Fender Telecaster Bass Identification and Opinion

Its a good bass and they sell for about $500 or so if you can find'em.

 

The pink and blue paisly were made a few years ago. Made in japan. Pretty cool basses.



Nothing "girly" about it....plenty of us around here that rock a pink Precision!

 

Oh my GAS! I gotta get out....

 

It's a CIJ model, I think it was called a Paisley or Blue Flower '54 Precision RI, not actually a Telecaster. A bit odd since the Paisley and BF finishes were originally found on '68 Tele basses, though the Teles were slab bodied and these are contoured like the mid '50s Ps. They were only sold in japan for the first few years they were made, and then sold for a few more in the US through regular Fender distributors, fairly cheap and real bargains for the sound and feel they have.

Basswood bodies, very resonant, with a huge wide SC tone, rock hard polyester finishes, nice not too chunky B width necks, and two saddle string through the body bridges.

I've owned two Paisleys, both were lovely instruments with a drop of neck dive, nothing serious. They elicited more positive comments on their looks than any other bass I've owned, by all kinds of people, male, female, musicians and laymen. I just couldn't really find a place for a SCPB in my musical situations, I prefer the attack, focus and grunt of a split coil P to the huge bottom and bigger high mids and highs of the single coil PUP.

 

I use a Lace Alumitone humbucker pickup in a single coil P bass and it covers the type of tone and attack of the split coil pickup. This Alumitone was originally designed for a Strat guitar so it fits in the original cavity. I was surprised how loud and punchy it is with no noise.

 

they're awesome. I'd rock either And MIJs are excellent quality.

 

Pink paisley rocks , go for it !!!

 

A blue flower just went for $534 on eBay a coupla days ago. I wish I'd have bought it. If I were you I'd pick this one up.
LDD

 

Cripes... buy it!

 

One other thing: the output jacks on these are a bit bigger due to metric sizing and the plugs might fall out sometimes. On one I swapped it for a Swithcraft, on the other I just bent the pin a bit.

Be careful if you like anchoring your thumb on the PUP, as they are fragile and will break if you do this too much.

Finally, these PUPs are extremely sensitive to the distance from the strings and a little tweaking has drastic results for good or bad. have fun with it, these are massive sounding basses that are really fun to play!

 

well considering its an actual fender, $500 is worth it and as for the fact u found it hard to look up online im guessing its rare (cause it is japaneese aswell) so if anything it should have sentamental value within itself too.

buy it and i garuntee u will get atleast $800 on ebay

 

Unless sirspoogesalot plans on paying you $800.00, I wouldn't count on a guaranteed sale for that much. IMHO $500-600 is what most of them sell for.

Also note, if the P Bass you borrowed had a split coil PU, it will have a different tone and more noise due to PU design.

I have a CIJ '51 re-issue. Nice bass but a separate animal from a split coil P.

Just my .02