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[quote name='alanbass1' timestamp='1353860236' post='1879058'] Well, if it were a sale I would want £1750 [/quote] A very good price, given it's very excellent condition. Can't see this hanging around meself.

[quote name='kennyrodg' timestamp='1352639025' post='1865399'] I'm not sure if it's a 62ri or a 57ri [/quote] It's a '57ri body with a '62ri neck. The neck has the FB3 tuners... so most likely it'll be from a CIJ PB62-US, where US would indicate the body it came from would have been fitted with US pickups. The neck plate has 'FENDER' on it so given it came with that body, it would put the body in earlier MIJ territory. Looks like basswood so it would have been a stock MIJ '57, in which case it's got a wise choice of pick-up mod. I have to say, that R/W fingerboard, the two tone body and gold anodised plate is a very handsome combination... especially with the tins fitted. Gorgeous looking bass. I bet it sounds dead right, too. And an extremely favourable price to boot! Good-luck-with-the-sale type bump. .

[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1352899348' post='1869006'] [size=3]I am sure the Fender specialists will comment on the two features make this bass unusual for a 1970/71: the lollypop tuners and the threaded saddles on the bridge. Both of these features [i]should[/i], I believe, have been phased out by1968/9, but the more I read the more I am reassured that this wasn’t always the case.[/size] [size=3][/quote][/size] [size=3]Quite right on all counts. That said.... I think that's the latest date I've seen with that gorgeous splodgy tort, spiral saddles and 'those' tuners.... but not the highest serial number - but serial numbers had the [i]wildest[/i] range of any feature around that time.[/size] [size=3]Really great price, Walbassist - I really can't see this hanging around too long, not even in this financial climate.[/size] [size=3]Superb example of a gorgeous bass. Shame you have to let it go, but have a good luck bump on me.[/size]

[quote name='Squib' timestamp='1353533530' post='1875834'] Thanks man . I think they now come with the Nash decal to make Bill's life a little easier I imagine . I have no idea where my decal came from and it was in no way applied by myself . [/quote] The Bill Nash logo is a mere sticker more reminscent of a transparent sticking plaster than a head stock logo, barely adhering to the surface, almost begging to be replaced by something a little more permanent.

[b][size=6]MINE. ALL MINE.[/size][/b] [size=4]And what a beauty! Top spec VSP model, making this the best-buy bargain of the month! [/size] Cheers, Ash.

[quote name='ted_manzie' timestamp='1353496764' post='1875141'] i'm not sure how Nash works - is this a Fender that's been given the Nash treatment? I ask because the Nash's i've seen have Nash on the headstock, but this one has Fender. Looks very cool btw. [/quote] The Nash decal on the headstocks are just stickers that fall off if you so much as breathe near them - as opposed to water slide decals. A few dealers put their own Fender decals on, as do many end users. My JB63 sports a Fender decal, as do most of the Nash's I've seen instore. @ Squib: Lovely P Bass, man. Good luck with the sale

....going.... ( the suspense is..., well..., [i]suspense! [/i])

Going, going....

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