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SOLD Fender Precision Bass 1971 // A neck
£2990
Villejuif France


Hooch
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Up for sale is my 1971 Fender Precision Bass. It's a nice example of these A neck Pbass, in full-original condition, except a refret. My luthier did a great job, not much wood has been removed from the veneer fingerboard, allowing further refret with this stunning piece of rosewood - frets are still seating on the fingerboard, not on the maple. The original nut is included, if you'd prefer removing the new bone nut and having this one (plus a shim) on the neck.

It's in pretty good condition, the red from the sunburst shaded on the front of the body and remained under the (original) ashtray which was probably on the bass for decades. Neck's straight, action is low (2mm or so under the strings on 12th fret), no fretbuzz, no shim. Pretty resonant body, quite light bass too: 3,9kg (without ashtray). Trussrod nut looks corroded but the trussrod has not much effort to do. It got plenty of life's left, neck is pretty stiff.

As for tone it's without a doubt one of the very best P i've ever heard. Labella flats (760-FL) are just great with this bass. Instant Motown-vibe but lots of clarity too with open tone pot. Tone-wise it got 'that' sound, with low-mids in spades. It really is an amazing one.

It comes with a (non-original) G&G-like case, nut and ashtray from 1971, non-original pickup cover, £2990 / 3500€ without shipping (i guess it's around the 80€ mark in Europe).

Will post some detailed guts pics later (neck stamp, pots and pickup). Everything is from 1971.

And forgot menrioning my Feedback thread :

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26 minutes ago, Hooch said:

Sorry my English is pretty poor. I thought OG for original is correct, but maybe it's not ?

I suppose OG is more like slang than an official abbreviation. I knew what you mean though. Anyway good luck with this lovely bass!

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3 hours ago, Hooch said:

Sorry my English is pretty poor. I thought OG for original is correct, but maybe it's not ?

Your English is actually good. OE = “original equipment”

OG is “original gravity” used in brewing beer 

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Thank you, it has a A neck indeed, 1.5" width at the nut. It's the same width as a jazz bass but feels thicker to me.

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As a side-note, when he did the refret work, my luthier insisted how smooth and greasy the fingerboard rosewood is. He's not 100% sure, but it could be brazilian one.

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