"Fender" P Special reliced with a power sander,

[OldGit]

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130269792620&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123"]Sandpaper shirt sleves, I assume ...[/url]

[Hamster]

I don't know who's worse - the sandpaperer or who buys it?

[Clarky]

Now there's mojo ... and there's sh*te

Edit: the most contrived "relic'ing" I 've ever seen

Edited November 22, 2008 by Clarky

[DirkThrust]

It was quite a nice looking bass before that. I've never seen them with the matching headstock before.

Who knows what it is?

[Happy Jack]

Outstanding!

Pics taken with a low-quality camera phone against a black satin bedsheet ... well why would you want to be able to see anything clearly before parting with >£400 for a dodgy bass?

[DirkThrust]

He originally listed this at start price 99p and I placed a bid on it.

I've been after a hot rodded P for a while and I figured that as long as it didn't go for a lot I could refinish it and make something half decent out of it but he cancelled all the bids and relisted it at that price.

I emailed him to get some more info about and questioned his statement that it is old, and I got back a rather snotty and barely literate reply telling me it was definitely made in 1964. Erm...ok

Edited November 22, 2008 by AndyMartin

[Beedster]

[quote name='AndyMartin' post='334308' date='Nov 22 2008, 11:32 AM']He originally listed this at start price 99p and I placed a bid on it.

I've been after a hot rodded P for a while and I figured that as long as it didn't go for a lot I could refinish it and make something half decent out of it but he cancelled all the bids and relisted it at that price.

I emailed him to get some more info about and questioned his statement that it is old, and I got back a rather snotty and barely literate reply telling me it was definitely made in 1964. Erm...ok[/quote]

He's one of those cynical guys who knows that there's someone out there prepared to take the £400+ risk on the off-chance that it's a genuine 1964. I've had two PMs from quite clued-up BC members asking for my opinion on the bass and whether it's worth spending big bucks on. The fact that they couldn't see through it says it all really. I'd say that, despite this thread (and the other on this bass in the bass guitars forum - the one discussing Precisions with matching headstocks), there's still a chance someone on here buys it.
Chances are it is a genuine Fender (an MIM, possibly a Squire), which enables the seller to avoid any post-auction action from the buyer or ebay as, despite not telling anything like the truth, he probably hasn't told any lies, not in writing anyway (that's why he's put his phone number, that way anything he tells you is your word against his.
Steer clear guys, unless you want and expensive MIM
Chris

[simon1964]

Isn't the headstock logo a 60s transition Jazz logo? Certainly doesn't look like a Precision logo.

[Prosebass]

[quote name='simon1964' post='334343' date='Nov 22 2008, 12:08 PM']Isn't the headstock logo a 60s transition Jazz logo? Certainly doesn't look like a Precision logo.[/quote]

I think it is but its in the wrong place as is the string retainer and it don't look right ! but that could be a slight variation
As the Beedster says its probably a MIM but the seller states it is a Precision Neck, with a Jazz Logo ? I think he is confusing us......

As is the truss rod adjustment which is at the wrong end for an early Jazz / Precision whatever !

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Edited November 22, 2008 by Prosebass

[Delberthot]

I noticed the Jazz bass logo on the headstock as well - a real p bass of that age would be worth a fortune due to the lack of Ps with matching headstocks.

Some people will try anything to sell on a bag of crap

'This bass was used by Jesus before he left the Grateful Dead to form the Devil's Satans' and so on. you get the idea.

[OldGit]

[quote name='Delberthot' post='334392' date='Nov 22 2008, 01:23 PM']'This bass was used by Jesus before he left the Grateful Dead to form the Devil's Satans' and so on. you get the idea.[/quote]

Well that's just daft - Jesus clearly played an acoustic bass as there was no electricity in Palestine until at least 1924.

Edit
Ahh just had Sarah Palin on the phone, apparently there is a mention of electricity in Palestine (or "Israel" as she calls it.) in th year 25 in her version of the bible. And Dan Brown mentions a noiseless Precision in The Da Vinci Code, Chapter 32: "With noiseless Precision, the heavy wall slid sideways..."

Oh hang on, I can see how Jesus may have existed, and played bass, but a noiseless Precision?

Edited November 22, 2008 by OldGit

[MB1]

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='334286' date='Nov 22 2008, 10:53 AM']Outstanding!

Pics taken with a low-quality camera phone against a black satin bedsheet ... well why would you want to be able to see anything clearly before parting with >£400 for a dodgy bass?[/quote]

MB1.
Probably not the First Time he's had sh*t on his bedsheets!....Me thinks?.

[OldGit]

Oh dear, He has a bid .....

[Delberthot]

That's so f***ing funny if you'll excuse my francaise

[DirkThrust]

Received this reply from him


"Hi there serial number 82270 and the neck has clay dots I will take the neck of I was told it was stamped why I have stated of at that money I took in for the money for someone studio time which they no money to pay me"

[Sean]

Well, he got his £400.

Someone really got burned bad there.

I got this when I asked about the logo on the neck and the extra pup

"hi there i don't no it just how i got it but sound great"

Edited November 22, 2008 by Sean

[deaver]

Its back again [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Precision-Relic_W0QQitemZ130270871166QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item130270871166&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318"]Relic[/url]

[markytbass]

yea, starting at 99p hmmmm.

[bremen]

[quote name='markytbass' post='334643' date='Nov 22 2008, 11:12 PM']yea, starting at 99p hmmmm.[/quote]

I just emailed him asking what happened to the guy that 'won' it for £400.

[Beedster]

[quote name='bremen' post='334679' date='Nov 23 2008, 12:26 AM']I just emailed him asking what happened to the guy that 'won' it for £400.[/quote]

I think we all want to know the answer to that. Most likely he won it himself....

[OldGit]

[quote name='Beedster' post='334727' date='Nov 23 2008, 09:37 AM']I think we all want to know the answer to that. Most likely he won it himself....[/quote]

or someone shot him a quick note ...

[MB1]

[quote name='Beedster' post='334727' date='Nov 23 2008, 09:37 AM']I think we all want to know the answer to that. Most likely he won it himself....[/quote]

MB1.
Lucky Boy!
"youve made your bed!...now lie in it....Literally!

[thebeat]

God loves a tryer

[Paul Cooke]

anyone live close and can drop in to visit him and take him up on his offer to have a play on it??? It's not like he's in that weird eBay zone called the outer hebrides where most of the really dodgy bases get sold from...

[Beedster]

[quote name='Paul Cooke' post='334989' date='Nov 23 2008, 04:56 PM']anyone live close and can drop in to visit him and take him up on his offer to have a play on it??? It's not like he's in that weird eBay zone called the outer hebrides where most of the really dodgy bases get sold from...[/quote]

Judging from his responses, I think issues relating to personal safety might might take precendence