The Aeon line of basses are made from Fender licensed parts assembled to my quality standards. While anyone can buy Fender-licensed parts and assemble them, mine are different because of the various improvments that are implemented. In the end, you end up with a bass that you'd pay hundreds of dollars to a guitar tech to do all these things. The value is in the details.
Here's what's different about Aeon basses:
1. Threaded inserts for Neck Screws
2. Individual neck attachment bushings
3. Angled neck heal (no shims required)
4. Rounded fretboard edge
5. Rounded frets
6. Bone nut
7. Threaded inserts for pickups
8. Threaded inserts for pickguard
9. Nordstrand Hum-canceling Jazz Bass pickups
10. Volume, blend, tone configuration
11. Truss rod access channel
12. Copper foiled pickup cavities
13. Copper foiled electronics cavity
14. Hipshot "A" bridge
15. Hipshot Ultralite tuners
with no case: $1799
(plus $79 for shipping)