Is my precision bass a fake?

[GM60466]

Looks real enough to me.

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by LanOsb133

Give me a second I want to show you guys my Strat... Its one of 100... Or maybe 200... But the fender Decal always made me laugh.

And as stated your bass is real. Just run the serial for 100% guarantee.

Please disregard the messy room. I was trying to find my watch, and I still have yet to find it... Good thing basses are huge

"Maybe if you cleaned up your room, you'd find your watch." ~ A concerned parent

[Diogenes]

Originally Posted by bassgod0dmw

Why? Blonde was offered in 1957 so that's why it's offered on the 57' AVRI.

Transparent? That just didn't strike me as typical for latter 50s.

[Roadkill]

I thought an AVRI is a copy of the original and thereby a fake anyways?

[LanOsb133]

Originally Posted by Munjibunga

"Maybe if you cleaned up your room, you'd find your watch." ~ A concerned parent

My room was spotless. I find it use it for 2 weeks, then I loose it for a couple months then find it out of no where. But my room is usually spotless. I torn apart my entire room looking for it and was too lazy to clean up my room afterwards.

[bassgod0dmw]

Originally Posted by Diogenes

Transparent? That just didn't strike me as typical for latter 50s.

Yes. Fender Blond/Blonde finishes are somewhat transparent.

[bh2]

It's very beautiful.

[Immigrant]

Pardon my dumbness.

Is the OP asking if it's a fake of a reissue or if it's a fake of an actual 1957 P? OP said "vintage 57" and left "reissue" out, and I've re-read the entire thread a few times and I'm even more confused.

TB needs a dunce emoticon (for use on self only)

[Roadkill]

^ Seems he wants to make sure it's a real fake and not a fake fake .

[Immigrant]

Thanks. I was hoping he didn't buy it as an actual 57 and paid like, a hundred zillion bucks for it.

BTW, nice bass!

[conqr]

Originally Posted by danipus

It sounds amazing, so I would be really disappointed if it was a fake

I get your point, you wouldn't want to pay 57 AVRI price for a 'fake fake', but that still sounds strangely contradictoriallistically weird somehow

[JTE]

"reissue" is a generic term. Fender's official name for the series when it came out in 1981 (with the '52 Telecaster guitars) was "Vintage Series". At some point it changed to "American Vintage Series". They're reissues in the sense that they're reproductions of some of the features of instruments of that era. The white-blond semi-transparent finish was an option at the time the original instruments were made, so FMIC offers the VS in that finish.

In 1982 they expanded the line from the '52 Telecaster to include the '57 (Strat and Precision), and the '62 (Strat, Precision, and Jazz Bass). Shortly after a '62 Telecaster Custom (sunburst body with binding, not like the early '70s Tele Custom with the 'bucker) but it was MIJ only.

The original choices for Vintage Series was sunburst (2-tome for the '57 Strat and Precision, 3-tone for the '62 Strat, Precision, and Jazz), black, Candy Apple Red, Lake Placid Blue, Fiesta Red, and white. Over the years since 1982 they've added and deleted colors.

However, most of the choices in manufacturing were made to replicate what was done originally, as far as practical. The water-slide decal on top of the finish was done that way in '57 so the Vintage Series got the same treatment.

John

[Immigrant]

^ That's exactly what I needed.

And it also dawned on me that '82 IS vintage.

[Diogenes]

Originally Posted by Immigrant

... OP said "vintage 57" and left "reissue" out...

That's why I initially thought he was asking if it was a real '57. Anyway it's a pretty bass and even if it were a faked Fender reissue it's at least a convincing rendition with period correct hardware and such which has some merit in it's own right.

[wilfred]

Why is there a strap button on the back of the headstock?

[musicman666]

Yep that's a real fake of a real vintage 57 Fender.........The strap button on the head stock makes it a realistic fake of the real vintage 57, not the real reissue of the fake Fender vintage series of yesteryear, but the fake reissue of the original reissue fake.

[Roadkill]

^

[Diogenes]

Originally Posted by musicman666

Yep that's a real fake of a real vintage 57 Fender.........The strap button on the head stock makes it a realistic fake of the real vintage 57, not the real reissue of the fake Fender vintage series of yesteryear, but the fake reissue of the original reissue fake.

Now I understand the 666 in your user name.

[Jim Carr]

Originally Posted by wilfred

Why is there a strap button on the back of the headstock?

That'd be the Hootenanny button. Guitarists used to used straps that were connected at the head stock. Since a lot of electric bassists were guitarists who doubled, Leo was hoping to make his basses more customer friendly.

Such straps fell out of wide use in the late '60s. Essentially they were designed to either wrap around the headstock above the nut on an acoustic guitar with no heel button, or hook on to a button on the headstock.

It used to be that if you bought a leather guitar strap, it came with an extension that could either attach to the button on the headstock, or tie around the headstock just above the nut with a cord. Yeah...TMI, No?

[Stewie26]

Originally Posted by Jim Carr

That'd be the Hootenanny button. Guitarists used to used straps that were connected at the head stock. Since a lot of electric bassists were guitarists who doubled, Leo was hoping to make his basses more customer friendly.

Such straps fell out of wide use in the late '60s. Essentially they were designed to either wrap around the headstock above the nut on an acoustic guitar with no heel button, or hook on to a button on the headstock.

It used to be that if you bought a leather guitar strap, it came with an extension that could either attach to the button on the headstock, or tie around the headstock just above the nut with a cord. Yeah...TMI, No?

It's cool when I learn new stuff. Nice little journey into some guitar history there.