electriccheese Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 (edited) Hi! Here's for sale my 1973 Precision Bass. The bass plays and sounds amazing, and only weights 3,8kg. The neck is straight, and the truss rod works fine. The frets seems to be original, and are like new. The only thing that maybe it's not original is the brass nut, but I'm not sure. The witdh at nut is 40mm, and the neck is thin and comfortable (similar to a jazz neck) It comes with the pup and bridge covers, thumbrest and original hardshell case. SOLD Thanks! Edited August 9, 2010 by electriccheese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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73Jazz Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 (edited) awesome Bass, if i wouldn`t own so much old Fenders..this wouldl be the one to grab. Good Luck for the beauty Edited July 19, 2010 by 73Jazz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 oh i like this..to be honest its even better with the non original brass nut...cracking P Bass the best ive seen for a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB2000 Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 100% original apart from the bits that aren't. Can't argue with that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electriccheese Posted July 19, 2010 Author Share Posted July 19, 2010 [quote name='BB2000' post='898960' date='Jul 19 2010, 03:07 PM']100% original apart from the bits that aren't. Can't argue with that...[/quote] Ok, you're right in part. I will edit the topic. But the only things that I don't know if are original are: The brass nut (and only cause I don't know if in 1973 fender made basses with brass nut) The frets, cause are like new, but there's no mark on the fretboard that I can see to say that it's refretted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiOgon Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 "The neck is straight, and the truss rod works fine. The frets seems to be original, and are like new. The only thing that maybe it's not original is the brass nut, but I'm not sure. The witdh at nut is 40mm, and the neck is thin and comfortable (similar to a jazz neck)" First time I've heard of a neck with a 40mm nut on a '73 Precision? I read they changed from the 'C' 1&3/4" to the 'B' 1&5/8" in 72/73. Always thought the 40 mm [i]was/is[/i] a Jazz neck & it was much later they started swapping around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB2000 Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 It'll be a B neck - a spread of a couple of mm in the width is normal. Jazz necks of this era are 11/2" nominal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presidente Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 (edited) Fender has never used a brass nut on his bass guitars (not in those years anyway and not on common P basses). So it's certainly been added later. This suggests to me even a refret job done on the fretboard, otherwise it wouldn't make sense only to change the nut. In fact, looking at the picture, the layer of rosewood is very thin, so the keyboard could have been leveled somewhere in time (common fact during a refret job). Even more so if you say that the frets are still like new. I sold an identical P Bass (same year, same colour, same features, same amount of money) just a couple of months ago. She also had a non original brass nut, and a really thin layer of rosewood (that I think was leveled several times). My 2 cents. Anyway, it's an amazing instrument, in a very good state at a fair price. Good luck with the sale. Edited July 28, 2010 by Presidente Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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