Vintage Fenders

[Reggaebass]

Very nice indeed, congrats 

[ossyrocks]

3 hours ago, SurroundedByManatees said:

NBD:

 

Refin '65 Jazz. It's an awesome playing and sounding instrument.  It has the most beautiful tort pickguard. It still has a brazilian rosewood fretboard, but pearl dots. The pots date to week 12 of 1965.

 

 

It appears to be all original, except for a refinish and the screws that hold down the pickup covers (not pictured).

 

Added nerd pictures that show how thoroughly the finish is stripped. There is no single sign to find of the previous (sunburst probably) finish that it started with. Or it started out as a blonde finish,  which seems unlikely.

 

In one of the pictures you see the round routermark on the back, which is also present near the back strapbutton.  The square marking in the neckpocket is also a sign of authenticity.

 

 

 

It's a pretty light bass too, that was an important feature on the checklist.

 

Lovely, congratulations.

[SurroundedByManatees]

For those interested; I gave it a shot with a UV light that I had lying around for ages and that just resurfaced a few weeks ago. It still works

 

Pictures are not very good as it's hard to take sharp pictures, but it gives an overall idea. There are darker areas visible where you can expect usual where. So I assume the Lacquer has been touched up there at one point. The grain of the alder is also visible faintly.

 

I'll give it another try at later on, and will examine my other basses the same way. It's quite fun I think.

 

[GuyR]

That’s a great score. If it plays as good as it looks, it’s a winner.

 

Very good pictures too!

Edited April 10 by GuyR

[Stub Mandrel]

3 hours ago, SurroundedByManatees said:

For those interested; I gave it a shot with a UV light that I had lying around for ages and that just resurfaced a few weeks ago. It still works

 

Pictures are not very good as it's hard to take sharp pictures, but it gives an overall idea. There are darker areas visible where you can expect usual where. So I assume the Lacquer has been touched up there at one point. The grain of the alder is also visible faintly.

 

I'll give it another try at later on, and will examine my other basses the same way. It's quite fun I think.

 

 

Fascinating! I've just run around with my UV torch.. one weird thing, some 'white' walls look terrible under uv! The basses all look matt under uv!

 

Mid-80s Maya with cracked off poly.

 

 

Mid 80's sunburst Fender Performer turned daphne blue!

 

1950s mandolin showing clear wear

 

Nitro finished snd slightly reliced kit I made during covid shows wear not visible to naked eye (only the bright bit is visible)

 

1960s Kay/Teisco doesn’t show many secrets!

 

[SurroundedByManatees]

That's a cool session! That performer bass would actually look great in Daphne Blue. 

Surprisingly how dark your nitro finished bass shows, but from what I've read the lacquers "load" with time.

[Stub Mandrel]

15 hours ago, SurroundedByManatees said:

That performer bass would actually look great in Daphne Blue. 

 

It is cool! The dark one actually IS daphne blue!

[Mrbigstuff]

Check out this beauty! This is my second favourite pre CBS colour combo after black with matching h/s:

https://bassbros.co.uk/product/1964-fender-jazz-bass/

[Reggaebass]

3 minutes ago, Mrbigstuff said:

Check out this beauty! This is my second favourite pre CBS colour combo after black with matching h/s:

https://bassbros.co.uk/product/1964-fender-jazz-bass/

I saw that, very nice, he’s got a few early ones in at the moment, I like the 63 P but I don’t do refinishes 

[bakerster135]

4 minutes ago, Mrbigstuff said:

Check out this beauty! This is my second favourite pre CBS colour combo after black with matching h/s:

https://bassbros.co.uk/product/1964-fender-jazz-bass/

Oh man, yeah, that's the dream for me 🤤 Had an opportunity to buy a 65 with the same colour configuration for significantly less money about seven years ago, but couldn't quite stretch to it as our son was on the way...Barring a windfall, I don't think there's any chance I'll ever be able to get hold of one now with the prices the custom colour ones go for 😭

[GuyR]

Clay dots and LPB is a combination you don’t see very often. The neck pocket with the original unfaded colour shows how vivid the original finishes were.

 

Very lovely. Seems all the money, will be interesting to see how quickly it sells.

[rwillett]

Seems a lot of money but it does look very nice. I actually like the colour the body has faded to rather than the blue on the headstock.

 

I don't seem to have won the Planet Rock pay out this week so I'll just have to wait until next week.

Rpb

[Burns-bass]

Looks nice.

 

Another: all original (except for the changed hits) listing, but cool anyway.

[briansbrew]

3 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

Looks nice.

 

Another: all original (except for the changed hits) listing, but cool anyway.

There was a guy who had a 74 Precision on Ebay recently, pots, pickups and guard changed and no covers, all original apart from that says he. It either is all original without any changes, then it becomes non original once things have been replaced...

[Burns-bass]

50 minutes ago, briansbrew said:

There was a guy who had a 74 Precision on Ebay recently, pots, pickups and guard changed and no covers, all original apart from that says he. It either is all original without any changes, then it becomes non original once things have been replaced...

I’m sure I’m as guilty as anyone of doing it. Bet if you go through my old listings I’ve done it!
 

At least BB acknowledge it and provide a clear listing with good photos.

 

Can’t imagine paying all that for a bass but if it makes someone happy, why not.

[briansbrew]

4 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

I’m sure I’m as guilty as anyone of doing it. Bet if you go through my old listings I’ve done it!
 

At least BB acknowledge it and provide a clear listing with good photos.

 

Can’t imagine paying all that for a bass but if it makes someone happy, why not.

probably the same here at some stage in the past

[Burns-bass]

6 minutes ago, briansbrew said:

probably the same here at some stage in the past

I described a pre cbs jazz bass here as mint and it wasn’t. That was fair enough.

 

The fact we acknowledge the changes is better than ignoring them (which I’ve experienced before!)

[Mrbigstuff]

5 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

Looks nice.

 

Another: all original (except for the changed hits) listing, but cool anyway.

Yeh it’s annoying but fair play for listing. I’m sure there’s plenty that wouldn’t on a rewound pickup.

 

edit: just seen your similar post further up. Note to self, read the whole thread before commenting!

Edited Thursday at 21:51 by Mrbigstuff

[SurroundedByManatees]

Sometimes you see people listing a bass as a "65 Jazz per example, and tell how you hear 60 years of ageing back in the sound. Reading further it appears only the body and tuners are original. 

 

I understand when a seller would say "all original apart from (enter a maximum of 1 or 2 aspects)".

It makes less sense when the list of changed parts is bigger than the list of original parts. 

[SurroundedByManatees]

8 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

I described a pre cbs jazz bass here as mint and it wasn’t. That was fair enough.

 

When people list a bass saying mint condition, I'm always looking for the smallest damages😁. Usually there are obvious small damages, even visible on low quality pictures.