kane from WWE plays one:

haahhaahha

the_dude wrote:and astro i think that people say they made like 150-200 of them to boost value.

I think that this is most likely the case. The only source I can find for the 200 number is a Bass Player Magazine article online, which itself doesn't cite a source.

I've seen pics of maple fingerboard/black blocks & binding Bass V's, so obviously they were still making them in 1970, the last year of production.

pretty rare either way