William James Easton Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 OK story is this. About 1998 i purchased a pre owned Fender Precision for a bargin price from my local guitar shop. On the headstock it said USA Custom Shop. A couple of years later i stumbled upon a web site that had all fender serial numbers on, typed mine in and it came up with pleasing news it was a 1986 (maybe 84, 85) custom shop P bass. "OK very nice" i thought. the years dragged on and it got gigged. Then one rather nasty night i lost my head and so did she (the bass) headstock and first 1/4 of the neck where seperated from the rest of it!!!! My then lovely guitarist picked up the head stock, looked at me and muttered the following words: "i'm gonna keep this, you never know one day you may be famous". I laughed, he laughed, i sobbed, he scored. Then i replaced the neck with some cheap chunky piece of trash and let it gather dust in the corner whilst i went on my musical 'wilderness' period. Now i have lost contact with the guitarit and want to look into doing this bass up for a bit of a project. I was hoping to get the serial number off him (it was on the head stock IIRC) but that seem to be a hopeless quest. I'm thinking that this wasnt a kosher bass as i thought due to the £285 price tag, and now what to source info on it to guide me in what to do next eith it. so to sum up - Mid 80's p bass, apparently USA custom shop, J pick up at the back, Brass (maybe) scratch plate with a sand/cream paint job. pics are somewhere let me look.... here on this thread [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=15523&hl=rusty+shackleford"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...sty+shackleford[/url] any advice = virtual pint! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon1964 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 According to this, the Fender Custom Shop didn't start until 1987: [url="http://www.fender.com/customshop/aboutus/history.php"]http://www.fender.com/customshop/aboutus/history.php[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 What you have there, son, is a late 90's Mexican Precision Special. Not CS, I'm afraid... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William James Easton Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 cheers for the info. cut n shutt job maybe! im gonna try another go at the serial number. hope i can track him down. now what do i do with this bass? tart it up or bin it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr pablo Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 [quote name='Rusty Shackleford' post='287367' date='Sep 19 2008, 03:11 PM']cheers for the info. cut n shutt job maybe! im gonna try another go at the serial number. hope i can track him down. now what do i do with this bass? tart it up or bin it?[/quote] Tart it up, you know it makes sence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William James Easton Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 [quote name='mr pablo' post='287380' date='Sep 19 2008, 03:31 PM']Tart it up, you know it makes sence [/quote] i think i will. she'll look like a reet classy bird aswell. just gonna figure how , when , who etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 [quote name='gareth' post='287513' date='Sep 19 2008, 05:33 PM']The body looks like a late 90's Mexican Precision Special but the neck is'nt a late 90's Mexican Precision Special[/quote] Psssst.. read the original post... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William James Easton Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 a friend has informed me that the guy with the headstock is on one of these awful 'social networking' site and is gonna contact him for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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