[quote name='mckendrick' timestamp='1341445018' post='1719344']
.... three grades of tuning machine and two grades of bridge saddle - depending on which of the three or four grades of instrument you purchase. Accuracy aside, they [i]are[/i] great basses, so great I have four of them.
When did they stop? I've got a 1983 Fullerton re-ish and it has clay dots. Me brother has a '62 re-ish Strat, a Corona model from about 1989, and it too has clay dots.
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[/quote] My 1990 AV 62 Jazz has white dots....so does my 97 AV 62 P-Bass.....I've never seen clay dots on the reissues, only on custom shop models....do you have any pics?