Fender Fullerton Reissue club

[A-Step-Towards]

Hey, I was told this was a 1984 fullerton neck, it all looks correct as do the tuners-the finish was removed on the back of the neck.

Here are my questions, there is a penny in it-why? it looks like its where the micro tilt would be, but these dont have micro tilts? its a 1984 which would be fullerton, everything is fender I just dont understand this. Its a 1962 penny.





























That is a 1962 Penny

[Mastermold]

That's a new one for me!

[Mojo-Man]

Originally Posted by JTE

Yep. The original colors for the Vintage Series were Sunburst (two-tone for the '57 instruments and three color for the '62 ones), Fiesta Red, Candy Apple Red, Lake Placid Blue, Black, and a vintage white. Over the years Fender has deleted colors, and made different instruments available in different colors, but in '82 all the VS (Strats, Precisions, and Jazz basses- the '52 Tele was offered in transparent) were available in any of those colors.

John

Little know fact, in 1982-1983 natural was offered to.
Everyone wanted the colors again, so natural did not sell well.
They dropped it in 1983.
My friend bought a 1982- natural-1962-P-Bass.
Only one I ever seen.
He put a gibson ebo pickup in the neck. still has the bass.
He will never sell it to me, i've offered to buy many times.

[One Drop]

Originally Posted by Mojo-Man

Little know fact, in 1982-1983 natural was offered to.
Everyone wanted the colors again, so natural did not sell well.
They dropped it in 1983.
My friend bought a 1982- natural-1962-P-Bass.
Only one I ever seen.
He put a gibson ebo pickup in the neck. still has the bass.
He will never sell it to me, i've offered to buy many times.

That's interesting, very first time I've heard that and never seen it in catalogues or heard it mentioned. Doesn't sound too logical either seeing how natural wasn't originally available in the instruments the AV series was copying.

Maybe it was a store swap of an E series body with an AV neck, or a Special order? I'd love to hear more about this.

[Mojo-Man]

Originally Posted by One Drop

That's interesting, very first time I've heard that and never seen it in catalogues or heard it mentioned. Doesn't sound too logical either seeing how natural wasn't originally available in the instruments the AV series was copying.

Maybe it was a store swap of an E series body with an AV neck, or a Special order? I'd love to hear more about this.

It was offered due to the fact so many basses were stripped by players in the 70's.
It was in the original catalog, and was in adds in Guitar Player.
There was a color chart. Offered in Nitro-finish.
Only offered in 1982, dropped in 1983.
I've only seen two Precisions, both 1962-Reissues.
Never seen a Jazz Bass, or a 1957-Reissue in factory natural.

[One Drop]

Originally Posted by Mojo-Man

It was offered due to the fact so many basses were stripped by players in the 70's.
It was in the original catalog, and was in adds in Guitar Player.
There was a color chart. Offered in Nitro-finish.
Only offered in 1982, dropped in 1983.
I've only seen two Precisions, both 1962-Reissues.
Never seen a Jazz Bass, or a 1957-Reissue in factory natural.

Thanks for the info!

[Kopfjaeger]

Originally Posted by Caca de Kick

Incorrect....
Fenders' low point was the late 70's. Then in 81-ish a new production manager (Bill Schultz) took over and the quality turned around, machines recalibrated. they still had heavy woods in quite a few models, but the build quality on everything was night and day from a few years earlier.

Hmm, I had a late 81 produced Fender P, black with white pickguard and maple neck with that dark insert strip of wood on the back side. No one wanted it and she was minty. Ended up selling on eBay for $1000 this past January. I thought that was quite low for the vintage and the mintyness of that bass.

That bass played very well and despite several gigs at CBGB and a few other 'Punk" clubs "back in the day", she was in real nice condition. I still had the chrome covers wrapped up from the day I pulled them off. I hand picked her brand new at Manny's in NYC. Oh well.

Sepp

[Johnny Alien]

I know we have discussed cases before but let me ask this...when did they switch from the red interiors on the tweed cases and what other identifying features do the Fullerton cases have.

[Johnny Alien]

The internet answered my questions for me. Google first ask questions later.

http://www.fenderreissue.com/fender-...ue-strat-cases