The Blaster Bass was never licensed for manufacture by Philip Kubicki. The facts are that we did negotiate with a Japanese company to make instruments for the Japanese market only and they made us a sample Blaster Bass along with another sample of an Extender Bass for approval. We did not approve either of the basses and no agreement was ever signed. The following year we signed a licensing agreement with Fender Musical Instruments. Fast forward 10 years and these 2 samples suddenly seemed to multiply into more. We have no idea when they were made so don’t know if more than a couple of the sample basses were made and they decided to unload them or if more were made later using the tooling. There seems to be a limited supply of them though and replacement parts are not available, so I suspect the company jumped the gun thinking an agreement was going to be signed and made more than just the samples which they later offloaded. It’s a shame because some people buy these basses thinking they were licensed and that we can support them, but the reality is most of the parts on them, including bridge/tuner are not interchangeable with the Ex Factor 4 bass parts so we are unable to help.
