Unique 1965 Fender Bass V £1500 Bournemouth

[graham1945]

Purchased by me in 1972 from Sound City, Shaftesbury Avenue and extensively used throughout the 70's and 80's until GAS took hold! It has been refinished many times since the blue sparkle finish seen in the Fender catalogue. The current finish looks OK but isn't great, with a few marks and a chip near the jack insert. The original pick up was soon added to with a John Birch steel guitar near the bridge, which sounded great. The feint outline of this pickup is still visible. This was replaced by the Bartolini MM pickup at the bridge by Mansons of Exeter. The original Fender pickup was then outed in favour of the Bartolini PB pickup installed by The Bass Gallery - the battery is for this pickup. Currently the bass sounds better than it ever has.

Original reverse thread tuners. 34" scale. Truss rod works. Hardly any fret wear. Around 4.3 kilos. Bit of neck dive. Strung BEADG instead of EADGC. Original bridge. 15 frets only.

I've loads of photos which I may have to post separately. The case is a fairly cheap TGI one in good condition.
A bit difficult (for me anyway) to access the higher frets due to a rather bulky neck pocket and the left over damage from a broken wrist.

The buyer may like to restore this to its original specs, but I assure you the pickups now fitted sound infinitely better than the original one. Any questions please ask.

The price is firm, and no exchanges thanks. I'm now 80 and certainly don't need any more basses!

Meet up somewhere in the south is the preferred course of action

[jimijimmi]

Hi, does the original pick up come with the bass? and the covers?

[graham1945]

Hi Jimi, Only the bridge cover is available, as shown in one of the pics.

[graham1945]

PS, the two spare scratch plates shown are to fit the original pickups - if you are able to source one.