Sherwood Green Precision bass

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I just finished a project and I'm pretty pleased with the result. It's a Precision bass built to my liking, but I wasn't aiming for a specific year while building it.
Now, when it's finished, I started doing some research but it's hard to get any conclusive answers on the internet.
Question is, did Fender ever make a bass like this?

It's a Sherwood Green alder body with a rosewood slab board on a maple neck and a transition logo. If it ever existed I figure it must have been a mid sixties thing, but did the transition logo and Sherwood Green custom color ever happen in the same year? And did all custom color basses have matching headstocks?

If anybody knows the answer I bet they're here!
 

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- Slab board P basses were built from late '58 to early '63.
- Sherwood Green became available as a custom colour in '60 and remained so throughout rest of the slab board period.
- The transition logo was introduced in '60 and was standard into the CBS takeover in the mid '60s.

As a result, there is a chance that a slab-board Sherwood Green transition logo P bass was built between '60 and '63. I recall seeing one listed at a dealer a few decades back, but I'm unsure if it was original or had been refinished.

Also, the matching headstock for custom colours was an option. There are many examples of vintage custom colour basses with plain headstocks.
 
- Slab board P basses were built from late '58 to early '63.
- Sherwood Green became available as a custom colour in '60 and remained so throughout rest of the slab board period.
- The transition logo was introduced in '60 and was standard into the CBS takeover in the mid '60s.

As a result, there is a chance that a slab-board Sherwood Green transition logo P bass was built between '60 and '63. I recall seeing one listed at a dealer a few decades back, but I'm unsure if it was original or had been refinished.

Also, the matching headstock for custom colours was an option. There are many examples of vintage custom colour basses with plain headstocks.
Thanks a lot! :hyper:
 
Great looking bass. I just think some colors go better with certain basses. I think the Sherwood Green looks outstanding on a P bass. Don't think it looks great on a Jazz. Just the opposite, I love CAR on a Jazz, but don't think it is that great on a P bass.
 
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Wow! That looks great. Love the green. I've been planning a green P-bass project as well. I envision the green slightly darker with a very little bit of sparkle added.
 
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- Slab board P basses were built from late '58 to early '63.
- Sherwood Green became available as a custom colour in '60 and remained so throughout rest of the slab board period.
- The transition logo was introduced in '60 and was standard into the CBS takeover in the mid '60s.

As a result, there is a chance that a slab-board Sherwood Green transition logo P bass was built between '60 and '63. I recall seeing one listed at a dealer a few decades back, but I'm unsure if it was original or had been refinished.

Also, the matching headstock for custom colours was an option. There are many examples of vintage custom colour basses with plain headstocks.
Slab is mid 59 onwards to about july 62.

Transition logo is mid 1964
 
Dang, that is a fine looking bass, love the color and combo with rosewood neck and tort. If Fender didn't make one, they should have. I have a project in the works making a new Jazz neck for an MIM P Bass I refinned that has a borked P neck. It would be cheaper just to buy a licensed J neck, but where's the fun in that? I'll probably put a Fender J decal on it, the Fender Police can shoot me if I ever try to sell it represented as genuine. I won't, of course, since I have a conscience. I'll put something unmistakably non-Fender on the heel for good measure.
 
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I just finished a project and I'm pretty pleased with the result. It's a Precision bass built to my liking, but I wasn't aiming for a specific year while building it.
Now, when it's finished, I started doing some research but it's hard to get any conclusive answers on the internet.
Question is, did Fender ever make a bass like this?

It's a Sherwood Green alder body with a rosewood slab board on a maple neck and a transition logo. If it ever existed I figure it must have been a mid sixties thing, but did the transition logo and Sherwood Green custom color ever happen in the same year? And did all custom color basses have matching headstocks?

If anybody knows the answer I bet they're here!
That’s the best fender colour, imo. Yours looks great!!
 
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