The Roscoe Beck Fender Artist Signature Series
electric bass guitar is modeled after a custom-made 6-string bass
built for Beck himself by luthier Michael Stevens of Stevens
Guitars, this one-of-a-kind design came in 4 and 5-string versions
and features a special-design "modern-vintage" select alder body,
3-ply mint green, 3-ply parchment or 4-ply brown tortoise pickguard,
an asymmetrical oval shaped 6-bolt graphite-reinforced maple neck
featuring rosewood, maple or pao ferro fingerboard with 22 Dunlop
6105 jumbo frets, two special-design side-by-side bass humbuckers,
Hipshot UltraLite tuning machines (with a Drop D-tuner for the E
string on the 4-string model), Gotoh (5-string) and Fender 4-Saddle
Locking Convertible (4-string) strings-through-body/top-load
bridges. Controls include a master volume, a master tone with
push/pull midrange shaping feature and a 3-way pickup selector with
two 3-way mini toggle switches for series/parallel/humbucking/single-coil
wiring. The five-string version was introduced in 1995 and
discontinued ten years later. The four-string, introduced in 2004,
is the only Roscoe Beck signature model currently available. Its
master volume and tone/mid shaping controls feature knurled
chrome-plated dome Tele knobs. Early prototypes had an abalone
dot-inlaid neck, Schaller StrapLock-Ready buttons, lacked of Drop
D-tuner on the E string and utilised a standard Fender round string
tree. The production model sports black or white dot position
markers on the fingerboard, vintage strap buttons and a custom
Hipshot string tree. The Roscoe Beck Bass Comes in
3-Color Sunburst, Candy Apple Red, Shoreline Gold, Teal Green
Metallic, Lake Placid Blue, Crimson Red Transparent and Honey Burst.
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