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Post subject: Vintage Mustang Questions
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 7:38 pm
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howdy,

so i've been going to this small local guitar shop for the past 6 months and drooling over a '78 Mustang Bass. i'd never gotten to mess around with a short scale before and i was quickly falling in love with that beautiful tiny bastard... it had some fret buzz up around the 10th fret but other than that it seemed pretty cherry.

i couldn't help myself and ended up shelling out the loot for it, so i brought it home and started playing around with it. after trying to fix the buzz by adjusting the string height (to no avail) i took the neck off to try and play around with the truss rod, annnnnnnnnd that's when i started cursing the guy at the guitar shop.

first and foremost, busted truss rot nut...
secondly, cracked and poorly glued fretboard right above the truss rod nut (seems like somebody got frustrated over tightening the nut).
and the logical third problem, no more play left in the truss rod.

so i plan on getting a new truss rod nut and adding a couple washers to get some grip back but i need some help from y'all.
stewmac sells the nuts but under 2 different thread sizes: 8-32 and 10-32, and for the life of me i can't find which one goes on a '78 Mustang Bass, anyone who knows definitively please let me know!!
as far as the washers go, i can't find any that are small enough to fit in the neck AND have a hole large enough for the truss rod.

also, i ran the serial number and it falls in line with a bass from 1978 but i started scratching my head when i looked at the heel of the neck and saw a clearly marked stamp that reads 1983.... now that doesn't make sense for a couple reasons, most of all because fender stopped making the Mustang in 1981.

any insight you guys have would really help me out.

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Post subject: Re: Vintage Mustang Questions
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:30 pm
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Hey Dude- I've been playing Fender basses since 1966. Since it sounds like any vintage value is gone(hopefully not), I would probably try to save what you can. Check around for a replacement neck and save the old one to reinstall should you try to sell it @ some later date. Did you check into new frets? Fender sells them pre-cut @ a decent $. Good Luck & may Leo's ghost visit your friends @ that shop. JB


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Mustang Questions
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:55 pm
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is that all the stamp says? 1983?


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Mustang Questions
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:32 pm
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The heel of the neck has one or two inspection stamps but then right in the middle is the bold 1983. I'll take a picture within the next couple days and post it up here


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Mustang Questions
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:19 pm
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Serial number too please.


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Mustang Questions
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:56 pm
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sorry for the delay, heres what i got


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Mustang Questions
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:15 pm
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Is there any reason you can't take this back to the store?
Get them to fix it or refund it or something like that?

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Post subject: Re: Vintage Mustang Questions
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:03 pm
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Is there anything on the end of the neck? The stampings you show are on the paddle where it attaches to the instrument. The date stamp is usually on the end. I'm not sure this is a date stamp, but it could be.


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