hooky_lowdown Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 (edited) Mmmmm, one very rare 1969 Mustang... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Mustang-Bass-1969-Competition-Blue-with-Matching-Headstock-Very-Rare/233268219465?hash=item364fde8e49:g:spsAAOSwsuxc2fBh Edited June 24, 2019 by hooky_lowdown 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2x18 Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 The maple neck looks too clean for a 69! - I have a 73 in very good condition but it doesn’t look clean like new as that one does! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigwan Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Beautiful... but suspiciously clean! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus Lukin Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 (edited) - Edited March 3, 2022 by Jus Lukin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooky_lowdown Posted June 25, 2019 Author Share Posted June 25, 2019 Exactly, and no lollipop tuners! Several red flags with this "all original" one. 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger2611 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1971-Fender-Competition-Mustang-Bass-Red-Vintage/323843040138?hash=item4b668ca38a:g:SpAAAOSwmrtc8Bqa There is also this 1971 on the bay at the moment, looking at the two next to each other it does suggest they may be original? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 I think it is genuine. The lollipop tuners were used 1966-68, so the shape of these is correct for '69 and they have Fender embossing in the backplate. Also the Japanese mustangs use gotoh tuners which require smaller holes in the headstock the japanese ones didn't have matching headstocks. On the photo of the back of the headstock the maple looks glossier than I would expect so the back of the neck may have been refinished or oversprayed at some point, but the checking on the front of the headstock looks genuine. To tell with more certainty whether it is a genuine sixties neck we'd need to see a pic of the heel end of the neck - on a 60s/early 70s one the rosewood fingerboard will be curved and appear to be applied like a veneer wrapped over the curved top of the neck (like my '72 musicmaster), whereas on a reissue the fingerboard will have more of a slab appearance - like on my CIJ mustang & JMJ Mustang. There is some checking on the body which suggests a laquer finish rather than the poly finish of the reissues and the hardware has a patina. The pickguard could be a reissue as an old celluloid pearl one would have gassed out and show a nice warm colour, some shrinkage and discolouration under and around the tug bar (like my '72 musicmaster). The mutes on the bridge were never fitted to reissues as far as I am aware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mentalextra Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 Relisted? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Mustang-Bass-1969-Competition-Blue-MH-Very-Rare-Corrected-Listing/233270349081?hash=item364fff0d19:g:spsAAOSwsuxc2fBh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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