FINAL REDUCTION - Fender Jazz Bass 1974 - NOW £2850.00 - *WITHDRAWN* £3200 North Wales

[bassintheface]

****UPDATE: withdrawn from sale

 

Final reduction before I withdraw from sale and put away under the bed!

 

Hey guys,

 

this is the second of my basses to go - I'm not gigging regularly and have weighed up for 2 years now which 2 I would let go.

 

With a heavy heart, I'm putting up for sale my beautiful 1974 Fender Jazz Bass in sunburst with RW board, block and bound neck and black scratchplate.

 

It's in beautiful condition, with literally about 2 or 3 'dings' on the body, which you can see in the photos.

When I bought it, it hadn't been played in years - my guess is that it had laid under someones bed or something as it hasn't had a hard life at all.

 

I mainly used it for recording and 'bigger' type gigs - not for weddings and pubs etc!

 

I dated the pots off the codes - week 5 of 1974.

Red ink on the bottom of the pickups appear to show 1974 and the serial number can obvs be checked also.

I've owned it once 2015.

 

The neck pickup wasn't working at all when I got it, so Matt at ://www.houseoftonepickups.com gave it a full set up and rewound the neck pick up back to period correct specs and wax potted - all hand wound. I have the paperwork from Matt somewhere.

 

 

She sounds absolutely mint and is a decent, comfortable weight!!

 

Test drives welcome with a brew provided in Wrexham.

 

Comes in a modern, used, Fender hard case.

 

I'd rather not post this due to value - at your risk!!

Surely something of this vintage needs picking up!

 

Sale only, no trades.

 

14-10-2024 - added a photo of underside of pots - can see codes 1377405 - week 5 Jan 1974. It all seems to add up to being a late 1973 / early 1974 4 bolt neck Jazz Bass.

 

I'll have to remove strings and scratchplate etc to look underneath pickups etc as I can't seem to find the photos Matt took for me when he rewound the neck pickup.

 

Cheers,

 BITF.

Edited December 1 by bassintheface
Extra photo of pots

[snorkie635]

Yum! Yum! (''Nough said!)

[Reggaebass]

Beauty 👌

[bassintheface]

Just remembered this from 10 years ago.

 

this is how the bass sounds recorded….and I was playing it on the promo vid also…..

 

[bassintheface]

Hey guys,

 

would it generally be preferred if I added some photos of the pots / codes, underside of pickups etc?

 

cheers.

[Reggaebass]

22 minutes ago, bassintheface said:

Hey guys,

 

would it generally be preferred if I added some photos of the pots / codes, underside of pickups etc?

 

cheers.

An interested buyer would probably ask for those , so may as well add them to your listing and they are always good to see, good luck with your sale 

[bassintheface]

Just a quick update that I’m quite possibly driving down from north wales to bath later this week, so can take  the bass with me…….

 

passing through Shrewsbury, Telford, B’Ham and M6, down the M5…..

 

As per my post on the Limelight P bass thread; I've had to rearrange and this will likely happen in a week or two now.

Edited October 22 by bassintheface

[FunkyDude]

Hi, what is the weight please? Thanks.

[bassintheface]

3 hours ago, FunkyDude said:

Hi, what is the weight please? Thanks.

Hello,

 

will weigh it when I get home - it's not heavy at all......

[bassintheface]

looks like I'm likely heading down to Bath / Bristol area Thursday all being well........

[bassintheface]

Withdrawn from sale