New Bass Day

[mapleglo]

Just picked up this 1969 Fender Telecaster bass with OHSC, all original.

Only mod seems to be in that last picture. A previous owner installed a second strap button on the back of the upper horn. I'll likely remove it. Other than that, it's all original, plays great, weighs 8.3 pounds, sounds wonderful. Of course, I'll have to learn how to play a 4 string again as I've been only playing 5 string basses for the past 10 years. But I saw this bass and couldn't resist its charm. I had to have it.

 

[Angry Mob With Pitchfork]

As someone who lives in OZ and don’t come across one of these often, I always enjoy seeing good vintage bass acquisitions on TB. Nice score and happy for ya!

 

[Barticus]

Just picked up this 1969 Fender Telecaster bass with OHSC, all original.

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Only mod seems to be in that last picture. A previous owner installed a second strap button on the back of the upper horn. I'll likely remove it. Other than that, it's all original, plays great, weighs 8.3 pounds, sounds wonderful. Of course, I'll have to learn how to play a 4 string again as I've been only playing 5 string basses for the past 10 years. But I saw this bass and couldn't resist its charm. I had to have it.

That’s cool!
Congrats

 

[alembicbones]

Very cool bass, nice score!

Bones

 

[mapleglo]

Thanks! Yeah, I saw it, and thought it was really cool, and had to have it. It was on the pricy side, but I thought "you only live once". Playing it just now, I realized it has flat-wound strings. I haven't owned a bass with flats in 40 years. It's kinda cool though. I may leave them on for a while.

You don't see too many vintage Tele basses. Plenty of Precisions, Jazz basses, but few Tele basses. I like it.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Nice. I used to have its later version with the neck humbucker, two of those basses, actually, both from 1972. IIRC, they had rather fat necks. First one I got around 1975-76 and I turned it fretless for a while upon hearing Unorthodox Behaviour when it came out in '76.

The second one I got in late 1977 when I straight traded my Gibson Ripper to a fellow bassist in another Top 40/Disco band while we were doing a weeklong gig at the Ramada Inn in Marietta, Ohio. His band was playing at the Holiday Inn across the street.

 

[Bass4ThePublic]

Happy NBD! 69 is a great year for fender. I also recently purchased a scpb, they’re so fun!

 

[Matt Liebenau]

Looks wonderful. One of the few 4 strings I still play, rather then just have around, is the third bass I mostly built with a black limba body, Warmoth neck and one of the Fender SCPB pickup reissues from the 90s. In other words, I like them.

 

[Prodigus Filius]

Nice buy

 

[scuzzy]

Bruh ... Nice

 

[Moving Pictures]

That is very sweet! I like it.

Congratulations on the new bass!

 

[mapleglo]

Thanks everyone! I was playing for a while last night. Wow, what a bass! It plays so nice, I'm real happy with this bass. I hesitate to gig with it, but I think I'm going to. It just looks and sounds so great.

 

[bassdude51]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[2saddleslab]

Just picked up this 1969 Fender Telecaster bass with OHSC, all original.

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Only mod seems to be in that last picture. A previous owner installed a second strap button on the back of the upper horn. I'll likely remove it. Other than that, it's all original, plays great, weighs 8.3 pounds, sounds wonderful. Of course, I'll have to learn how to play a 4 string again as I've been only playing 5 string basses for the past 10 years. But I saw this bass and couldn't resist its charm. I had to have it.

Huge congrats, @mapleglo! TB's newest slabebrity.

I've owned a couple late 60's blonde Tele basses back in the mid 80's. It was while stumbling onto an alternative country band that I first experienced a Tele bass, and I was hooked at 1st sight.

 

[Kubicki Fan]

Dogs must be walked.
Basses have to be played.

Thanks everyone! I was playing for a while last night. Wow, what a bass! It plays so nice, I'm real happy with this bass. I hesitate to gig with it, but I think I'm going to. It just looks and sounds so great.

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Nice score! It's in great shape for it's age (wish I could say the same). Play it! Case Queens wither and die from sheer loneliness.

 

[Pdaddy1978]

Beauty!
That Tele has been taking crazy good care of!

 

[P. Aaron]

Very cool. Congrats.

 

[5StringBlues]

Beauty

 

[tris66]

Mmmmmm, yummy!