Creeper

I love these jazz basses with the pickguard which includes the control cavity. Quality instrument.

Not sure about this, not seen an E9 serial number before for 79/80, surely E9 would be 89???

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F202402946661

Stef just bought some strings from, paid promptly and kept in touch. Top basschatter 👍🏻

My Mark Bass CMD121p the power light comes on, and the the DI is fortunately still working but nothing through the amp, any thoughts?

New power amp has fixed the problem

Being a little obsessed with Tort pickguards, here are my 72 and 69 Jazz bass Torts, feel free to list yours with the date and what it’s off, it will be interesting to see the differences...

Top three is a 72 Tort from a Jazz bass

Bottom two is a 69 Tort from a Jazz bass

Price drop, £25 deilvered, brand new in their wrappers...

Lee bought some strings from me, an easy simple and quick transaction, a pleasure to deal with 👍🏻

These are awesome, I swapped mine for the 121p combo with the NY extension cab, but would go back to this quite happily. 

I’m an habitual setterupperer (if that is a real word....) and tend to have a regular play around with my set up most weeks, so the hot weather just means I get to do it even more 😁👍🏻😁

Sorry folks these are sold.

Gauge is 45-105

Yep, I have no use for the spare string that some of our bass community use 😁

Never used and won’t be used as I only play flats these days, £20 delivered

Just sold a 73 Precision to the Bassdawg, he’s a pleasure to deal with and I hope to do business again.

47 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

That looks great  loving the neck too

I must say that the necks on these USA Geddy Lees Jazz basses are superb...

What about silver knobs or is just going too far??????

I’ve never liked Tort on black basses before, something just didn’t seem right. However after a bit of bass in bass out upgrading downgrading nonsense, I ended up with a 1969 Tort pickguard. 

I strapped it to a bit of ply to stop it from shrinking as the only bass I had to put it on is a black USA Geddy Lee Jazz bass, and not liking Tort on black I never thought to give it a go.

however!

tonight I thought “sod it, let’s give it a go”, and all of a sudden I love Tort on black 😁

Good or bad, I can take it......

On hold 

I now only have a gig bag to transport this in, and lots of thick cardboard and bubble wrap 😁😁

The neck code on my 72 Jazz is pretty much non existent, however the name “krausfeldt” is clearly stamped on it. I did a google search and found the below information on him which ties in nicely with my neck being from 72. I wondered whether there is a database anywhere of these old fender guitar makers and neck finishers, I’ve seen a few lists which have been started but nothing that I think has captured everything.

“I am that Ken Krausfeldt, and I worked at Fender from 1964 to 1974. For the first several years I shaped and final-sanded guitar necks and some bodies. Because all work was inspected before finish or paint each shaper had to identify his work. In my case, and at different times, rubber name stamps or simply a number was used (for me, #8). And rarely, simple printing was used. Because we were paid "piece-work" rates for each completed item the fastest way of identification was the order of the day.
During my tenure there, and after I returned from Viet-Nam ('67-'69) I supervised virtually every production line in the factory, except painting: Guitars, Amplifiers, Rogers Drums, and Fender-Rhodes Pianos. I wound up as supervisor of quality control. I left to join BIC-Venturi Stereo Speaker Company as Quality Control Manager.”

Now thats a great Idea 👍🏻

I’m playing at two festivals today so she’s go If tonhave a good run out 😁

56 minutes ago, gary mac said:

Which is exactly what I did a couple of years back, seek out an original that is. Took a while but a contact came up with one. My wife thought I had lost the plot, "paying all that for a bit of old plastic" 

Since sold the bass but now have another slightly older model and once again, with the most lovely tort guard.

And as good as spitfire are compared to all other modern tort, it’s still not a patch on the old stuff.

is the tort pickguard an art form lost to time or can no one be bothered to put the effort in?

If a guitar manufacturer was to start producing guitars with real quality tort like the 60s and 70s as it should be done it would certainly set them apart!!!