'72 Tele Bass...

[Marc DLarosa]

Nice! It's a '73 BTW.

You are correct. I was told it was a '72, before it was delivered. Not sure how to change the title...

 

[Andrew 1976 Ibanez 2353]

Been a while. Things got crazy, for a bit. Decided against Green...

SHE'S DONE!!!
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I need to understand more about those pickups. They seem to be SPLIT COIL (like Pbasses) but are enclosed... Are they HUMBUCKERS..? or Split Single Coil..? or something different. Thanks for your thoughts.

 

[JIO]

I need to understand more about those pickups. They seem to be SPLIT COIL (like Pbasses) but are enclosed... Are they HUMBUCKERS..? or Split Single Coil..? or something different. Thanks for your thoughts.

It's a hum-bucker designed by Seth Lover of '50s Gibson fame.

 

[tim gueguen]

They're a bass version of the Wide Range Humbucker Seth Lover designed for the Telecaster Custom and Deluxe guitars, which have the same sort of split polepiece look.

 

[Flaked Beans]

What's the question? That bass clearly needs to be rescued, and you're the one to do it. I assume the price reflects the damage done?

Not sure I'd go green... I'd probably go the restoration route with the nicest Fender custom color of the period. But either way, it found you and needs you. Do the right thing.

Calm down. It is not a 60 jazz bass.

 

[Ghastly]

Calm down. It is not a 60 jazz bass.

***? Left field comment 3 years later? I thought I was calm. Why are you trying to be a bully? Nevermind. I don't care.

 

[Marc DLarosa]

***? Left field comment 3 years later? I thought I was calm. Why are you trying to be a bully? Nevermind. I don't care.

Hey Guys... it's just a bass. SHEESH.

 

[Andrew 1976 Ibanez 2353]

They're a bass version of the Wide Range Humbucker Seth Lover designed for the Telecaster Custom and Deluxe guitars, which have the same sort of split polepiece look.

thanks - I will research as to WHY the polepieces are split in that manner...

 

[Andrew 1976 Ibanez 2353]

It's a hum-bucker designed by Seth Lover of '50s Gibson fame.

thanks - but WHY are the polepieces split in that manner...

 

[JIO]

thanks - but WHY are the polepieces split in that manner...

I don't know for certain, but here's a tb thread comparing it to the Gibson side-winder "mud-bucker" -https://www.talkbass.com/threads/fender-telecaster-bass-humbucker-vs-gibson-mudbucker.847815/

 

[tim gueguen]

thanks - I will research as to WHY the polepieces are split in that manner...

It may be nothing more than Lover, or someone else in Fender's R&D department of the era, trying to make them look different from Gibson's covered humbuckers with their 6 in a row screw hole pickup covers.

 

[Andrew 1976 Ibanez 2353]

thanks - I will research as to WHY the polepieces are split in that manner...

This is a nice explanation of the WIDE RANGE PICKUP
https://lawingmusicalproducts.com/d...-range-humbucker-and-the-genius-of-seth-lover