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Fender Gold Foil Jazz Bass

Fender · Gold Foil Jazz Bass

Price: 541 EUR – 2.138 EUR

Price history 08.09.2026 19.09.2026
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Availability: 9/10 (Common)

A Jazz Bass built to Fender's Gold Foil series specification, replacing the standard dual single-coil J pickups with gold foil-style units for a different vintage-inspired tone and look.

Where available? Go to the best price – 541 EUR About this instrument

About the Fender Gold Foil Jazz Bass

The Gold Foil Jazz Bass takes the Jazz Bass body shape and control layout and fits it with gold foil pickups - a pickup style originally associated with budget 1960s makers like Teisco rather than Fender's own single-coil designs, known for a brighter, slightly lo-fi, more percussive attack than a standard J pickup. Fender's Gold Foil series pairs these pickups with retro-styled cosmetic touches such as bound bodies and block fingerboard inlays not found on standard Jazz Bass models.

It occupies a niche position in Fender's Mexican-made lineup: aimed at players seeking a distinct alternative voicing to the classic J-pickup sound and a visually distinct retro aesthetic, rather than a vintage-correct Jazz Bass reissue.

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Sound character of the Fender Gold Foil Jazz Bass

Gold foil pickups - originally a budget design from 1960s Japanese makers like Teisco, now reproduced by Fender in this series - use a wide, flat metal foil under the strings instead of traditional polepieces, giving a wider frequency response with a distinctive bright, slightly lo-fi upper end rather than the pronounced midrange hump of a standard Jazz Bass pickup. It's a more idiosyncratic, vintage-quirky voice than Fender's usual single-coil Jazz Bass tone.

Bright Vintage-voiced Airy

Technical data for the Fender Gold Foil Jazz Bass

Body Bound body, Mexico
Pickups 2x gold foil-style single-coil
Fingerboard Block inlays
Origin Mexico (Fender)

Price history for the Fender Gold Foil Jazz Bass

Cheapest seen: 541 EUR  ·  Most expensive seen: 2.138 EUR

2.138 EUR539 EUR 08.09.2026 15.09.202616.09.202618.09.2026 19.09.2026
Cheapest seen Most expensive seen

The history of the Fender Gold Foil Jazz Bass

Fender's Gold Foil Jazz Bass swaps in gold foil-style pickups and retro cosmetic details for a distinct alternative to the standard J-pickup Jazz Bass voicing.

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