Fender pre-CBS Club: pics mandatory!

[Mastermold]

Can I be #62 when my Jazz Bass arrives? That would make for a nice symmetry...

Sounds good to me -- you need to hold up your end of that bargain however and show us that bass!

 

[Zanderwestcoast]

 

[Fun Size Nick]

The new '74 AVRI Jazz has '76-80s Schaller-style tuners.

No great loss there, I have a '74 and needed two hands to turn the original tuners! I replaced them with Schallers, so maybe the AVRI is a reissue of my personal bass, and should hereafter be known as the Fun Size Nick signature Jazz Bass Still, it is weird that they don't have these details correct.

 

[ExaltBass]

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Details!

 

[Zanderwestcoast]

1965 Jazz. All original except body only pro re-fin in olympic white many years ago (originally sunburst). Neck/pots dated July 65. Brazilian rosewood. Neck is well worn and plays like a dream....

 

[bbjonz]

Sounds good to me -- you need to hold up your end of that bargain however and show us that bass!

Absolutely!

 

[bbjonz]

Absolutely!

Well, the '62 is in the house. Actually, it arrived Wednesday but I was out of town (long story) and had to wait until my return on Saturday to open it. The suspense was awful...

But it is as great as advertised. Surprisingly light, great neck (truss rod all the way to the butt end of the neck--a prerequisite for me), and feels great. Neck date is October 62, and it is a veneer board, made a few months after the switch from slab. Some pics:

Full on:

Full body frontal:

Full body back (with great view of mojoing):

And for the coup de grace: Intact string mutes!

The mutes will come off once I have Harvey at Rainbow Guitars in Tucson check it over, just to make sure all is as claimed. But damn, this is one nice bass and an impressive piece of history.

Joe

 

[9mmMike]

Well, the '62 is in the house. Actually, it arrived Wednesday but I was out of town (long story) and had to wait until my return on Saturday to open it. The suspense was awful...

But it is as great as advertised. Surprisingly light, great neck (truss rod all the way to the butt end of the neck--a prerequisite for me), and feels great. Neck date is October 62, and it is a veneer board, made a few months after the switch from slab. Some pics:



And for the coup de grace: Intact string mutes!

The mutes will come off once I have Harvey at Rainbow Guitars in Tucson check it over, just to make sure all is as claimed. But damn, this is one nice bass and an impressive piece of history.

Joe

Good golly miss Molly! That is outstanding!

 

[DavidBassista]

Congrats on that 62 Jazz bass. Looks amazing.

 

[st0n3]

#64 for my 64 Jazz Bass?

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[bbjonz]

Congrats on that 62 Jazz bass. Looks amazing.

Thanks, Mike and David. Glad I did the deal. The mutes are funny. The bass has Daddario nickel rounds on it and the mutes just kill the notes as designed. I can't imagine what it sounded like with flats. Carol Kaye territory, or maybe more appropriately Joe Osborne, though judging by this pic he took them off.

Joe

 

[ICM]

Thanks, Mike and David. Glad I did the deal. The mutes are funny. The bass has Daddario nickel rounds on it and the mutes just kill the notes as designed. I can't imagine what it sounded like with flats. Carol Kaye territory, or maybe more appropriately Joe Osborne, though judging by this pic he took them off.

Joe

Great photo! He played on alot of the Simon & Garfunkel tracks.

 

[Mastermold]

Well, the '62 is in the house. Actually, it arrived Wednesday but I was out of town (long story) and had to wait until my return on Saturday to open it. The suspense was awful...

But it is as great as advertised. Surprisingly light, great neck (truss rod all the way to the butt end of the neck--a prerequisite for me), and feels great. Neck date is October 62, and it is a veneer board, made a few months after the switch from slab. Some pics:

Full on:

Full body frontal:

Full body back (with great view of mojoing):

And for the coup de grace: Intact string mutes!

The mutes will come off once I have Harvey at Rainbow Guitars in Tucson check it over, just to make sure all is as claimed. But damn, this is one nice bass and an impressive piece of history.

Joe

FANTASTIC!

#62 for you as promised!!

 

[Mastermold]

#64 for my 64 Jazz Bass?

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Sure--#63 is next in line after bbjonz but we can jump it and give you #64!

 

[Mastermold]

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[hsech]

What's the cut off year.

 

[hsech]

Never mind. I Googled and it looks like it's 1965.

 

[bbjonz]

Never mind. I Googled and it looks like it's 1965.

You know, the technical cut off is the first week of 1965. But most folks consider Fenders from 65 as pre-CBS because nothing really changed. It's roughly mid-66 when CBS-induced problems take hold. In fact, the best Jazz Bass I recall playing was a '65, and the '66 Precision I had when I was a kid was spectacular. If it were up to me, I'd include 65's.

 

[Mastermold]

You know, the technical cut off is the first week of 1965. But most folks consider Fenders from 65 as pre-CBS because nothing really changed. It's roughly mid-66 when CBS-induced problems take hold. In fact, the best Jazz Bass I recall playing was a '65, and the '66 Precision I had when I was a kid was spectacular. If it were up to me, I'd include 65's.

Well yeah the technical definition of "pre-CBS" is pre-January 3, 1965 when CBS officially took over Fender. (See, e.g., Link Removed) That doesn't mean early 1965 or 66 CBS guitars and basses couldn't be every bit as good or better than those produced months earlier, it took time for CBS changes to production to be implemented. It's just legally speaking that is the technical difference or line of demarcation between "pre-CBS" and "CBS" eras.

 

[96tbird]

If only we could nail down the first change that Leo objected to then we could truly demarcate when the CBS era began.