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Post subject: What is this 66-67 serial on np? Parts..assembled
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:29 pm
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I have this "Fender Jazz Bass" it has a 66-67 serial #10648x neck plate....80-83 P Special (first actve Fender) thumb holder and bridge (with script "Fender" each..should be gold) and neck with bullet truss, brass nut, and a logo I can't place.
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Have pic's but this is my first post and not sure how to post.....sugesstions?


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Post subject: Re: What is this 66-67 serial on np? Parts..assembled
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 1:26 am
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About everything you want to know about this instrument is probably here:
http://www.riverband.demon.nl/special.html

That is it right?


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Post subject: Re: What is this 66-67 serial on np? Parts..assembled
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:49 am
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Well I found a post that a guy has the same neck...exact....so it's a Vietnam/Philippine copy neck?
http://forums.vintageguitarandbass.com/ ... -have-here


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Post subject: Re: What is this 66-67 serial on np? Parts..assembled
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 2:32 pm
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The one in the link you posted is an Asian knockoff. Lots of these came back to the USA during the Vietnam conflict with returning GI's who went through various layover stops. Manila was especially notorious for these. There US Copyrights meant nothing.

There was one large Filipino operation that was slightly more legitimate going by the name "FINDER" who used the Fender logo script design changing the e in "Fender" to an i and copied not only Fender guitars but also Fender amps right down to the knobs, Tolex and grillcloth. Finder amps were actually not too bad! Finder actually published catalogs and were considered a legitimate brand there and not counterfeits. Finder amps were on par with Silvertone and Teisco amps of the day. Other smaller renegade operations, often a family project in a hut, outright used bogus Fender and Gibson decals that didn't match up with the real USA decals, as is the case with the one in the link you posted. Buying a "Fender" or "Gibson" guitar for 1/5th the price back home seemed like a bargain to naive GI's. These things still pop up from time to time. I gave them a nickname, a HOOTCH BASS. Some are very crude and others more sophisticated but they all pretty easy to spot due the oddball hardware they almost always used and of course the oddball decals.


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