Show your "Funk Machine"

[Ric5]

Show your "Funk Machine"

 

[pbass888]

 

[DJ Bebop]

Funky Funk Machines

 

[timmus]

Mine...1983 Fullerton AVRI '59 (I've been told). Fender 5020 flats and sounds SO funky. I don't have foam in the bridge area right now but it only takes a second to pop one in.

 

[FatOwlBass]

My "Funk machine" is actually listed here for sale. It sounds as good as any P bass I have ever played and the neck feels like a good Jazz bass. Growl, grunt, Punchy p bass funk!

 

[Matthew_84]

The original for me.

1963 P, owned since 1967, repainted about 1970, a couple years later the truss rod broke and I had to replace the neck for a gig. Unchanged since 1972, every screw, wire and piece of hardware original. Flatwound strings installed about 1972 and never changed.

If you can't funk with this, you ain't funkin' at all.

Man, I have always wanted a “forever bass”. A P Bass with flats that I had for decades showing all of its playing and stories along the way… This thread (and posts like this) aren’t helping. She’s a beauty.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

My midrange monster.

 

[Scott Bland]

My Mike Lull is the new Funk Machine of love.

 

[Mike Vee]

Your bass 40 years in the past.
New pots and tort. All else is OGView attachment 4751403

absolutely drool worthy

 

[Mantis Tobaggan]

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

My gigging band plays blues and classic rock and our singer/BL is adamant about not playing disco, funk, or anything that's purely dance music.

So... all the good stuff?

 

[The Owl]

Here's mine, bringing the funk since 2016

 

[conttador]

Here’s my funky bunch!

 

[5StringBlues]

Mine...1983 Fullerton AVRI '59 (I've been told). Fender 5020 flats and sounds SO funky. I don't have foam in the bridge area right now but it only takes a second to pop one in.

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A Fullerton would be a '57 or a '62 reissue. Rosewood board, yours should be a '62.

 

[Wade Craver]

76 and 73 fender precisions

 

[timmus]

A Fullerton would be a '57 or a '62 reissue. Rosewood board, yours should be a '62.

Maybe I can finally put this mystery to rest. Did the 62 come with a gold ano PG? This one had it when I bought it from an old codger that said it was on it when he bought it new but I've never seen one with the ano PG. It also has the proverbial Fullerton bump in the lower cutaway. Do the 62's have that bump? Serial Number is V016XXX.

 

[5StringBlues]

Maybe I can finally put this mystery to rest. Did the 62 come with a gold ano PG? This one had it when I bought it from an old codger that said it was on it when he bought it new but I've never seen one with the ano PG. It also has the proverbial Fullerton bump in the lower cutaway. Do the 62's have that bump?

I think both have the bump. I know the Jazz reissue has it.


The '57s came with the gold guard, the '62s came with tort. But 57s had maple boards and the 62s were rosewood.


So I have no idea what's going on!

 

[hennessybass]

 

[Viggo51]

 

[5StringBlues]

Maybe I can finally put this mystery to rest. Did the 62 come with a gold ano PG? This one had it when I bought it from an old codger that said it was on it when he bought it new but I've never seen one with the ano PG. It also has the proverbial Fullerton bump in the lower cutaway. Do the 62's have that bump? Serial Number is V016XXX.

If you can post some pics here Fender Fullerton Reissue club | TalkBass.com , there are cats in there that should be able to help nail it down.