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Post subject: P-Bass Neck Question
Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 8:52 pm
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I own a 1970 P-Bass that I acquired in 1978. The fretboard is rosewood veneer but it also sports a skunkstripe on the back of the neck. I have never seen another P-Bass with this neck configuration in the 32 years I have owned mine. All the solid Maple neck P-Basses I've seen have the skunkstripe, but never a rosewood fretboard neck. I've always wondered if this was unusual or rare, but have never been able to track down any info on it. Any info anyone??


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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 10:15 pm
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I just looked on ebay and there was a 1979 Fender Precision neck with a rosewood fingerboard and skunk stripe. I am guessing it isn't really rare. Probably just Fender taking a maple neck and adapting it for a rosewood fingerboard depending on the need of the company at the time.


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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:02 am
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Your neck is probable a 1978. Fender started putting all of their truss rods in from the back of the neck in the late 70's, so all necks got skunk stripes for a while.

I have a couple of rosewood necks with skunk stripes.

Another point to make is that " veneer " fingerboard actually started out as a slab. Leo decided that the necks were stronger when the slab was rounded on the bottom and mated to a countoured maple neck to increase the neck strength.

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