It's Baaack! Pre-CBS Fender Precision mod from hell on CL

[MYLOWFREQ]

When you're on LSD in the 60's..

 

[eldorado2001]

argh!

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

In all seriousness, if the rest of it is original, he could part it out and have close to 2 grand in vintage parts. Tuners, neck, pups, neckplate, pots, bridge. I've seen people doing restorations pay over $800 for the neck alone. That body needs to be used to keep someone warm this winter.

 

[A-Step-Towards]

I emailed that guy last year when I was heading to Arizona that if the neck tested healthy id give me $2000 if all else was original, no reply. I doubt he has had a better offer. Id replace the body with a relic body or maybe if it was a 3 piece body saw off the "wings" keep the center block with neckpocket, pickup route and have new wings glued on, would be more then a new body but....

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I went ahead & checked out the instruments for sale in L.A., & it's no better than where I am on the East coast. Someone was even trying to sell a used Speakon cable for $30. Damn, you can build one for $10 or less.

 

[RED J]

How do you put a value on something like that ? If it fell in my lap, it wouldn't hurt my feelings to put an old relic bod on that and rock it as is. But the body just , just, sheesh. Really when you think about it, it's still going to be a part out with a wrecked body still attached.

 

[RED J]

A-Step's on to something.

 

[Kukulkan61]

The neck and case is all I would want from that Clusterf***..

 

[bassliner50]

Ugly ugly ugly.

 

[cdef]

Believe it or not, time was when a Fender electric bass was not necessarily something to cherish. People sawed them up with no compunctions.

 

[delta7fred]

Ah... then buy it for $46.25 and flip it to Les for $462.50. 90% profit!

I think you missed a zero off, by my reckoning it is 900% profit.

 

[peledog]

What a rip.

 

[gjohnson441496]

Where are the nuts for the ashtray and bridge cover?

 

[Nobody]

Nothing some tort and napalm couldn't fix.

 

[organworthyplayer337]

It reminds me of a squashed spider poor thing, the string action is higher than the Space Needle.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

I think you missed a zero off, by my reckoning it is 900% profit.

I don't think you'd get Les Claypool to pay over $4000 for it!

 

[mongo2]

 

[PortlandBass77]

I emailed that guy last year when I was heading to Arizona that if the neck tested healthy id give me $2000 if all else was original, no reply. I doubt he has had a better offer. Id replace the body with a relic body or maybe if it was a 3 piece body saw off the "wings" keep the center block with neckpocket, pickup route and have new wings glued on, would be more then a new body but....

Or just cut the wings off and you have yourself the first ever vintage Fenderberger.....

Nothing some tort and napalm couldn't fix.

This comment wins the thread. Though I prefer duct tape and WD-40.....

 

[PWRL]

Bondo?

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Certainly alien hairdressers...