The neck has a nice vintage tint so overall the bass looks really nice. It's a really nice, dark tort that sits well with black. I've seen some horrible ones on Cort-Squiers but this one looked like real Fender tort.īlack and tort looks much better than I had expected. You never know what you're gonna get with Cort-manufactured Squires but this was one of the nice ones.įit and finish were flawless. It would have been a 0 star rating because they made the whole instrument unplayable.Įxcept for these frustrations I'm actually quite happy with this bass. It wouldn't have been possible to rate this bass with the stock strings. I did manage to remove all of it eventually and luckily I knew about the junk strings so I had a set of LaBellas ready to install. It was a much thicker type than the one they use on pickguards and frustratingly difficult to remove. The control panel plates did NOT have this plastic.
I don't think I've ever played a new instrument as utterly useless as this one.Īnd while on the subject of upsetting customers: I totally understand why they use the protective plastic on the pickguard but surely there must be a way to apply in that doesn't require the buyer to un-install the entire bridge to remove it? And why the protective plastic on the base plate for the "tremolo" system? Protective plastic on metal hardware shouldn't be necessary. It's almost like they want to upset their customers. It's almost unbelievable that Fender has kept selling these basses with these strings for YEARS, if not DECADES. It sounded absolutely horrible, felt even worse and kept sliding off the side of the fingerboard half the time. Let alone get rid of the rattle and buzz. The tension was so low that the E-string couldn't even produce a steady tone. I had done some research so I knew the stock strings would be junk but I could never have imagined how utterly useless they were! They might just as well have delivered the bass without strings. Paing a fortune for Custom Shop seems a bit excessive for such a niche instrument. I haven't seen one used in my area for years so I decided to give this Squier a chance. These days it's either Custom Shop, Squier or finding one used. I've wanted a Bass VI for almost 30 years but I never got around to buying one while Fender still made them.
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