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Post subject: Jazz Bass authentication
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:56 am
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I recently helped a friend clean out his fathers house and he gave me on of his basses. It definitely looks old and has some cool scuffs and dings but sounds great. It has the kneck replaced with the mighty mite big block maple kneck he had the logo for fender jazz bass put on there. The body is aged and the pickups and bridge are old looking. I think the bridge was changed out with brass saddles. He told me it was a 74 Fender Usa jazz bass. Is there anyway to authenticate it without the original neck. It sounds great and I got it for just moving somes stuff but i would just like to know personally.


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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 6:36 pm
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Here's Fender's info for dating instruments: http://www.fender.com/support/usa_instruments.php

To paraphrase, the neck is in most cases your best indicator for instrument age IF you have the neck that was on the instrument when it was sold, and even Fender admits that a neck could be from one year, and the bass body from another. So in a nutshell, you got a good-playing/good-sounding bass for nothing. It's probably not worth much on Ebay unless someone has a vintage neck laying around and can verify the year of manufacture for the other parts of the bass.

So just enjoy your "deal."


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Post subject: Re: Jazz Bass authentication
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 10:32 pm
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mbencavin wrote:
I recently helped a friend clean out his fathers house and he gave me on of his basses. It definitely looks old and has some cool scuffs and dings but sounds great. It has the kneck replaced with the mighty mite big block maple kneck he had the logo for fender jazz bass put on there. The body is aged and the pickups and bridge are old looking. I think the bridge was changed out with brass saddles. He told me it was a 74 Fender Usa jazz bass. Is there anyway to authenticate it without the original neck. It sounds great and I got it for just moving somes stuff but i would just like to know personally.


Hi MBENCAVIN and welcome to the forum.

Photos sure would help a lot! To post photos here follow directions in last section of this page: http://brotherdave.com/add_comm.htm

Without photos, around where I live a 1974 J-Bass body with ORIGINAL electronics to be roughly worth approx $300 to 700 dollars US depending on condition. A large part of that value is in the electronics. Used Mighty-Mite J-Bass neck with block inlays and Fender decal $100 US in excellent to mint condition. When you remove the neck there should be stickers or markings in the neck pocket of the body and also perhaps in the neck pickup cavity.

Photos of these stickers or markings would help too.


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