Fender gurus...construction question please

[JDHolmes]

I was just wondering if Fender ever built jazz basses with plywood bodies.

I just bought a "Fender" with serial number CNxxx and while the neck looks right, the body is plywood and there's no markings anywhere on the body.

How does one identify an authentic Fender body?

Opinions?

 

[Luckie]

Define plywood.
Fender did make bodies out of many pieces of wood sometimes, but the most I've seen is 17.
If it looks like "actual" plywood, then its a fake AFAIK.

 

[Bass-Adrenaline]

Some squiers had plywood bodies if i recall correctly. I may be wrong though since im no fender guru or anything.

 

[JDHolmes]

Plywood is multi-layer thin laminated wood, generally two 3/4" sheets glued together to make a bass body for 14 or so layers.

I guess a better question would be how to identify an authentic Fender jazz body.

 

[shawn2000]

The Korean Squiers had such a body. Nice necks on those, but the bodies were a sort of ply.