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03-14-2013, 06:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | NBD (soon) 1978 Walnut Fender Precision
Just bought this http://www.ebay.com/itm/121078320829...84.m1423.l2648
woop!
It will go well with my other bass, almost a twin except it has PJ dimarzios, and the body is walnut satin Squier. Still a vintage maple fb neck though.
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03-14-2013, 06:35 PM
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Endorsing Artist Cataldo Basses and manufacturer of the Badbird Bridge | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Rochester NY USA | | | Congrats I have a '75 fretless in Walnut (thats the official name) Very cool bass !
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03-14-2013, 06:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | Oh yeah, I've seen pictures of yours in another thread. Totally awesome. Blank board, rosewood or maple? I think it was rw?
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03-14-2013, 06:39 PM
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Endorsing Artist Cataldo Basses and manufacturer of the Badbird Bridge | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Rochester NY USA | | | Yep rose wood! Is your body ash or alder? Mine is 4 piece Alder light and resonant, sounds f'ng great.
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03-14-2013, 06:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | I think it is alder from the photos. I am hoping it is.
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03-14-2013, 06:42 PM
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Endorsing Artist Cataldo Basses and manufacturer of the Badbird Bridge | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Rochester NY USA | | | Either way that's a beautiful bass and a nice score!
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03-14-2013, 06:42 PM
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Midtown Guitars | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 810, Michigan | | | ive been eyeballing that on ebay. nice score, but its not a NBD until its delivered.
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03-14-2013, 06:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | Thanks! I had a 10% ebay coupon which I applied towards it.
and yea... you are right about the waiting
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03-14-2013, 07:00 PM
| | | | Congrats on the bass. I had one very similar to it back in the late 70's. Lots of bottom, great tone, and presence in the mix to die for. We recorded one of our live shows back then, and I could hear every single note on the playback as clear as a bell, and we had a guitar, keyboard, drums, trumpet, and sax in the band. I eventually sold it to buy a computer. Wish I didn't <sniff>.
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03-14-2013, 07:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | At least you have a 82 jazz and an E series precision! I have had good experiences with 82 fenders as well as E series. In fact, my other precision has an 82 neck on it (even though the serial points to 78/79) and I have two E series stratocaster necks.
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03-14-2013, 07:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2012 Location: Binghamton, NY | | | i love how those look, i'm probably gunna make a warmoth replica someday with a few changes (black block inlays!). judging by the grain though it's probably an ash body |
03-14-2013, 07:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | It does seem to have ashlike grain at parts, it seems so foggy its hard to tell. But you are probably right. Either way its 8.5 pounds so I am happy.
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03-14-2013, 07:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Huntsville AL | | Ha. I have a lefty. Same color, same pick guard, same cream Dimarzio.  |
03-14-2013, 07:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Huntsville AL | | | Well, not the same fingerboard. |
03-14-2013, 07:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | Thats awesome. Wild how they did the fender logo on lefties.
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03-15-2013, 12:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Matt R.  Ha. I have a lefty. Same color, same pick guard, same cream Dimarzio. Attachment 324570 | That's beautiful! Quote:
Originally Posted by Figjam Thats awesome. Wild how they did the fender logo on lefties. | That's the way Fender did lefty logos in late 70's, starting in 1976 when they started putting the serial number on the headstock and changed the model name to a smaller font. In the 1968 - early-1976 period Fender used the larger "TV logo" font and that wouldn't fit comfortably on a lefty headstock, so for lefty instruments made in that period they left out the model name and used just the Fender logo, here's a picture of my lefty '75 P: 
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03-15-2013, 04:53 AM
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03-31-2013, 02:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | It has arrived!
Havent plugged it in yet, but it is a perfect weight and the neck feels great!
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