For sale F/s: 1965 Fender Jazz Bass

Some more pics..... I will put more up later.

Back of the headstock as requested.

Wow nice Bass!

Nice bass! I bet that thing has a great tone, any way, free bump.

Very nice indeed.

awesome bass

cool bass what is the weight please?/


peace Capt Kirk

I wish my '66 looked that good. Clay dots?

Thanks Dave88, It has pearl dots. Capt. Kirk. I will check the weight a little later and give you the details. Thanks for asking.

The weight is right at 9lbs.....carefully balanced on my postal scale. Thanks for your interest.

Paamps said:

Back of the headstock as requested.

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sure are glistening and spotless considering the aged look of the strap holder...



Cameron

Bump for a fantastic bass.

I do not want to hijack this thread, but I am very interested in the bass and am doing due diligence on it. I think they look original. Way back when, I owned a 66 Jazz Bass that had lollipop tuners, and I seem to recall that the plating on those is different from the plating on the other metal parts from the era. The plating on the tuners is shinier, and seemed not to fade or corrode as much. In addition, Fender made those tuners in house, and the footprint on those is slightly different from the reverse tuners (made by Kluson?) found on earlier basses. So if those were not original tuners, and were put on to replace a set of reverse ones, you would see slightly different screw holes. (Most of the info I have here comes from "the Fender Bass" except that last part about the screw holes, which I found online.)

Again, I think the board discourages discussion of originality of vintage instruments for sale, and from what I recall it is preferred that those discussions take place via personal message or e-mail. But I thought it important to weigh in on this issue.

Joe

If I recall correctly, Fender went directly from clay to block inlays. Too hungover to Google it right now though.

Nope. According to "The Fender Bass" (p. 34) pearl dots appeared in 1964.

Joe

dave88 said:

If I recall correctly, Fender went directly from clay to trapezoidal inlays. Too hungover to Google it right now though.

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The paddle gear introduced in 1966 was installed on jazz basses, and can also rarely be found on precision, and telecaster basses. These were chrome plated in contrast to the nickel plated machines used before them. They did clean up beautifully.

heh...i wish.

congrats to whoever goes for it.

Okay, go all technical on me! Chrome v. nickel...I liked "shinier" better!

Joe

I like "shinier" better too.

Paamps said:

The paddle gear introduced in 1966 was installed on jazz basses, and can also rarely be found on precision, and telecaster basses. These were chrome plated in contrast to the nickel plated machines used before them. They did clean up beautifully.

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So this is actually a 1966 bass then?

Yes. whichever way you want to look at it. It was completed in 66 using some parts documented from 65. Either way it is a great Jazz Bass.