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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 7:02 pm
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bass player in my band scored a squier precision bass with a fender neck and he's trying to find a round-about date for when the neck was manufactured.
data on the neck are:
PAT 2,573,254 2,968,204 3,143,028 2,976,755
any help on decoding would be appreciated... and any help pointing to where we might have missed something important would be helpful.
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:49 am
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Remove the neck and look for date codes on the heel of the neck. There probably is something there.

Patent number 2573254 is Clarence L. Fender’s US Patent for the Combination Bridge & Pickup Plate on the original Broadcaster/NoCaster/Telecaster guitars still in use today. It has no relation to a Precision Bass whatsoever other than it is a Fender Patent. Click following link to view the Patent:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2573254.pdf

Patent number 2968204 is Clarence L. Fender’s US Patent for the Stratocaster pickup. It is more closely related a bit to the Jazz Bass as it uses a somewhat similar pickup design, but has little to do with a second generation Precision Bass. Click following link to view the Patent:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2968204.pdf

Patent number 3143028 is Clarence L. Fender’s US Patent for “Adjustable Neck Construction For Guitars And The Like.” This has to do with his improved truss rod design which was an innovation in 1964. Your bass would benefit from this one. Click following link to view the Patent:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3143028.pdf

Patent number 2976755 is Clarence L. Fender’s US Patent for the split coil pickup design used on the Precision Bass since 1957. Your bass would have this pickup. Click the following link to view the Patent:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2976755.pdf

So all you can tell by the patent numbers is that it is post-1956 neck.


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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:11 am
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thank you very much brother dave.
i'll pass all this on to my other brother dave (the bass player in my band).

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