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Post subject: Re: Identifying Fender Precision Bass
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:52 am
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The Black P- bass pictured is not a legit Fender bass.
The tuners are not Fender or Schaller, the neck transition to the back of the headstock is wrong.
The neck plate is too rounded and the pickguard does not follow the lower horn correctly.

The decal is a reproduction on a Korean (I suspect) made neck.
The front of the head stock is in a satin finish, when TV logos were used they were always buried under coats of lacquer to melt them into the finish of the neck. This was to discourage conterfeiting back in the 70's! The rest of the necks were polyurethane, that's why a real Fender neck, from the 1970's, tends to yellow on the headstock face while the rest of the neck stays whiter.

The EMG pickup is probably a real EMG unit but that's not a Fender part anyway.

The bridge could be a legit Fender part, I don't know without more pictorial evidence.

Save your money, unless you are buying it as a player. It may be a good bass, it just not a real Fender bass.

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