Showing posts with label Powercaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Powercaster. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Power casting


Fender's Alternate Reality series' Powercaster is now available here. It's listing for a whisker shy of $1.3K. This will pretty much be the price reference for other models in this series. I'm interested in one of the models but would re-think about paying more than $1K for a Mexican Fender. 

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Alternate reality


The success of 2018's Parallel Universe series by Fender led to 2019's Alternate Reality models seen above. Essentially, these are mix-matched Fender models made to be presentable & somewhat appealing to the quirk-inclined folks out there. L-R: Electric XII/ Sixty-Six/ Meteora HH/ Powercaster/ Tenor Tele. Unlike the 2019 iterations, these are Mexican & more appealing in terms of prices.


I'm most attracted to the Sixty-Six as it is a guitar version of the Jazz Bass. However, I find it disturbing that the default humbucker (seen above) is showing misalignment. Two implications: 1) The humbucker concerned is not F-Spaced 2) The bridge sports a wider dimension. They couldn't get it right back at the factory; are we paying for oversight? I wouldn't say it's a dire concern but the manufacturer should be more in the know when it comes to such details. We can easily swap this our for a properly spaced replacement but a covered F-Spaced pickup is harder to come by at the stores compared to the uncovered counterparts.