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Fender Fullerton Reissue club

#261
drums1977 said:
Hi,

Here is my OW '62 Fullerton Jazz (stunning banana-white by now):

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You are KILLING ME with that bass.......OMG!!!!!!!!!

If you ever, ever, ever need to sell it, don't do so w/o contacting me, PLEASE!!!!
 
#264
Hi all,

I have an '82 Fullerton '62 reissue Jazz bass, Sunburst. It has been professionally converted to fretless (nice job), and the original pickups were replaced with early Duncan hum cancelling split coils. Otherwise, all original...condition is probably 8.5/10. I'm trying to figure out what the value might be...Anybody have an idea?

No case, no original pickups...

thanks!
 
#265
If it were 100% original. It would be in the $2000-$2500 range depending on condition. 1982-1984 are the primo years.
Defretted, changed pickups, no case. In the $1200 range. maybe more if someone is looking for fretless. With any used bass, it is worth what the seller and buyer agree to.
But one you mod a original bass, the price goes down fast.
 
#276
I had a Fullerton RI '62 Jazz in Oly White. I also had a Fullerton RI '57 P-Bass in Fiesta Red. I sold both, with no regrets. The P-Bass was purchased new, the Jazz slightly used. New from the factory, the P-Bass had the E string nut slot cut too deep, and it just wasn't a very good instrument. The Jazz was a utility instrument, something to play in clubs and not worry too much about. When the entire Vintage Reissue line came out in 1982, I was working for a very large Fender dealer, so I got to play lots of them between '82-'85. Decent instruments, nicer than their CBS predecessors, but nothing to merit the hyperbole I read these days about their superiority, collectability, or 'custom shop' build quality.
 
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#278
I don't know what you guys are talking about. Fenders were the cream of the crop in the pre-CBS years. There weren't a slew of luthiers building custom guitars back then like there is today. Made in U.S.A. production guitars were what everyone copied back then. Gibson's and Fenders were what you saved up to buy back then, after playing all the cheapo copies... definitely not run of the mill.
 
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#279
The Bass Clef said:
I don't know what you guys are talking about. Fenders were the cream of the crop in the pre-CBS years. There weren't a slew of luthiers building custom guitars back then like there is today. Made in U.S.A. production guitars were what everyone copied back then. Gibson's and Fenders were what you saved up to buy bank then, definitely not run of the mill.
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I'm not saying it's a good take, I'm just saying I've heard that before.
 
#280
Hi, here is my opinion. A lot of things that we read on this -and other- forum were said by one individual on one occasion and then repeated by many others. My opinion on Fullertons is not based on those opinions but on my own experience. I have owned 3 preCBS Jazz Basses and 2 PreCBS PBasses. I have also onwed 5 US Laklands (Ps and Js) and 4 Fullerton RIs (2 Js and 2 Ps). The best JBass I have ever played is my 1962. The best PBass I jave played is my 1959. After those, the closest repros were the Fullerton both in tone and feel. Then The US Laklands (partucularly the early my early JO). The 4 Fullertons were exrtemely close to the PreCBS. Keep in mind they were bouilt by mot of the same guys who bult the PreCBS. IMO they are stunning Fenders, not you average "american standard" stuff, which in my experience is not great. Ah! I have had 2 CS Jazzes ('64 model) and they were very good, but inferior to my Fullertons in built quality.
 
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