Don't know how bad this wear is and what it would cost to fix it...what do you guys and gals think? Fender American Standard Jazz Bass 2 Color Sunburst Thanks for your info.
American Standards are nice basses IME - never owned one but played several and did like them - but they are not exactly rare and I'm reasonably certain that you can do better price-wise. Patience is a virtue. My $0.02 only...
Thanks, George. I have seen them for less, but I was wondering about the fret wear...I have never played a bass to the point there was noticable fret wear, so my question was more towards "what do you do to fix it?
“Minimal” fret ware is no big deal, but needing a fret leveling and crowning really soon means about a $200 price drop.
Thanks...I don't know anything about fret wear but, if it's minimal, I can only think that it been listed for nine months, on consignment, with no incentive to sell?
Well, the price has supposedly been lowered if I'm reading the ad correctly and it's still more than I would pay for that bass...
IMO, that one has minimal fret wear and shouldn't really have an effect on the price, albeit he's asking a bit too much for it. a slight level, recrown and polish of the frets would make it pretty much like new and shouldn't cost more than $120 to do by a competent luthier. unless they know how to do it properly, i wouldn't recommend having it done though, since many repairmen/luthiers that i've seen take too much off of the frets and it would've been better to just leave them alone.
Yeah, price too high. Reverb lets you make offers though and since its been on there for 9 months they may be willing to take less.
Fret wear is minimal, don't worry about it. At most you'd want to get the frets level (part of a set up), and it'll be good for many years.
levelling etc should cost a LOT less than that. And if you learn to do it yourself... a lot less it's not a big deal.
Way too much money, I would offer her $800 and she pays shipping. I'm pretty sure that's a woman's thumb in the picture.
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