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The 1st ever made Precision Bass
- Thread starter no_pops
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Depends on what one considers low. I was offered a stack knob Jazz in the early 80's for $2500 which was a bunch of money at the time.
That natural refin is gorgeous.
Looks like the P bass I traded back in 77 for a Stingray. I didn't need to see that pic.
i don't care how rich you are...$2500 is still a lot of money!
Bflat, that's a really hot collection of original precisions! didn't you post a thread of the restoration of that first one a few years ago? i seem to recall that was a really ugly duckling when you first got it, unless of course i'm confusing you with someone else.
JimmyM I restored it in 1999 it was a mess the neck was defretted the rod was broken and the body was stripped the pickup was broken.... everything is original now except the pickguard the finish and the frets all electronics pots cap knobs pickup rewound original bridge and covers are original cost more to restore than I paid for it... October body 11/19/51 neck. I hand cut the pickguard from .062 bakelite...
Detlefs collection is amazing !
A friend loaned me Vol 1 and Vol 2 of his books (which I guess evolved into the one at Amazon), and there are some amazing photos. Real PERTINENT data for Fender historians.
While we're here, I'll post some photos of a 53 that I took a while back - obviously it isn't "100%", but it is still a very cool old slab Blackguard.
Not sure about #1, but I saw #1054 or maybe #1045. It's been a few years ago. It was a low four digit number at Fly By Night music in Neosho, MO. It had steel saddles on the bridge, but the phenolic saddles were in a paper bag tucked under the strings. It was in good playable shape!
The bridge serial numbers were not used in sequential order. They are all over the place, so #0300 can be a bass that was made LATER than #0576, etc. In fact, in Detlefs book he compiled serial numbers, and you'll find ones like serial #0011 were made 5 MONTHS BEFORE serial #0009.
Hard to say when #1045 was made without doing a full inspection.
These old slabbies really are beautiful instruments though.
if i owned that bass i wouldn't change a thing! what a beauty...i'd like to see relic'ers do something that beautiful!
Well, I can't say that it is quite as beautiful, but this one that I did was certainly inspired by that 53 -
you need to take a lighter to that pickguard 
actually that's a pretty good job of relic'ing, dh. at least it looks more natural than most.
actually that's a pretty good job of relic'ing, dh. at least it looks more natural than most.
