In 2013 Jason Smith from the Fender Custom Shop created an oddball! A bass guitar with everything from somewhere else. The headstock of a Fender Coronado, the bridge from a Guild, Pickups from a Danelectro… combined with an offset Bass VI body. The Fender Rascal is the “Frankenstein” among bass guitars.
This weird bird was a huge success at the music trade shows and Fender decided to put it in production as part of the Mexican “Classic Player” series. It is a four string short scale bass with lipstick pickups. A bass with guitar pickups? Yes, and the sonic range is awesome! Besides the “normal” five position switch you can expand your tonal range with another two by pulling the volume knob.
I like these oddballs, they look cool, play great and sound fantastic! For the demo I plugged this one into a vintage (1969) Marshall SLP and a 4×12 Marshall cab. To my ears it sounded great. It has a very old skool sound, almost like an upright bass. As Antoine says at the end of the demo: “it is not a slapper bass”, … but for anything else it will do the job and make you look cool!
This instrument sounds incredible, has great intonation and sings out rich harmonics. The Boracho has a lightweight reverse Jazzmaster body and one TV Jones Thunderblade pickup with a volume and a tone control. I am a huge fan of TV Jones pups and this Thunderblade is LOUD! Overwound coils for slightly more “growl” than a P-bass. The pickup is right in the sweet spot, the guys from the Fender Custom Shop got it bang on.
I put this bass up for adoption! Anyone looking for a cool bass guitar? With this one you will be likely the only one on the block with one of these. Very limited and crafted at the Fender Custom Shop. It has an “as new” condition. This bass comes with the original oversized hardshell case, case candy, certificate, tags, CS strap and cable and straplocks. The bass has been taken immaculate care of and is in excellent condition. Anyone interested can contact me via email or messenger.
