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08-01-2011, 07:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northwest USA | | | FS: 74 (72) Jazz Bass - Black/Maple - Mojo!
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Recent financial difficulties have forced me, with a very heavy heart, to sell some of my basses.
Up for sale is a 74 Jazz Bass. The serial number dates it to a 72, but the other features (maple neck with MOP markers, three bolt, pots, etc.) date it to a 74.
Features and facts:
Pots date it to a 74 (1377438, 38th week of 1974)
No neck date stamp
All original - I have the original pick guard, but some miscreant painted on it (i will include)
Original case
Bell cover, PUP cover
Tons of mojo!
Seriously, I call it mojo, but the wear is body/paint only. The front/top wear mark actually some finish over it. Structurally the bass is great. Phenominal player, great neck, sounds just killer, and I mean killer. NAILS that classic mid-70's J-Bass tone. Three bolt, and light for a mid-70's J. Really a killer bass; this is a seriously cool bass.
I have more pics in higher def if any serious buyers would like to see them.
Asking $2250, buyer pays shipping. Located in Seattle area, anyone local is welcome to stop by and try it out. I would be interested in trades if cash is involved. Particularly interested in a Sadowsky Will Lee with a non-Maple board and lightweight amps and cabs. Hit me up if you have anything else you may want try.
Last edited by hyperba55 : 08-07-2011 at 12:50 PM.
Reason: price
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08-01-2011, 07:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northwest USA | | | More pics |
08-03-2011, 06:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northwest USA | | | Updated trade options ... |
08-03-2011, 09:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Las Vegas,NV | | | Interesting.... a 74' with a 3 bolt neck? Still a killer bass no matter what. Bump |
08-05-2011, 02:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northwest USA | | | Info on when they switched to 3-bolt is mixed - I have seen 72, 73, 74, and 75, all from reputable sources. Other aspects point to it being a 74. |
08-05-2011, 02:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northwest USA | | | Some other stuff is selling so I am able to relax my asking price and trade options a bit ... |
08-05-2011, 02:43 PM
|  | (aka Black Bart) | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: OR | | | For what it's worth, this is from "The Fender Bass, An Illustrated History" by Hal Leonard pg.104:
"The three-bolt neck plate, introduced on the Telecaster Bass in 1972 and later on the Jazz Bass in 1974, maintained both the large "F" and the serial number above it. The three-bolt continued until 1981, but the serial number was moved to the headcap in 1976."
Could we get a picture of the neck plate, perhaps?
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08-05-2011, 02:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northwest USA | | | Here you go. The serial number on the neck plate dates it to a 72, but there is no way that it is a 72. I assumed they took a neck plate from a 72 Telecaster bass and slapped it on a J Bass when they first started doing 3-bolt J Basses.
I have the same book, which is where I got the rest of the info on dating it.
Interestingly enough, the guy that sold it to me tried to pass it off as a 72 (but I knew better).
Last edited by hyperba55 : 08-05-2011 at 03:02 PM.
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08-05-2011, 03:50 PM
| | (aka Black Bart) | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: OR | | | Yep, good book and If I recall correctly, I remember reading something that during the '72 to '74 era Fender was using back stock from previous years to use it all up, which makes dating basses from this era particularly tricky. But this does indeed look to be a '74. If I didn't just get a J, I'd be all over this as I'm a sucker for black and maple. Good luck with the sale.
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08-07-2011, 12:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northwest USA | | | Price lowered ... trying to avoid sending this to eBay |
08-09-2011, 02:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northwest USA | | | Made a deal for a ShuttleMax, so no longer looking for a head .. still looking for a light combo (MarkBass 210) or some lightweight speaker cabs ... or for outright sale, or heck, what have you! |
08-15-2011, 09:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northwest USA | | | Off to eBay if this doesn't sell bump .... |
08-16-2011, 04:57 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Mass | | | Really going to "think about it"....others are selling similar 73-74 jazzes for $3000....mmmmm |
08-16-2011, 08:17 AM
|  | User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Coast | | | Probably one of the first 3-bolt Jazz basses. Fender was still producing the occasional 4-bolt Jazz until mid 1975.
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08-16-2011, 09:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northwest USA | | | lots of interest, but no bites yet ... |
08-19-2011, 11:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northwest USA | | | Off to eBay if no sale this weekend. |
08-23-2011, 02:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northwest USA | | | Off to eBay tonight ... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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