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NAMM 2012: Fender Introduces Fender Select Series Guitar and Bass Models | Guitar World
Fender has introduced its new top-of-the-production-line best: the Fender Select series.
Designed as “Select instruments for select individuals,” the five guitars and two basses in the series are players’ instruments that put more than six decades of Fender experience and expertise on display and bring a wealth of high-end features and design options to musicians everywhere.
With choice tone woods, figured tops, strikingly beautiful finishes, figured and quartersawn maple necks with compound-radius fretboards, specially voiced Fender Select pickups that deliver masterful tone, and other first-rate features, the U.S.-made Select Series presents Fender’s finest selection.
The Fender Select Precision Bass presents an elegantly crafted, sonically seismic new take on the bass guitar that started it all, with a gorgeous Two-color Sunburst gloss-lacquer finish and flame maple top. Its modern “C” shaped quartersawn maple neck has Posiflex™ graphite support rods, a satin lacquer back finish and rear-headstock “Fender Select” medallion. The smooth-playing compound radius flame maple fretboard (9.5”-14”) has 20 medium jumbo frets, stylish black pearloid position inlays and a gloss lacquer finish. Loud, clear and deeply resounding tone issues from the new single Fender Select Precision Bass split-coil pickup.