1975 Fender Precision Fake?

[Doctor J]

You'd expect there to be extra routing to find a home for the battery powering the EMG, no?

[MrFingers]

Under the pickguard is plenty of realestate for that. 

 

 

[itu]

I wouldn't bother. I expect the price to be irrelevant to the playability and sound it makes. Collectible? No. Soundmachine? There are better alternatives available. If the production year is important, the price does not mean a thing, although the parts are most likely a collection. "Handmade" details lower the price as well as desirability.

[Pea Turgh]

I love it! 🤣. If it was priced accordingly, it could be brought back up to spec?  (Apart from the ferrules 😬).  Gut feeling it plays nice.

 

Are you happy to share how much you paid for it @ronswanson?

Edited 3 hours ago by Pea Turgh

[ezbass]

1 hour ago, miles'tone said:

The fingerboard dots look like they've filled the holes with woodfiller to match the body finish.

 

I agree with that. This looks like a bass that has been owned and modded in a way that suited the previous owner/s. The string through ferrules seem to be a result of fitting a replacement, brass bridge, with that option and the subsequent holes made for that feature, made without recourse to a drill press and are, thus, all over the place.

Edited 3 hours ago by ezbass

[HeadlessBassist]

1 hour ago, Doctor J said:

You'd expect there to be extra routing to find a home for the battery powering the EMG, no?

 

In some cases they hide the extra routing for the battery under the Scratch Guard, in front of the volume control.

[Doctor J]

That's entirely the point, the lads were discussing potential routing hidden by the scratchplate.