definitely the best bass I've ever seen in my life.
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definitely the best bass I've ever seen in my life.
I'm looking at a 74 that looks like your bass, but with the thumb rest above the strings. What do you thing they are worth these days? That's a beautiful bass!
If you can afford it , then it’s a good price. And it sounds like you can.
Just for reference , a rickenbacker 12 string guitar is around 2500 brand new.
I mentioned in an earlier post how the 70's pickups were different (perhaps hotter?) than earlier pickups. Is there any kind soul out there who knows any company that replicates the 70's pickups?
Seymour Duncan Steve Harris might be worth a look.
Seemed like EVERYONE in the 70’s swapped out whatever Fender put in for a Dimarzio Model P (was there anything else?). That’s the sound of a 70’s P to me, and still my favorite pickup.
Here's a lake placid blue 1970 precision
I believe it was once Lake Placid Blue, but at this point, I'd call that "Swampwater green" - that thing sure has changed over the years. Is there an "edge" in the finish on the body around the perimeter of the pickguard? It looks like someone may have sprayed clear (that yellowed over time) on the thing.
Good question. In one of the side pictures i see a darker blue under the greened clearcoat that is different from the blue under the pickguard.
Rare Vintage 1970 Fender Precision Bass P-Bass Electric Guitar Lake Placid Blue Finish
My first bass was a ‘75 Precision and I had it for over 30 years. Joined here in ‘07 to sell it and have been here since. I don’t think the older basses have any kind of special sauce about them. They’re just old. There were a LOT of crappy ones out there along with the good. Ever since ‘08 the MIA line IMO is better than it ever has been.
I tried a Nate Mendel sig a few days back. If it is indicative of what a '70s reissue would deliver then there is no point, really.
It's like a modern MIM P Bass with an extra pickguard screw and a cooler headstock decal. And somebody has knocked the shine off the back of the neck. Just a basic P Bass with nothing exciting going on tonally or in terms of feel in the hands. A used Highway One P Bass would net you the correct headstock decal, if you wanted to build a similar instrument.
It's like a modern MIM P Bass with an extra pickguard screw and a cooler headstock decal. And somebody has knocked the shine off the back of the neck. Just a basic P Bass with nothing exciting going on tonally or in terms of feel in the hands. A used Highway One P Bass would net you the correct headstock decal, if you wanted to build a similar instrument.
Interesting take…
Anyway, I’m pretty sure this thread was suggesting a 70s spec MIA, perhaps in the American Vintage line? Which is why I alluded to the somewhat similarly spec’d MIM basses.
As someone else suggested, recent Fenders are higher quality than instruments than vintage, so why not?
The Mendell Specs appear to be quite different than a basic P Bass -
- Specially contoured ash body with light Road Worn® finish treatment
- Maple neck with slimmer “C” profile and “F”-stamped neck plate
- 7.25”-radius rosewood fingerboard with 20 medium jumbo frets
- Seymour Duncan® Basslines SPB-3 Quarter Pound™ split single-coil Precision Bass pickup
- Fender High-Mass bridge
- Extra neck plate engraved with a special hybrid Foo Fighters/Fender logo