CarlsNotHere

You're killing me, I had another red one, also an '88 build, don't remember the month or production number but clearly Phil had a chock load of orders for red Ex-Factors that year. These were indeed Phil's own handy work, the FCS builds were designated with the CS logo pressed into the back of the "headstock" such as it was. The Fender builds tended to get looked at as lower end for some reason, from Phil's own words the only real difference was the slightly less complicated preamp/control set used on the Fender builds, they had the same laminate neck right down to the filled wooden dowel hole near the date stamp but with the CS label under the production #. Phil was a genius, most comfortable bass I ever owned, and I've owned way too many. Can't believe I traded it, got an early production Yamaha Japan R&D shop TRB4p, a Hartke 410 and some cash for it back around 1990 😉