Ebay fender?

Whatever it is, it's f***ing gorgeous, I wish I already owned it.

Never heard of Fender doing a neck-through design before though, and don't remember seeing anything like this in my Fender Bass Illustrated History book. What's a HEARTFIELD?

 

nice bass!

 

I just googled, and it's definitely not a DR 4C, unless they had several different styles of that one model. The DR's on the site I went to all had "DR" on the headstock and the angle at the top of the headstock is different.

Someone was speculating in the eBay listing's comments that it might be an F-Bass. This seems pretty credible, as they *do* use an "F" as their logo, and possibly back in the 80s was using a Fender-style F as a logo. Someone else was speculating that it was Fender prototype that was never productized.

Anyway - it looks awesome, I'd love to play it. Reminds me of the TB thread "who has a bass no one else on TB has?"

 

It went for $561 on the bay.
They lost me at $456.
Based on what I could find on google and at the Harmony Heartfield site, it may very well be a Heartfield Fender.

Later...

 

Way to go and congrats! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE re-post once you've received it and have checked it all out, I'm dyin' of curiosity, envy, and a desire to just play it.

 

PS, where'd you get the picture of Geddy on crystal meth? Just kidding, hope it's not you!

 

wow i saw that a while ago on ebay and it looked like a knockoff fender at first, but now that its a verified fender, i may try to find one of these

 

Authenticity aside, it looks totally hot. Very unique and cool, a good cross between space age and coffeetable. Some hints of Alembic, Status, and even Kubicki in there. Sweet!

 

Thanks for the update. That is one awesome looking bass.

 

Lets see if this helps any in 1970 or so Fender wanting to cover the up scale Jazz market introduced a series of archtop jazz box guitars ... one was the Montego ... I dug up this headstock scan from a 1970 catalogue

note the inlay on the Montego and your bass ...

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... Worst part is I remember the catalogue from when it came out!

 

wow! It IS a Fender! Headstock and nut are identical...

I think you just got onto a very rare bird find there, lamar...

congrats!

OOPS! IT IS YOUR BASS! lol....

never mind...I'll go away now...LOL

 

That is such a sweet looking bass! I'm envious!
When you contacted Fender, did you give the serial # to them, also? It will be interesting to hear what they have to say. Nice find!!!