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'58 P -

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This is truly distressing - 2023 Fender "66 Jazz bass"... headstock as ashtray ~

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1966 Fender Jazz Bass Olympic White colour coded Headstock Re-issue 2023 USA | eBay

When Don Randall at Fender Sales requested a more sophisticated, high-end bass model, the now iconic Jazz Bass® was the result. The neck was narrower at the nut, providing a faster and more effortless feel and the sleek new body style mirrored the offset contoured style of the Jazzmaster®.
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#7,010
wongahcheng

Thread 'NBD: 1980 Fender Precision Special, and what to restore?'

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Hi! Recently acquired my oldest bass to date from 1980 (previously it was my 2000 Thunderbird) in, I would say, not at its best condition? But I just couldn't pass it for the price the seller was asking for. Looked up some information on it since I never heard of this model, turned out that it's Fender's first attempt at active basses. I am thinking to restore this bass to be used as a workhorse, and also as an alternative to my shorter scales Fenders. However, the one that I got has the following issues that I have noticed so far;
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Ricky Caboverde said:
I’m awaiting the delivery of this mongrel. I think it’s a mid 70s jazz body with early 70s Pbass fretless maple neck. Seller didn’t know that much about it, so I’ll be taking it apart to see what’s what.

Any advice on cleaning the germs without messing up what’s left of the finish?

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It appears to have originally came with the three screw neck-plate with tilt-adjuster port and someone installed a standard 4 screw plate. Pick-guard looks suspect also and I'm wondering about the control plate area which has a ghost of a larger, curved plate. ?

Isopropyl alcohol is usually good for cleaning/'disinfecting' the finish. When I got my '66 P it required a lot of this and it cleaned right up. There may be areas where the finish feels 'soft', so just clean off as much as possible in those areas and it should be fine.

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JIO said:
It appears to have originally came with the three screw neck-plate with tilt-adjuster port and someone installed a standard 4 screw plate. Pick-guard looks suspect also and I'm wondering about the control plate area which has a ghost of a larger, curved plate. ?

Isopropyl alcohol is usually good for cleaning/'disinfecting' the finish. When I got my '66 P it required a lot of this and it cleaned right up. There may be areas where the finish feels 'soft', so just clean off as much as possible in those areas and it should be fine.

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Thanks for the helpful reply. Alcohol certainly seemed to do the trick just fine.

I was told that the control plate was original (I sure hope so. That as well as the pups). So, it seems that the previous owner had installed some custom pickguard/extension which caused the tan line. Good eye! I thought it looked weird, but I didn’t recognize the shape as being part of a pickguard.

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