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What's the best way to get in touch with them...?Maybe they share pickguards with regular production Fender models; you can always ask.
I'm not sure CS pickguards are "standardized" to fit off-the-shelf; if they were, wouldn't it be just like a standard Fender pickguard?
Just e-mail Fender or, even better, talk with the store you bought your '64 Precision - they can talk with Fender CS.
I remember seeing a '62 Jazz pickguard in a CS-logo package, so I assume that there was a time some of them were available.
Even if CS pickguards are non-standard, they could probably sent a separate one to the CS dealer you bought your instrument. I initially wanted two pickguards with my custom-order, the fitted tortoise and a mint one in case I didn't like the first; although it wasn't possible to have both together, the salesperson that processed my order informed me that I could get the mint separately.
They have a phone number; I don't have it with me right now, but it should be in the packet that came with the bass, or you can find it at the CS website I'd guess.
Ok...
FYI, just got off the phone with Fender Customer Care (very nice guy) and according to them, the only company direct replacements would be the "Pure Vintage" series pickguards, which I believe he said were the ones on our basses...if you want a little variety without sending the pickguard off, he suggested WD music in Florida saying that they have a "Pure Vintage" template which they use...this, of course, applies to those who own reissues and not Custom Classic owners, though WD has pickguards for CC owners too...I'll try my hand later this week and post pics when I can...
FYI, just got off the phone with Fender Customer Care (very nice guy) and according to them, the only company direct replacements would be the "Pure Vintage" series pickguards, which I believe he said were the ones on our basses...if you want a little variety without sending the pickguard off, he suggested WD music in Florida saying that they have a "Pure Vintage" template which they use...this, of course, applies to those who own reissues and not Custom Classic owners, though WD has pickguards for CC owners too...I'll try my hand later this week and post pics when I can...
That's a nice middle-ground solution. 
Good to know that the Pure Vintage line are a match for the Time Machines, too.
Good to know that the Pure Vintage line are a match for the Time Machines, too.
Wish I still had the Lake Placid Blue bass, it was exactly the way I wanted it, Abalone face and side dots on the quarteresawn maple neck and fingerboard (not one piece neck), '58 CS pickup, original aged nitrate pearl pickguard, linear taper volume pot, higher value cap, etc. I was the original owner and waited a long time for that one, I loved it and worked a lot of gigs with it. I thought I had to sell it and a bunch of other instruments after a serious health issue a few years ago, but I got lucky and worked my way back. The Shoreline Gold bass I bought here on TB this past March, I'm the fourth owner, but it's in near perfect shape and plays and sounds great. They are both '59 NOS P bass models, basically the same instrument though different fingerboards, they have the same pickups.
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That Blue P really looks sharp with the maple, but the Shoreline P is cool as hell...
I know there are many different opinions on Fender CS instruments, but having owned more than a few Fenders from the 1960's, 70's, 80's and 90's, and some great custom instruments from Smith, Sadowsky, G&L, etc., it's my opinion that the Fender Custom Shop instruments are as good as anything out there of comparable price, and certainly the best the company has ever produced. And of course buying one in near perfect condition used, at a substantial savings from the new price makes for an even better value. But looking back, if I were twenty or thirty years younger and still looking at a long playing career ahead of me, I would happily order and pay for another new one.
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I came oh so close to buying that when you had it for sale. Boy, I wish I had.
Straight swapped 59 CS closet P (2000), for 60 CS relic J (2015),get more use out of a J for the styles I play. What a funkin rockin great sounding bass
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Yes I just edited my post to include that the precision is a closet and the jazz a relic as well as the actual years of production.
That jazz bass growls like no other bass I've played.
Took it to rehearsal the other night, guitarist turned to me and said that bass sounds awesome.
Funny thing about the P was that I did use it for a couple of shows but it mainly sat in the closet, no pun intended. Both great basses, The guy who got the P loved it and it really suited his style of playing, very heavily James Jamieson influenced.
But that J if I were to only own one bass, that would keep me smiling.
I just picked up the same CS jazz bass. I love the tone. I was always dissapointed with MIM and Squier jazz tones that I would try in the store but this CS is one of the best sounding basses I have ever heard.
