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For sale:

Genuine 1971 Fender Precision neck with fretless rosewood fretboard.

The neck is in great condition, used but very neat.
Truss rod works in both ways.

Nut width is 41.3 mm,

Neck stamp says; 5 02 71

Comes including the original tuners and string tree.

I believe this neck was fretted original, the side dots are in the right position,

so it should be easy for a luthier to install frets again.

£525

Can be shipped save and secure for £20

sold



 

Edited by Aero71
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Why do you think it was originally fretted? I couldn’t see any lines where the frets would have been removed from. Any close ups?

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I imagine it's a replacement fretboard as opposed to a very good de-fret. As I said, it could just possibly be original, a custom order perhaps, but if so I've never seen one like it. 

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Looking at the thinness of the fretboard in the end-on photo, I'd say it's likely the board was planed when the frets were pulled to remove the slots. They are normally thicker than that.

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Think it's just been shaved a few times to be honest, occupation hazard with a rosewood board, I suspect you'd still see where the frets were if it had been shaved to remove the fret slots.  

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My factory US precision fretless has side dots between the notes, bloody annoying to be honest, and there's a thread about it on somewhere. I think the upshot of that thread was that they make the necks, dots and all, and then a few of them are destined to be f/less. No idea if that was the case in '71 though, more your area of expertise WoT?

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These are mid fret dots, both fretboard dots and side dots, so there would be no problem if you decide to get it fretted again. 

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I would worry the same, sadly.  Radius looks a bit odd to me, too.

I wonder if you can re-board a neck.  Something I'm sure one of BC's ultra clever luthierie would know - just not something I'd thought about previously.

Or maybe just enjoy a fretless 1971 P neck!  Lovely grain on that Rosewood.

Edited by Tonteee
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You can definitely re-board it.  I had Brook Guitars in Devon convert a maple boarded P to an ebony unlined fretless and they did an amazing job - even kept the original nut!

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