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05-28-2008, 03:47 PM
|  | Forgiven | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Maryville, TN | | | 1966 Fender PrecIIs ???? what is it?
I've had this bass for 10 years, was given to me to pay off a debt. SN on neck makes it a 66, but I've never seen a decal like this. Although, if you search GC used inventory, fender precIIs pulls up in the shorthand bar. What's the story, I've never seen another and always assumed someone did a sloppy job with a decal? |
05-28-2008, 03:51 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | I have absolutely no idea, but I am interested to know. |
05-28-2008, 03:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | No idea. But interested in finding out.
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05-28-2008, 03:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Seweracuse, NY | | How about more than just a headstock? 
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05-28-2008, 04:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Atlanta | | | Its a FAKE!
Just kidding...I don't know but I'm curious to find out!
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05-28-2008, 04:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Chicago | | ???  |
05-28-2008, 04:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Chicago | | | Maybe it's German... |
05-28-2008, 04:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | | Never seen anything like that before...
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05-28-2008, 04:04 PM
| | Forgiven | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Maryville, TN | | | I know for a fact the body is not original, it was a pj body that I stripped off and stained plain jane for a while. I defretted it (BIG mistake if it winds up being worth anything) because I wanted a fretless. Last year I had a friend paint the body as he was painting his jeep with a bedliner, looks cool and didn't affect the tone as I was worried it would. It has round mother of pearl markers which makes it different as well. |
05-28-2008, 04:08 PM
| | Forgiven | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Maryville, TN | | | I have a pic of the back of the headstock. The original tuning keys were obviously replaced. |
05-28-2008, 04:26 PM
| | Forgiven | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Maryville, TN | | | I was told the pickguard was from the original, if you look closely, the third "hole" is ragged and not machined for the third knob. |
05-28-2008, 04:28 PM
|  | Sponsored by Jagermeister | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Seattle / Tacoma | | | Looks like a modified decal to me. That decal lettering isn't from 1966 either. It would be interesting to see if there was still a date stamp at the butt of the neck.
Then you say you have a non-original body, and a defretted neck. It's what we call a Frankenfender. |
05-28-2008, 04:32 PM
| | Forgiven | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Maryville, TN | | | yep, there is a date stamp on the end of the neck, I don't have a photo of that, but if it means finding out the origin of this neck, I would be happy to break it down. It plays and sounds like a P but I'm not a Fender afficianado by any means. |
05-28-2008, 04:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: D'Shaw | | Real '66 Fender Precision Bass headstock for comparison:  |
05-28-2008, 04:37 PM
| | | I actually like what you did with the body.
As for the decal?
Isn't black with gold trim along with the big honkin' PRECISION a 70's thing? Also, the kerning on the font looks off (around the R-E-C).
Looks to me like someone put on a decal, but cut out and applied each letter separately... only to spell the word wrong... then they gave up. Awesome 
Edit:^^^ beaten & yeah, that's what I thought they looked like.
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05-28-2008, 04:44 PM
| | Forgiven | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Maryville, TN | | Quote:
I actually like what you did with the body.
As for the decal?
Isn't black with gold trim along with the big honkin' PRECISION a 70's thing? Also, the kerning on the font looks off (around the R-E-C).
Looks to me like someone put on a decal, but cut out and applied each letter separately... only to spell the word wrong - then give up
| Exactly what I thought, but from memory the neck serial looked genuine. I need to take the darn thing apart and post a SN/neck photo so I can quit worrying about taking the frets off.
BTW the bedliner finish was an idea I came up with because the bass wouldn't fit in the trunk of a Miata even with a gig bag. I had to carefully angle the neck in first, angle the body in, and there it lay, unprotected except by towels and jackets I would wrap around it. |
05-28-2008, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by rollerberg2000 BTW the bedliner finish was an idea I came up with because the bass wouldn't fit in the trunk of a Miata even with a gig bag. I had to carefully angle the neck in first, angle the body in, and there it lay, unprotected except by towels and jackets I would wrap around it. | That's both hilarious & awesome at the same time.  |
05-28-2008, 05:02 PM
| | Forgiven | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Maryville, TN | | | I appreciate everyone's input. I'm now convinced the neck decal is a forgery given what the SN revealed. I will take the neck off and post the SN later, who knows, maybe the neck IS real. If not, someone went to a heck of a lot of trouble to forge it. |
05-28-2008, 05:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sag Harbor, NY | | | It looks like the second I and the S were cut off of a 70's Precision decal then turned upside down to reverse the order of the letters. |
05-28-2008, 05:10 PM
| | | | stuff i have seen like this before
usually turns out to be a philippino copy
imported to the us by military guys returning from
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