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Show Your Discontinued or Rare Finishes.
- Thread starter Hawkeye
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You might ask what is special about a natural P bass? Well, as far as I know, these where the only natural MIM P basses. They where a special edition for GC.... which means none where available in Canada.
I had to smuggle it over the boarder disguised as a hockey stick
No, just kidding. It was brazenly shipped across the border!
I had to smuggle it over the boarder disguised as a hockey stick
No, just kidding. It was brazenly shipped across the border!
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Not many purple stingrays around...
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Not many purple stingrays around...
Not rare, but this was the last year Fender offered LPB as a standard color (for now at least).
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Nice old thread somebody resurrected! OK, I'm cheating, but only a little. SX has not gotten rid of LPB but sometime after they changed the headstock, they darkened it. I have never had any of my old headstock, old LPB basses next to a Fender but IMO, the old LPB is closer to the real thing.
Nice old thread somebody resurrected! OK, I'm cheating, but only a little. SX has not gotten rid of LPB but sometime after they changed the headstock, they darkened it. I have never had any of my old headstock, old LPB basses next to a Fender but IMO, the old LPB is closer to the real thing.
Curious, do you like LPB SX basses by any chance?
Curious, do you like LPB SX basses by any chance?
Ummmmmm, give me a minute to think about it.
It's not necessarily my favorite color but you gotta admit, it's a nice one. What first got my attention was the fact that it was the only SX bass rondo sold with a matching headstock. Apparently, however, it wasn't one of the best-selling colors because, next thing I know, kurt had dropped the price of a couple lpbs to $99. The rest, the rest as they say is history. I have what I believe to be a complete set of rondo SX long scale basses.
And before somebody asks, there are NO duplicates in my set. The ones without inlays are fretless, and the second one from the left on the back row is a P body (rondo called it a 5 string P).
Inca Silver 55-01
Azurglo '73 4001
I don't think this color is available anymore.
Nice basses , what are these PUs on the Lakland
1980 Rickenbacker 4001 Burgandyglo (discontinued color)
1983 Rickenbacker 4080/12 Jetglo w/ black trc & pickguards (1 of 3)
1991 Rickenbacker 4001V63CS (#15 of less than 1,000)
1983 Rickenbacker 4080/12 Jetglo w/ black trc & pickguards (1 of 3)
1991 Rickenbacker 4001V63CS (#15 of less than 1,000)
'78 Antigua Jazz
Capri Orange CIJ P-bass (I put the original bridge back on it a couple of weeks ago, this pic is older.)
Shell Pink Mark Hoppus (heavily Frankensteined)
'74 Walnut/Mocha/Root Beer brown P-bass
Cherry Sunburst '83 P-bass Elite I Gold
I also have a see-through green ash Elite I, but I have to take a decent picture of the thing.
'78 Antigua Jazz
Capri Orange CIJ P-bass (I put the original bridge back on it a couple of weeks ago, this pic is older.)
Shell Pink Mark Hoppus (heavily Frankensteined)
'74 Walnut/Mocha/Root Beer brown P-bass
Cherry Sunburst '83 P-bass Elite I Gold
I also have a see-through green ash Elite I, but I have to take a decent picture of the thing.
I must say you got some rare Fenders in there
Don't know if it's exactly rare, but Fender only builds the Midnight Blue basses every now and then. They're not that easy to find.
