The Vintage Modified Bass VI delivers authentically vintage-style look and tone, with a few modern touches such as a comfortable “modern C” neck profile and 9.5” fingerboard radius (the originals were 7.25”), and three custom Jaguar single-coil pickups with notched “claw” shielding rings (reverse-wound/reverse-polarity middle pickup).
Other features include the model’s classic 30” scale (standard tuning one octave lower than a guitar), maple neck, bound rosewood fingerboard with 21 medium jumbo frets and pearloid block inlays, four two-position slider switches (on/off switch for each pickup and one bass-cut “strangle” tone circuit switch), tortoiseshell pickguard (three-ply white-black-white on Black model), two black plastic control knobs (master volume, master tone), and vintage-style six-saddle bridge with non-locking floating vibrato.
Specs
Body Material: | Basswood |
Neck Material: | Maple |
Fingerboard Material: | Indian Laurel |
Fingerboard Radius: | 9.5″ |
Fret Size: | Medium Jumbo |
Scale Length: | 30″ |
Nut: | 1.650″ – Synthetic Bone |
Bridge Pick-up: | Custom Single-Coil Jaguar® with Claw |
Middle Pick-up: | Custom RWRP Single-Coil Jaguar® with Claw |
Neck Pick-up: | Custom Single-Coil Jaguar® with Claw |
Bridge: | 6-Saddle Vintage-Style with Non-Locking Floating Vibrato |
Finish: | 3 Color Sunburst |
Case: | None |