The Mermaid was originally a Fender Squier body, and I put a Warmoth neck on it. There were two or three basses that I bought as Fender Squire, mostly for the body, and then took the neck off and changed it to a fretless Warmoth. Squire is a cheap version of Fender's body that were first made in Japan and then they moved to China and Indonesia because of manufacturing costs.