Vintage Fenders

[ossyrocks]

30 minutes ago, peteb said:

 

Is he the guy who used to be Johnny Mars tech (among others) / tour manager for the Buzzcocks? He used to run a rehearsal studio in Stockport that I used a few years ago. Confusingly, the other guy he ran it with was also called Richard! Both were good guys and the guy who used to work for Mars was always working on / selling some cool guitars, not to mention had some interesting stories to tell...! 

 

Yes, that's him

[ossyrocks]

36 minutes ago, walshy said:

Yeah all the 72 P's I have in stock have the longer G screw mate

 

I can confirm now that the saddles have been changed.

 

I was looking at a straight swap on a guitar I have here, but I think I'm going to let this one go, not because it's not a nice bass, but mainly because the guitar I have here is worth quite a lot of money and I would want an all original bass if I were going to trade it. If anyone wants to message me, I do know the cash price for quick sale.

 

Rob

[casapete]

2 hours ago, peteb said:

 

Is he the guy who used to be Johnny Mars tech (among others) / tour manager for the Buzzcocks? He used to run a rehearsal studio in Stockport that I used a few years ago. Confusingly, the other guy he ran it with was also called Richard! Both were good guys and the guy who used to work for Mars was always working on / selling some cool guitars, not to mention had some interesting stories to tell...! 

 

That’s the fella - He brokered a sale for a vintage amp I was selling, and was a pleasure to deal with as

well as being a bit of a character. He plays guitar in a punky kind of band, and likes a Les Paul Junior

so must be okay. 😁

[ossyrocks]

4 minutes ago, casapete said:

That’s the fella - He brokered a sale for a vintage amp I was selling, and was a pleasure to deal with as

well as being a bit of a character. He plays guitar in a punky kind of band, and likes a Les Paul Junior

so must be okay. 😁

I first met Rich in 1992 when I started working at NCC on Oxford Rd, only a few hundred yards from A1 Music where he worked. That year I bought a nice condition all original 1973 Olympic White Fender Strat in the original case from Rich in the shop, for the princely sum of £225. We've done countless deals since, and he introduced me to Joe Bonamassa in 2015 when we hung out at a studio in London for a day with him before the Royal Albert Hall show. Joe put me and my wife on the guest list for a show in Leeds subsequently.

[peteb]

17 minutes ago, casapete said:

That’s the fella - He brokered a sale for a vintage amp I was selling, and was a pleasure to deal with as

well as being a bit of a character. He plays guitar in a punky kind of band, and likes a Les Paul Junior

so must be okay. 😁

 

Yep, a bit of a geezer with connections to quite a lot of Manc superstars of a certain time! Me and the guitar player (who used to have a guitar shop in those days) always used to have a chat with him after rehearsals. He always had an interesting story to tell and I remember his quite fascinating insider take on quite a controversial matter of the time that he had been innocently caught up in.

 

Very much a Les Paul Junior type of guy! 🤩 

 

[briansbrew]

On 05/06/2025 at 08:55, Reggaebass said:

Try this 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/1967-fender-precision-bass/1497408033??utm_source=mail&utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_content=app_ios&utm_medium=Social

I asked him the question, are all the parts original, his answer..its an old bass 

[Reggaebass]

2 minutes ago, briansbrew said:

I asked him the question, are all the parts original, his answer..its an old bass 

Great answer 😂

[ossyrocks]

1 hour ago, briansbrew said:

I asked him the question, are all the parts original, his answer..its an old bass 

Well I don't think he's mistaken.....🤣

[briansbrew]

58 minutes ago, ossyrocks said:

Well I don't think he's mistaken.....🤣

Talk about blunt 🧐

[walshy]

1 hour ago, briansbrew said:

Talk about blunt 🧐

Well we do always complain that we never get an accurate description on a sales listing 😂

[msb]

In the 70’s everyone was putting DiMarzios , Badass bridges and brass nuts on their Pbasses. Today just about all of those are now back to stock. You never know … 

[mikebass456]

2 minutes ago, msb said:

In the 70’s everyone was putting DiMarzios , Badass bridges and brass nuts on their Pbasses. Today just about all of those are now back to stock. You never know … 

They're all on Jazz basses now....

[Owen]

My 66J and 73P have brass nuts. At least I know they lived a little

[snorkie635]

12 hours ago, Owen said:

My 66J and 73P have brass nuts. At least I know they lived a little

So have I, and yes, I did. 😉

[LukeFRC]

16 hours ago, briansbrew said:

Talk about blunt 🧐

to be fair to him, if you were selling an old instrument you didn't know a lot about at a reasonable price you might not want to promise everything is kosher if you didn't know. Also you know there will have been at least 3 idiots sending him messages like "oh I don't think X Y and Z is right, it's a bitsa mess of parts, I'll give you £500 for it?" 

[snorkie635]

5 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

to be fair to him, if you were selling an old instrument you didn't know a lot about at a reasonable price you might not want to promise everything is kosher if you didn't know. Also you know there will have been at least 3 idiots sending him messages like "oh I don't think X Y and Z is right, it's a bitsa mess of parts, I'll give you £500 for it?" 

Untrue! I offered £495.

[three]

On 04/06/2025 at 23:25, ossyrocks said:

Richard Henry has posted what appears to be a very nice clean looking '72 Precision tonight.

 

I've known Richard for more than 30 years, and in my opinion, he is one of the good guys.

 

I'm going to let one of you guys enquire on the price....

 

https://www.instagram.com/richardhenryguitars?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=NDd5bHgxbnZ3MzJu

 

A bit of trivia and possible provenance, if I'm right.  I think I know this bass pretty well.  The George Radcliffe named in the MECAA card was a serious trombone player but doubled on bass.  He was the bass player for a band called Five Penny Piece - a sort of Lancashire folk and comedy act with some big gigs and several albums (national TV etc.).  George was also the landlord of the Star pub in Ashton-under-Lyne - the best pint of Boddington's bitter available anywhere in my opinion.  The quality of the beer was largely down to George's son, the cellarman and another 'bone player, who I think inherited this bass, along with George's Jazz.  As far as I know, the son was recently made redundant so not unreasonable that this bass should appear now.  With a mate, I took both of the basses to be set-up by Ted Lee (luthier to the stars and painted Manzanera's Firebird red I believe) in the very early '80s when George was still very active.  I shall make further enquiries with the son.  Anyway, that passed a few minutes.  

[LukeFRC]

14 minutes ago, three said:

A bit of trivia and possible provenance, if I'm right.  I think I know this bass pretty well.  The George Radcliffe named in the MECAA card was a serious trombone player but doubled on bass.  He was the bass player for a band called Five Penny Piece - a sort of Lancashire folk and comedy act with some big gigs and several albums (national TV etc.).  George was also the landlord of the Star pub in Ashton-under-Lyne - the best pint of Boddington's bitter available anywhere in my opinion.  The quality of the beer was largely down to George's son, the cellarman and another 'bone player, who I think inherited this bass, along with George's Jazz.  As far as I know, the son was recently made redundant so not unreasonable that this bass should appear now.  With a mate, I took both of the basses to be set-up by Ted Lee (luthier to the stars and painted Manzanera's Firebird red I believe) in the very early '80s when George was still very active.  I shall make further enquiries with the son.  Anyway, that passed a few minutes.  

It looks a lovely bass!

[Reggaebass]

54 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

to be fair to him, if you were selling an old instrument you didn't know a lot about at a reasonable price you might not want to promise everything is kosher if you didn't know. Also you know there will have been at least 3 idiots sending him messages like "oh I don't think X Y and Z is right, it's a bitsa mess of parts, I'll give you £500 for it?" 

I find short replies like this sometimes put me off buying from people, if they don’t know anything about the bass then they only have to say so, I understand they might have had some timewasters but we’re talking about parting with nearly £3,500 in cash 

[Burns-bass]

5 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

I find short replies like this sometimes put me off buying from people, if they don’t know anything about the bass then they only have to say so, I understand they might have had some timewasters but we’re talking about parting with nearly £3,500 in cash 

If you want to charge vintage money for a bass then you provide history, pics and everything g you can for provenance. 
 

It’s not as if Fenders are hard to take apart! No hex keys, sealed bits etc.