I know, it's satire. I was kidding, I hear Portland is a lovely place.
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Red flags, or is it just me? CL content
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I know, it's satire. I was kidding, I hear Portland is a lovely place.
When in doubt, pass it up. Plenty of other basses for sale.
I know, and honestly I'm a little biased since I grew up here. Portland is weird, for sure, especially when I leave the state and compare. Then again, there's Florida. Florida is its own category of strange, for sure.
Far too many uncertainties at that price point.
TBH, even if everything else was certain, the conversion to PJ kills it at that price point for me. My guess is that the seller is hoping an inexperienced buyer will see the word vintage and start to vibrate.
TBH, even if everything else was certain, the conversion to PJ kills it at that price point for me. My guess is that the seller is hoping an inexperienced buyer will see the word vintage and start to vibrate.
As an instrument, if it wasn’t too heavy and played and sounded great, it’d be awesome. It looks stock for a 75-76 Precision apart from the PJ conversion. Tidy, too.
If there were no other dramas I’d be checking it out, especially if it had a B neck. You’ve got to understand these old Fenders sound incredibly good, especially in the studio.
If there were no other dramas I’d be checking it out, especially if it had a B neck. You’ve got to understand these old Fenders sound incredibly good, especially in the studio.
so much wrong information in this thread. P basses never had 3 bolt necks. The tv logo was used in the first half on 76, then they changed over. Everything looks correct besides the modifications noted by the seller. Heck even the pickguard has the correct mid 70s screw pattern.
The compelling reason to buy a 70's Fender is nostalgia - relive your misspent youth with a bass that was there when you were mis-spending it. This bass has been modded to where....it bears none of that.
If nostalgia isn't your thing, and you're looking for a good musical instrument, 70's Fenders are the wrong place to start looking. Your odds are much better elsewhere.
If nostalgia isn't your thing, and you're looking for a good musical instrument, 70's Fenders are the wrong place to start looking. Your odds are much better elsewhere.
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Well, it is in the zoo area. Where did the battery and preamp hide? There must be a big rout out under the pickguard. And the extra superfluous pickup. And, well, other than that, good to go. It's all yours if you want it. I won't out bid you. Promise.
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I don't see red flags. It's obvious that it's heavily modded and the seller describes all that. Nothing misleading. It's all a question of whether you want to spend that much on that bass. It would be a big no for me, but then I don't consider any 70's Fender to be anything special.
I didn't take the seller's comment to mean it's a Jazz Bass, but that a previous owner had ripped out the Precision pickup and installed Jazz pickups, and the current seller replace those with one Precision and one Jazz pickup.
Sooooooooo....from just a visual inspection (which isnt much), some of it looks legit despite the PJ mod. 76 basses didnt necessarily have a headstock S6 - 1976 was the transition year. Sometimes theres even a S/N S6XXXXXX sticker under the pickguard.....However, >$2000 is more than twice of what I would pay for a some-of-it-looks-legit modded Fender
I'm no expert, but the body and headstock seem amazingly pristine for a 47 year old. Maybe it's been a closet queen for many of those years. But then, why would it be modded if it was barely played?
Yeah, I lived in Portland for 10 years. The reputation it has earned over the years (ranging from a shiny hipster utopia to a wreck of a city burnt to the ground) has been totally inconsistent with the reality of living there. It's a fine city, it has its issues but show me a city that doesn't.
are you insinuating that the seller is a TB member?
