This'll depress all you vintage Fender anoraks....

[wateroftyne]

...'cos it sure as hell depressed me.

 

Someone posted this photo on my home village's FB group of a local band from back in the day.

 

 

'Hellooooooo' says I - there can't have been many custom colour P's in the UK - never mind our little part of the North East - back then.

 

Intrigued, I went on the hunt and tracked down the bass player's step-son, who still lives in the area along with the man himself.

 

I asked the step-son what happened to the bass.

 

"Yeah, it was a sort of pastel turquoise pale blue finish. He sold it about ten years ago for pennies (£150 if my memory serves me well)."

 

*sigh*

 

 

[Newfoundfreedom]

How can you tell it's a custom colour on a black and white photo? 

[Doctor J]

Easy. It's the same colour has his custom jacket.

[Sibob]

7 minutes ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

How can you tell it's a custom colour on a black and white photo? 

I think at that point, the only 'standard' colour was Sunburst. There's a point of contention as to whether Oly White was standard or 'Custom'....but yeah....it ain't white either haha

 

Si

[wateroftyne]

9 minutes ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

How can you tell it's a custom colour on a black and white photo? 

 

Because it's not 'burst.

[yorks5stringer]

What about the 12 string Burns mind.....?

[Shaggy]

Way back from when bands used to smile in pics

 

That lady singer sure has some balls on her.........😉

[Simon.]

@wateroftynedo you know the name of the band? The drummer looks a lot like old photos of my Dad, who used to play in bands across the north east 60-ish years ago!

[Reggaebass]

5 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

He sold it about ten years ago for pennies (£150 if my memory serves me well)."

[Lozz196]

3 hours ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

How can you tell it's a custom colour on a black and white photo? 

He’s the one in the yellow jacket standing next to the bloke in red trousers…,

[Grahambythesea]

Didn’t Selmer respray a load of sunbursts red, the infamous fiesta that turned pinkish?  Something to do with some band called the Shadows or something! 🤪🤔

[Hellzero]

It was Arbiter that did the respray job at the time as they were the Fender importer.

[Bassfinger]

26 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

It was Arbiter that did the respray job at the time as they were the Fender importer.

Indeed. One just ordered it in any colour from the UK Dallas Arbiter palette. 

 

[wateroftyne]

Selmer did indeed do fiesta red resprays.

 

It's worth pointing out at that this one was a 'pastel turquoise pale blue finish'.

 

..and not a refin.

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 16, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[Sibob]

46 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

Selmer did indeed do fiesta red resprays.

 

It's worth pointing out at that this one was a 'pastel turquoise pale blue finish'.

 

..and not a refin.

So Daphne or Sonic Blue perhaps!?
 

Si

[OliverBlackman]

4 minutes ago, Sibob said:

So Daphne or Sonic Blue perhaps!?
 

Si

I initially thought sonic blue which sometimes can look turquoise. 

[RhysP]

21 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

...'cos it sure as hell depressed me.

 

Someone posted this photo on my home village's FB group of a local band from back in the day.

 

 

'Hellooooooo' says I - there can't have been many custom colour P's in the UK - never mind our little part of the North East - back then.

 

Intrigued, I went on the hunt and tracked down the bass player's step-son, who still lives in the area along with the man himself.

 

I asked the step-son what happened to the bass.

 

"Yeah, it was a sort of pastel turquoise pale blue finish. He sold it about ten years ago for pennies (£150 if my memory serves me well)."

 

*sigh*

 

 

He probably sold it for thousands & just told his family he got £150 for it.

[bertbass]

In 1972, Ps came sunburst as standard, if you wanted it in a colour it was 10% extra.  Oh, and left handed was 10% extra as well.

[Reggaebass]

6 minutes ago, bertbass said:

In 1972, Ps came sunburst as standard, if you wanted it in a colour it was 10% extra.  Oh, and left handed was 10% extra as well.

I think if you wanted an A profile neck, that was extra too 

[LukeFRC]

8 hours ago, Sibob said:

So Daphne or Sonic Blue perhaps!?
 

Si

Daphne or sea foam I would guess from the tone on the black and white photo

[LukeFRC]

Last year I looked at vintage Fenders for a bit a toyed with the idea of a nice mid 60s P. Didn’t go that direction in the end but one thing I did notice was a lot of shady people being shady, and a practice for being economical with the truth and wording things very carefully to give impressions of provenance 

[Reggaebass]

2 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

a practice for being economical with the truth

I’ve been looking for a late 60s early 70s P for quite a while now , and nearly every one I’ve looked at the seller has been economical with the truth, the favourite is “I thought it was all original “ , I don’t mind paying the going rate but they just wasted my time 

[Hellzero]

6 hours ago, bertbass said:

In 1972, Ps came sunburst as standard, if you wanted it in a colour it was 10% extra.  Oh, and left handed was 10% extra as well.

 

6 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

I think if you wanted an A profile neck, that was extra too 

The hard case was extra too.

 

In fact, everything was extra, except the strings.

[Reggaebass]

10 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

The hard case was extra too

I didn’t know that, the ones I’ve seen without a case I just assumed it had gone missing