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THE HORROR THAT IS EBAY!!!!

#4
Eveytime I comment on one of these I state I'm not a Fender man.
If it were one in 20, wouldn't it be marked? Were the necks 4 bolt back then or 3? Where's the serial #. Are the strings the originals? Looks like it hasn't been played in a long time. Why only Britan?
I could be wrong but I'm waving the BS flag.
We just had a discussion the other day about Fender "Slab" instruments, I didn't know they were made in Maple and from the picture that doesn't look like one to me. The picture where the headstock meet the neck looks like one piece to me and the fingerboard looks rounded. So......
 
#5
eBay is not a horror, but some of the people who sell on it are. This guy is either fully knowledgeable of what he's selling and trying to pull one over on some unknowing slob, or he truely doesn't know what he has to sell. Unfortunately there'll always be people like this on eBay. And there'll always be some idiot who will pay the asking price for it, or worse, but it up higher. The case with all the stickers is pretty cool though.
 
#8
The neck on my P bass looks identical to that ( down to the headstock decal, ok so mines is a vinyl decal that the previous owner slapped on) however when i am coming to list the bass how would u describe that neck ? ( i am talking about the back of the neck, like a sorta vintaged flamaed idea.
 
#9
AxtoOx said:
Eveytime I comment on one of these I state I'm not a Fender man.
If it were one in 20, wouldn't it be marked? Were the necks 4 bolt back then or 3? Where's the serial #. Are the strings the originals? Looks like it hasn't been played in a long time. Why only Britan?
I could be wrong but I'm waving the BS flag.
We just had a discussion the other day about Fender "Slab" instruments, I didn't know they were made in Maple and from the picture that doesn't look like one to me. The picture where the headstock meet the neck looks like one piece to me and the fingerboard looks rounded. So......
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As someone who is a Fender guy,

Those basses are a genuine rarity.

I've seen multiple sources in the past documenting that there were 20 of these basses made by Fender. All were shipped to England. John Entwistle owned a few of them. (Well documented) All were made in 1966. This was an export only model. Other companies had different versions for export as well. Rics of that era had F holes instead of slashes for Brittish export for example.

No, it wouldn't be marked as one of 20. You might see that on something made recently, but not back then from Fender.

Precisions always have 4 bolt necks. They never had 3 bolt necks. You're confusing P basses w/ mid to late 70's Jazz basses.

The neck has a Maple Cap. Quite clear from the pictures as there is no skunk stripe on the back of the neck, and if you look very close you can see the seam just ahead of the nut.

Ofcourse anyone spending that kind of money would be willing to have it independently verified as "genuine". It sure looks correct to me. It may not fetch $45K, but it certainly is worth quite a bit to a collector if it is indeed genuine, as it appears to me to be.
 
#12
savit260 said:
As someone who is a Fender guy,

Those basses are a genuine rarity.

I've seen multiple sources in the past documenting that there were 20 of these basses made by Fender. All were shipped to England. John Entwistle owned a few of them. (Well documented) All were made in 1966. This was an export only model. Other companies had different versions for export as well. Rics of that era had F holes instead of slashes for Brittish export for example.

No, it wouldn't be marked as one of 20. You might see that on something made recently, but not back then from Fender.

Precisions always have 4 bolt necks. They never had 3 bolt necks. You're confusing P basses w/ mid to late 70's Jazz basses.

The neck has a Maple Cap. Quite clear from the pictures as there is no skunk stripe on the back of the neck, and if you look very close you can see the seam just ahead of the nut.

Ofcourse anyone spending that kind of money would be willing to have it independently verified as "genuine". It sure looks correct to me. It may not fetch $45K, but it certainly is worth quite a bit to a collector if it is indeed genuine, as it appears to me to be.
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Sounds reasonable. That's why I always say I'm not a Fender man. After I posted the skunk stripe was giving me some trouble.
 
#14
Its a shame the seller didnt spend as much time figuring out how to use the HTML option when hosting and posting his own pics as he did on describing his $45,000 slab

He's had an offer too - but it aint anywhere near $45k though
 
#18
I think its main value is as a collectible. Should pretty much sound like a 66 P. If you really want the look, I would wonder if warmoth couldn't do you a P body with no contours and a tighter edge radius.
 
#19
Yeah, $45,000 is a bit much, but I wouldn't call it a beat-up piece of crap. The people who are going to buy this are collectors. They look at it as an investment. They're not going to play it or use it. It's going to hang on their wall until they find someone who willl pay more for it.
 

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