Vintage Fenders

[Reggaebass]

This is a strange one on reverb 

[mowf]

Wow. That’s disgusting. And wildly overpriced.

[Reggaebass]

Can’t believe someone would do that to a 61 jazz, it’s not even nice 😁

[Reggaebass]

I enquired about this one when it was first listed, should be interesting to see what it goes for 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304421939691?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=8k7fKvkMSE2&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=1wDkd4CjTIi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[Reggaebass]

What could have happened with the finish on this 🤔

https://reverb.com/uk/item/52931875-super-vintage-1977-fender-jazz-bass-sunburst-100-original

[mike f]

13 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

What could have happened with the finish on this 🤔

https://reverb.com/uk/item/52931875-super-vintage-1977-fender-jazz-bass-sunburst-100-original

Gravy! 

[Mokl]

Weird, but I kinda like it - from that pic at least.

 

[ezbass]

2 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

What could have happened with the finish on this 🤔

https://reverb.com/uk/item/52931875-super-vintage-1977-fender-jazz-bass-sunburst-100-original

Weird matching headstock, nicotine staining?

[Piers_Williamson]

A Player's Capstan bass rather than a Player's bass?

 

[Reggaebass]

44 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Weird matching headstock, nicotine staining?

 

44 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Weird matching headstock, nicotine staining?

I thought that but it seems to be the whole bass, even the block inlays 

[Woodinblack]

Isnt that one of the late 70s walnut P Basses? The bodies later on went on to be the first used in the P Bass ultras / ultra IIs at the end of the 70s

 

[Reggaebass]

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

Isnt that one of the late 70s walnut P Basses? The bodies later on went on to be the first used in the P Bass ultras / ultra IIs at the end of the 70s

 

I’m not sure Woodin, it looks like it has the black border around the edge like it used to be sunburst , but I could be wrong 🙂

[Woodinblack]

I guess that base wood seems a bit light for walnut, it was around the time they were doing them.

Must be just a mudburst!

 

[LukeFRC]

smoke damage from a fire? 

[AndyTravis]

Bet it stinks 😆

 

thats nicotine that. 
 

had an early 70’s p in my hands briefly to appraise…it smelled like 50 year old (damp/full) ash trays and off/stale beer.

[Reggaebass]

I’ve seen the headstock like that before but never the whole thing, it must have been in some serious Smokey places 

[Piers_Williamson]

2 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

I’ve seen the headstock like that before but never the whole thing, it must have been in some serious Smokey places 

Perhaps the owner practices in a salmon smoke house?

[AndyTravis]

3 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

I’ve seen the headstock like that before but never the whole thing, it must have been in some serious Smokey places 

The people who brought it to appraise (wife and son of deceased bass player) both smelled of Old ash trays and stale booze too.

[LukeFRC]

25 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Bet it stinks 😆

 

thats nicotine that. 
 

had an early 70’s p in my hands briefly to appraise…it smelled like 50 year old (damp/full) ash trays and off/stale beer.

🤮

I tell you one thing, I personally am glad the smoking ban came in

[MM Stingray 62]

My old jazz bass smelled of a thousand clubs and pubs when I first opened it’s case.

 

[Reggaebass]

3 minutes ago, marleaux62 said:

My old jazz bass smelled of a thousand clubs and pubs when I first opened it’s case.

 

That’s lovely marleaux 

 

 

 

[AndyTravis]

36 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

🤮

I tell you one thing, I personally am glad the smoking ban came in

I was in Ireland when they introduced it first.

 

Hated it.

 

Smoked another few years after that - in fairness, the ban and constantly increasing prices (and the smell, the constant “do I stink of cigs?” And the “I can’t breathe”) got me to knock it on the head.

[NAS Bass]

7 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

What could have happened with the finish on this 🤔

https://reverb.com/uk/item/52931875-super-vintage-1977-fender-jazz-bass-sunburst-100-original

Not too unusual for the headstock face to darken on 70s Fenders as that part was still sprayed nitro lacquer (over the decal), that's why the maple fingerboards always look lighter. 

 

As for the whole bass, I'd guess its spent a good few years locked in a case and the finish has had some sort of reaction. I've seen this referred to as 'gassing'

[Velarian]

7 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

What could have happened with the finish on this 🤔

https://reverb.com/uk/item/52931875-super-vintage-1977-fender-jazz-bass-sunburst-100-original

I can’t believe no one has said the obvious - it’s a tobacco sunburst innit?

[Velarian]

5 hours ago, Piers_Williamson said:

A Player's Capstan bass rather than a Player's bass?

 

Judging by the depth of colour it’s probably more likely to be this…