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Post subject: NBD - Help me identify it.
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 8:08 pm
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I'm a guitarist who enjoys playing the bass now and then. A few weeks ago I found a used MIM 60th anniversary Jazz Bass at GC at a nice price so I grabbed it. I got to take it home today. It is awesome! It's noticeably nicer than the standard MIM J-Bass (which I already owned and traded in for it.) I am hoping someone can identify the exact model based on my description. I will post a pic when I get a chance.

Here's a description:

Made in Mexico
Serial number MZ5, followed by six digits
Sunburst finish
tort pickguard
Glossy finish neck, no skunk stripe, rosewood board
Reverse tuners, clover shaped
Two volume and one tone control
No chrome pickup covers
No thumbrest/finger pull
60th anniversary sticker on back of headstock


As soon as I picked it up in the store and felt that glossy finish neck, I knew I had to have it. The satin finish neck on my old bass - it felt nice, but it just didn't feel right. This one feels just perfect. I pulled my old R.A.D. bass amp out of the basement and plugged my new baby in. Terrific! I've been playing along with YouTube vids for a couple of hours and having a blast. The perfect Jazz Bass sound to my ears. Everything on this bass looks so much higher in quality than the standard MIM bass and the sound is much closer to that which I've always associated with the Jazz Bass. And it's in absolutely mint condition.


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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:10 am
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Might be a FSR (Fender Special Run.) Both Guitar Center and Musicians Friend dot com had FSR basses sold exclusively by them around this time and both had a tortoise pickguard but each had a different body finish. But I don't remember for sure who had which color. I think the Guitar Center ones were natural finished bodies, which would make yours the Musicians Friend version. Other than the body finish both basses were pretty much the same.


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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:19 pm
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Thanks brotherdave. It might also be a Classic series 60s Jazz Bass. Assuming they were making these in the 60th anniversary year (2006 ?), then I think my bass is consistent with that model.

http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0131800300


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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:07 pm
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Check your bridge. The Classic 60's series basses have the vintage type bridge barrels with multiple grooves in each saddle, the look almost like screw threads except they are separate parallel ridges instead of an endless thread. The FSR basses had the single slot MIM bridges like on the Standard. The Classic 60's Jazz was introduced in 2001, so if it has the multiple ridges on each bridge saddle instead of a single slot I'd say it is a Classic 60's. Nice either way.


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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:47 pm
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Thanks once again. I think you nailed it. It does have the screw type bridge saddles exactly as you described. This bass is exactly what I've always wanted in a bass. I couldn't be happier with it.


Your website is very cool, by the way. :D


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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:01 am
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You are welcome and thanks for the kind words!


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