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Post subject: Validate my friend's claim
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:26 pm
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I need the valuable help of the knowledgable folks viewing this forum. Is there such an instrument as a Fender PJ bass made in 1976? My friend tells me his old bass is a PJ but I can find no information on the web for a PJ. If PJ is valid, then what do the letters represent?

Thanks for the help,

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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:53 pm
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Welcome to the forum !

Got any pictures ? serial number , neck plate ,body , headstock ?

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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:22 pm
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Im a pretty new bass player but i do know that the letters PJ stand for precision/jazz which means the guitar has a precision /jazz pickup configuration and thats as far as i can go.
Someone on here will be able to tell you about vintage fenders.


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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:35 pm
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I checked on a book that I have and the Pbass with a pj pickup configuration came after the 1980's .

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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:13 pm
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No pictures but the serial number on the neck plate is 691218. The Question remains, is ther such an animal as a 'PJ' ?

thanks for your help and interest.

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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:06 pm
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According to the serial number it could be a '75 or '76 . But I doubt that there was a factory made PJ model bass in those years . Im assuming that is for the pickup configuration . It could be a signature model or a custom bass . Who knows! But I did find that there was a rare Pbass with a maple jazz bass neck with binding and block inlays but the headstock says Precision bass .

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Post subject: Re: Validate my friend's claim
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:06 pm
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thomasdjt wrote:
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I need the valuable help of the knowledgable folks viewing this forum. Is there such an instrument as a Fender PJ bass made in 1976? My friend tells me his old bass is a PJ but I can find no information on the web for a PJ. If PJ is valid, then what do the letters represent?

Thanks for the help,

DJT


There are reviews on Harmony-Central for a bass called a "Fender PJ" which was a Japanese made bass from about 83 to 86 or 87. They were not for export. However a few found their way to the USA. Tokai had the Fender Japanese contract in those days so it would have been made by Tokai. Here's the link: http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Electric+Bass/product/Fender/P+J+Bass/10/1

I doubt that is the same bass you are talking about as it would have a Japanese serial and yours doesn't. So, YES! There was a Fender PJ. And NO! You don't have one.

"PJ" is now a fairly common way to describe a bass pickup arrangement that has one Precision bass style split single coil "humbucking" pickup in the neck position and one Jazz Bass single coil style pickup in the bridge position. This PJ arrangement has been, and (is still being) used by many manufacturers and not just Fender.

Fender has made various designs with this pickup arrangement starting in the 1980's. Usually these basses are formally referred to in the USA as "Precision Bass Specials" and also will usually have a Jazz bass neck profile.

If the bass you are asking about is an unmodified '76 Precision it should have the single split coil Precision pickup with one volume control and one tone control and no Jazz pickup.

If you have a '76 serial but it also has both the Precision and a Jazz bass pickup then one of two things has happened.
1. It has been modified to add the jazz pickup.
2. Someone put a '76 neck or serial number neckplate on a later P-bass special. People swap parts around all the time.

There are posts in other Precision forum threads on how to date the bass using neck dates, pot dates and body dates as that has been addressed in other threads. So if you wish to go that route then try a forum search.

Hope that helps sort it out for you.


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