Help Identifying P Bass

It's an American Standard Precision Bass from 1999, or 2000 with a changed out pick guard. Everything about the body says "Fender" to me, and the serial number is on the neck, so it seems like it came that way from the factory (other than the pick guard).

 

Nice looking blonde! It's very possible that you don't see the trans white basses out there because there just aren't that many compared to 3ts, natural, black and all the other colors available in '99. You can pull the neck to see if the date on the body and neck are fairly close. One thing is bothering me...why do the pickup pole pieces appear to not be sticking through the covers?

 

https://support.fender.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/115001887303/1999__June_7.pdf

Yep.

 

How many Purple Metallic MIA P basses do you see? Most of the colors besides 3TSB, black, and white were probably pretty rare.

I have a P from around the same time. Lots of dates stamped on the neck and body but the last one was Jan 19 2000. Sunburst/Maple.

 

Also to add, it came with a white pickguard, and if I remember right that might have been all that was offered. But don't quote me on it. I wish I still had the Musicians Friend catalog that I ordered it out of...

 

The electronics are all attached to the pickguard. So just take the strings off, take out the pickguard screws and pickup adjustment screws (with the proper phillips driver, should be a #1) and carefully lift the loaded pickguard off the bass.

 

Pickups aren't attached to the pickguard, and don't have springs under them either. ;-)

 

Really? You have a P with a split-coil pickup mounted to the pickguard? Beyond unusual.

 

Sorry, I made a big mistake here. The pickups are mounted to the body but if you take the adjustment screws out they will come out with the pickguard.

 

I had exactly an white blonde like in your pictures, also N9 serial, ash body with rosewood fretboard. Was medium weight. White pickguard.
No Custom - a bit higher price for ash. (There was no "trans blonde" or "trans white blonde" - they call it: white blonde 801).

 

I have an old Japanese bass that does just that. Can't believe I combined them in my mind like that. It's likely the foam under the pickups has failed in the OP's bass.

 

Lovely bass there.

 

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AMERICAN STANDARD PRECISION BASS® (1995-2000), ROSEWOOD FINGERBOARD, WHITE BLONDE

 

Fine looking bass! I think you should Tort it! (I have a 93 Stingray in Transwhite and I Torted it and never looked back)

 

Nice looking bass. Congrats.