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Post subject: Precision bass pick up color?
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:25 am
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Looking at buying a Precision bass from "original owner", was told it was purchased new from local music store in '77, but serial number on neck plate and low finger rest make it look like '72-'73. It has bone colored (maybe originally white) pickup, owner says was like that when purchased new in '77. Anyone know when Fender started putting white pickups on Precision basses?


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Post subject: Re: Precision bass pick up color?
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:44 am
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A mod for Dimarzio pu ?

Many answer with google , here few ;

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https://www.talkbass.com/threads/white- ... ss.710310/


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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:49 pm
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cimchazz1 wrote:
Looking at buying a Precision bass from "original owner", was told it was purchased new from local music store in '77, but serial number on neck plate and low finger rest make it look like '72-'73. It has bone colored (maybe originally white) pickup, owner says was like that when purchased new in '77. Anyone know when Fender started putting white pickups on Precision basses?


Original owner has a fuzzy memory. While it is true a new Fender Precision bass could lay around 5 years unsold at a retail store it is absolutely untrue that white pickup was original in 77 or 72/73 either. Either the instrument was bought used after being modified or the original owner modified it. Someone modified it for sure. Fender first went to white pickup covers in 1982 on SOME bass models which continued until the Fender CBS era ended at Fullerton. Should be easy to tell by looking at the pickup backs for date codes.


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