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64 Jazz Bass on the bay

Posted: August 8th, 2009, 11:00 pm
by AzWhoFan
Something rarer than hen's teeth popped up on the bay. Pjmuck and I discussed this fellar briefly in another thread, where there was a link to the store on Gbase. But I believe there are more and better pics here. Seems to be in damn fine shape for a pre-CBS machine, but hey, what do I know, I'm no vintage expert.

To me, this seems to be pretty darn close to original. There doesn't look to be any futzing around of the solder joints. The patina on the tuners are consistent with tuners not beinbg played in many years. Finish is in great shape.

What say you guys about the logo, pickguard and knobs? Wouldn't a 64 have staked knobs, or am I way off base? I thought clay dots and stacked knobs kinda went together so to speak.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1964-Fender-JAZZ-Ba ... .m20.l1116

Re: 64 Jazz Bass on the bay

Posted: August 9th, 2009, 5:30 am
by JOE UMAN
AzWhoFan wrote: What say you guys about the logo, pickguard and knobs? Wouldn't a 64 have staked knobs, or am I way off base? I thought clay dots and stacked knobs kinda went together so to speak.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1964-Fender-JAZZ-Ba ... .m20.l1116

I believe the stacked knobs version only lasted a year and was discontinued in '62.

Re: 64 Jazz Bass on the bay

Posted: August 9th, 2009, 6:00 am
by Jeroen
It is often rumoured that the 'clay' dots actually contain asbestos that was removed from the floors of the Fender factory. Nothing was wasted ;)

Re: 64 Jazz Bass on the bay

Posted: August 9th, 2009, 7:38 pm
by Addison
Crazy... the date stamp on that thing is my birthday. October 7th.

Too bad I don't have twelve grand lying around.

Re: 64 Jazz Bass on the bay

Posted: August 10th, 2009, 9:00 am
by AzWhoFan
Addison wrote:Crazy... the date stamp on that thing is my birthday. October 7th.

Too bad I don't have twelve grand lying around.
You can submit a best offer. Maybe he'll take $11,999.oo? :lol: