I see... Thank you.
I will be 42R. Clarinet major!
Just passed all the auditions.
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Scammed?
- Thread starter arteus
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I see... Thank you.
I will be 42R. Clarinet major!
Just passed all the auditions.
Ok, the. You should be able to get instruments shipped to you. You'll probably be doing a fair amount of touring, but I'm sure having instruments shipped to you will not be a problem. Although, I am picturing basics when the drill seargent asks what your MOS is. Private clarinet where are you?
Yeah yeah, i already get made fun of 6 months before my actual boot camp. Wonder how it would be at the actual camp.
Basics is all a head game. You will make it through, just go with it. Put your brain in neutral and just accept it. When you look back on those 8 weeks (they tell you 7 but start counting at zero), you'll remember them fondly.
That neck looks right to me. String tree positions can vary. I also can't imagine someone trying to scam someone on a MIM bass. If it was faked, they used a VM neck. What would that have made? An extra $50?
I did a thorough research and fortunately my neck is legit. It's a 95 MIM neck. Back then the serials began with "MN" instead of "MX" like the newer versions. It very rare to see a 22 fret neck with "whole" frets instead of 21 plus the overhang. The original body was the PJ "Cowpoke" design with the telecaster/51pbass pick-guard. I got scared because the when I ran the serial on the fender serial database did not show any results, but it did when i ran my 2010 MIM precision.
I ran three different serials from three different early 90s necks with 22 "whole" frets and same headstock (found here in TB) and neither shown any result in the website. So it's a problem with fender database and not my neck. Also, all three have the same amount of digits in the serial. Bottomline, Fender should update their serial database ASAP.
BTW, I re-did the fretless job . Here is how it looks now, I'll post the entire process in a separate thread .
The "N" in the MN serial number refers to 90s, so your neck should be a '95. "X" is the year 2000. So, serial MX5xxxxx would be a 2005. Here is a 1995 cowpoke, with the same headstock and 22 frets, so everything looks right.
Exactly that's what I found. I got scared AF when the serial number did not appear in the Fender "database" . But after looking further I learned about this cowpoke design and my mind was put to easy hehe
trey le parc
Someday...
3.5 years later, here's an update on V013229. Jimmy Coppolo of Alleva Coppolo owns it now, at least for a couple more weeks. He went through it from stem to stern and discovered the bridge pickup was out of phase, but once he cleaned up the electronics he liked the sound so much he decided to leave it as it is. He also had to do a minor neck repair that involved respraying lacquer, so the Professor did that. Jimmy and Nino think it's the best first generation AVRI they've heard. Jimmy thinks it sounds better than a sweet '61 Jazz he has at the shop right now for repair, which I will pick up tomorrow (it's not mine; it belongs to a Bass San Diego customer). He said it was no comparison. Sadly, according to Jimmy, he's already promised the bass to a good friend. He has some good friends who were at Fender in the 80s and one of them said this is no doubt an authentic Fullerton. I never really doubted it based on the information in this thread, but it's always nice to hear it from the experts! Anyway, if live music ever returns you may see this bass out and about in LA or NYC.
