The video is worth a watch for many reasons.
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I watched one on Reverb, and this morning the shop gave me an offer for a $250 discount. Hmmm.
I didn’t notice it had the grooved vintage bridge. They’re not as hard to set as Lobster makes out. Pretty easy in fact. I mean I figured it out
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No. That’s the “real” vintage Fender bridge, the one I have on Greenie. Actually you can’t use those grooves to place the string laterally because the string tension makes it go back in the straight position. This is my favorite bridge so far, tone-wise, but it does not allow any lateral setting.
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No worries, I can’t take your comments serious either.
I’ve had good luck getting the strings placed over my simgle pole single coil P pcikups. Little fiddly but it works. I do like this bridge
Probably can’t adjust enough for the misaligned bridge on second thoughts.
Fender lays a (daphne blue) egg in the end
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Excellent, I hope nobody takes me seriously. You however are acting like a massive twat on this forum, so I’m blocking you and wont be able to read anything you write in the future.
Bye 
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Get some popcorn
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Thanks for the name calling, and I wish you the best in all your endeavors.
Sincerely,
Ken
Idk… At 9m30s he shows it gets louder if you bend the E string down towards the pickup… Like a wah pedal 
It’s a feature, not a fault… 
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Same! Yeah you can’t really do much with string spacing.
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That’s addressed in the video too. 
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Norman’s rare guitars
This guy regularly handles 20k guitars.
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I own two Cabronita guitars, one Fender MIM and one Squier Vintage Modified. That’s incredible but the Fender has the same problem, much less than on this Gold Foil JB but still, it’s not a straight perfect alignment, and it’s a shame for a +$1000 instrument.
To be honest I much prefer the Squier (which is perfectly aligned, by the way) and I plan to sell or trade the Fender.
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So this happened when Fender was laying off people? Sabotage? In addition, the management had no clue? There are so many control points and a couple of critical control points that all of them have to drop the ball or the issue was raised and Fender said F that E just sell it as is, lol.
I feel like ordering one or 2 and return it just to punish those big box store who sell this especially Sweetwater with their in house Fender managers and 55 point inspections.
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Layoffs were California. This was MIM.
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I will happily live vicariously through your spite purchases. Go get 'em, Al!
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I had one MIM, sold it.
MIJ or Squier all day!
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He’s also a Fender dealer who isn’t going to disparage them.
That said, you can see the E string is in the right place. Did they fix it or get a good one? Who knows but I’d imagine they wouldn’t put crap out on the floor or in a video there regardless.
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Yeah, that’s the thing with QC problems - they are random and all over the place.
In this case there is ample evidence from pictures on Fender’s own site and online retailers. It appears Fender is pulling a Gibson here - highly overpriced instrument with dubious quality control, selling on “vintage” alone. $1300 was already absurd for this bass, even if it were flawless.
Plus, the lone single coil was thin sounding to me even for the good strings, as I expected. No surprise there, though it was admittedly richer than it could have been, given the other flaws.
Hard No.
Look, if even I am defending Lobster here, he ain’t the problem.
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Not just the E string, but the g string is also in the right spot. I think it’s a manufacture problem. And QC
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