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Wow!!! Where has this been sitting practically unused for 60 years!!!!

For decades I wondered how close Fender's reissues came to replicate the appearance of a new 1965 model. I guess that question has finally been answered.

Hee hee... I was wondering if this was a custom shop...

rdavidson wrote:Hee hee... I was wondering if this was a custom shop...

It does seem too good to be true. The legend of the used-once vintage guitar stored under a bed for half a century gets harder to imagine each year.

Yeah, I'm dubious. No way a 60 year old Fender would look that pristine unless it was hermetically sealed in a vault all this time. And then you get to thinking about how such a bass would have even come about. It would have had to have been custom ordered in '65, the lefty who ordered it (at a hefty price even then) would have had to have not played it much if at all, and then sat on it for 60 years or never bothered to sell it to someone else who, in 60 years, never played it either? Intruments get played, or they get sold, traded, etc. At some point, it would have accumulated some wear regardless.

I think it’s a legit case queen. There are slight scuffs, dings, and the finish on the back of the headstock is checked to hell & back. Chrome F cover has pitting. No custom shop logo. Veneer fingerboard. Guessing late ‘65 because of the lollies? Burst & tort guard are also on point.

Serious question: assuming the bass is genuine and you had the money to buy it, what would you do with it?

Matt R. wrote:I think it’s a legit case queen. There are slight scuffs, dings, and the finish on the back of the headstock is checked to hell & back. Chrome F cover has pitting. No custom shop logo. Veneer fingerboard. Guessing late ‘65 because of the lollies? Burst & tort guard are also on point.

You are correct Matt. Neck date stamp is Oct 7 1965.
IMO these 1964-1965 are the best Jazz basses out there.
Pre dots/binding and blocks/binding make for the best feeling Jazz neck ever made.

Agent00Soul wrote:Serious question: assuming the bass is genuine and you had the money to buy it, what would you do with it?

What you’re supposed to do- play the fuck out of it.

Matt R. wrote:

Agent00Soul wrote:Serious question: assuming the bass is genuine and you had the money to buy it, what would you do with it?

What you’re supposed to do- play the fuck out of it.

It would be too much of an albatross for me to do that. But I guess if money were no object, which is what I wrote, then why not?