1957 Fender P on CL

[sleepy_monkey]

Yikes! Looks like it is in great shape. Not sure about the price...seems pretty high...but nice bass...tons of mojo.

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[Headless Llama]

no mojo... it just needs to be cleaned.

 

[electracoyote]

"...comes with a hardshell case and its original gig bag"

Experts, please help. Did '57 P Basses come with gig bags?

 

[bh2]

Holy Moly... I can get a new one for less than that!

 

[Dynacord]

"...comes with a hardshell case and its original gig bag"

Experts, please help. Did '57 P Basses come with gig bags?

Yes! They usually came with cases but Fender did make gig bags as well -- I have a 1959 version - in the same brown tolex material that they used shortly after for the cases and amps.

 

[Meddle]

Make and offer of $300. Point out that you can get a new shiny one for as much money and it won't be all old and rancid and scratched up.

Seems a strange move to try and flip some vintage kit like that on CL with only a few shoddy photographs.

 

[OPBASSMAN1994]

He may have meant the gig bag it originally came to him in.

 

[electracoyote]

Yes! They usually came with cases but Fender did make gig bags as well -- I have a 1959 version - in the same brown tolex material that they used shortly after for the cases and amps.

Very interesting. Yeah, OPBASSMAN, I'd want to verify if it is the original.

Learn something new every day, that's why I love TB.

 

[s_mcsleazy]

just looks like a road worn to me. i realise it might be a old one at that price but the pics arent clear and i see none of the real tell tale of the bass aka THE NECK STAMP

 

[Dynacord]

just looks like a road worn to me. i realise it might be a old one at that price but the pics arent clear and i see none of the real tell tale of the bass aka THE NECK STAMP

'57 would be a penciled date - the stamps weren't until later. Regardless, all the tell-tale details can be (and often are) faked -- though that one looks most likely correct.

 

[jdthebassman]

Yikes! Looks like it is in great shape. Not sure about the price...seems pretty high...but nice bass...tons of mojo.

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there is no fender worth that kind of money all they are is a CNC machined block of wood with car paint. for that kind of money I would rather buy a killer double bass.

 

[JTE]

there is no fender worth that kind of money all they are is a CNC machined block of wood with car paint. for that kind of money I would rather buy a killer double bass.

Except the CNC stuff wasn't around in 1957. And the collector value of an excellent condition Precision from 1957 is way above its intrinsic value as an instrument.

John

 

[Dynacord]

there is no fender worth that kind of money all they are is a CNC machined block of wood with car paint. for that kind of money I would rather buy a killer double bass.

While they wouldn't have been CNCd in 1957 I pretty much agree. I paid $1,800 for a killer '58 P and thought that was a lot at the time.

edit: John beat me too it. +arguing about the vintage stuff is much like arguing about art - some people are willing to pay more for something than what others may (rightly or wrongly) assign as the intrinsic value.

 

[jdthebassman]

Except the CNC stuff wasn't around in 1957. And the collector value of an excellent condition Precision from 1957 is way above its intrinsic value as an instrument.

John

I guess if you have money to burn just my opinion

 

[brendan_a]

It seems sketchy to me. I would want that checked out by someone who knows what they are talking about first. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder or however that argument works.

 

[D Bopp]

The market for a 57 right now is around $10K for all original. He won't get near his asking price.