SUNN Model T Settings

Posted just to highlight the tell-tale headstock shape. A gorgeous Indian Encore in for a refret and set up. This has already had the pickups and electrics upgraded by its current owner.

Fender Sunn Mustang Bass Body. Done. Comment. views. 0 faves. 0 comments. Taken on March 25, All rights reserved · Canon EOS 10D. ƒ/​;

Site Search. There must have been some pretty frantic soul-searching at Fender in the mid s, especially in relation to the low and mid point areas of their price range. In the hands of the renowned FujiGen Gakki facility in Japan, prices of the mid point electric guitars had spiralled skyward, and the market was far too competitive to tolerate that.

Japan, once a country with everything to prove in the guitar market, was now a big power, and prices were finally reflecting that fact across the board. By , Fender Japan had literally moved up a tier in terms of budget. Fender were in fact already competing at the low end of the market with Chinese-made guitars, but they were sub-branded with the Sunn label, and Sunn was a very different proposition from Squier. Sunn had little to lose in terms of reputation, and Fender had not connected itself with Sunn in such a loud and public fashion as with Squier.

Chinese manufacture was technically the answer, but Fender had to get it right. One of the steps Fender took in order to get it right was to use a separate factory from the one producing the Sunns.