Chiliwailer

Neck looks legit, especially with those stamps on the heal. You’re right about the logo, not a chance it’s legit.

I know they often had 2 extra holes in the neck pocket, but there’s a fair few more there - worst case scenario is it’s an old refin that kept the stamps, it happens. I may be wrong, hard to always see in pics. edit - if resprayed, and that’s an if, it could have been put back to the original colour as a stamp seems to go just over the paint, as it would have.

The code is correct for a maple board ‘77 P Bass neck. So if the code is Fender legit, then it must of had a new decal. Is the body original finish? Sometimes matching headstocks were done on a refin.

Any pot codes @Bagman ?

Now you got me thinking about starting a soul/RnB Bluegrass band and calling it Dirty Barn Dancing 😊

Band-Jo-Aid - Do they know it’s Bluegrass?

The Gr’80s

Thanks, read this half hour ago and 🎵I just can’t get it out of my head… 🎶🙄

Brilliant, just tried that, great tip! 😊

Guess what I should have says was ‘that can be a type of echolalia’ - though as you said, we are all different so could be other things too 👍

Could be a form of echolalia?

I think there’s bound to be some people who can’t make up new music in their head ( i.e. make up a tune and ‘hear’ it, similarly there are people who say they can’t visualise. I’d guess many can make up a melody in their head, but that only a few could compose multi-melody / multi-instrument style pieces in their heads. The wonders of neurodiversity eh?

Sad news. Was always envious when he had those 3 x Mike Lull basses; always great taste in gear, and a lovely man to chat to.

What you did came from a good place, seems off that you were admittedly not acknowledged or even get a quick ‘thanks and all the best’ email. I’m not a fan, they sent me out a bass with 2 significant issues that were not disclosed, and oddly can’t have been noticed by them prior to sale. There was a very weak apology (if you can call it that), and no recognition of wasting my time, especially when having to be in for a bass to be collected that should never have left the shop. I also had issues with their vague emails about delivery (though I got a phone call apology when I pointed out how confusing and ‘brief’ they had been). So yeah, I’m not surprised your email was ignored.

What a gent… Tony responded to my item wanted advert to let me know of one for sale (well it was until I bought it 😊). Cheers pal 🙏

Another cool example of Fender using up old stock lying around, such as those tuners. Perhaps in this case they used up parts before the P Bass revamp in ‘68.

Absolutely. The older I get the more SLO appeals, but my buying days are well over here for a new MM, a bit over £2k for an HH Special in 2018 was already pushing it for me personally.

Delano https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/delano-jmvc-4-fe-m2/

This is good in addition http://vintagebassworld.com/description.php?manufacturer=Fender&product=Jazz&year=0

Nice to see the CS doing a similar bass (and that seems to before the price hikes 😬) https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Fender-Custom-Shop-60-Precision-Bass-Relic-RW-3-Color-Sunburst/5GZ0?origin=product-ads&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2Jn2-fCegwMVQp2DBx13KAm2EAQYBSABEgIGcfD_BwE