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Post subject: 1968 Precision bass with different tuning pegs
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:44 pm
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I have a 1968 fender precision bass I bought around 1976. It's the only fender bass I've seen that doesn't have clover leaf shape on tuning pegs. This bass has oval tuning pegs. Does anyone know when this took place? Did they issue basses with oval tuning pegs at some point? Don't know how to send a picture on this site.


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Post subject: Re: 1968 Precision bass with different tuning pegs
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:35 pm
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Create an account within a free picture host (ImageShack, Photobucket, Flickr) and upload your photos there. Then copy and paste the IMG code containing your uploaded media.

Regarding your question. The lollipop tuners were also used on the Precision, but they got them later, around '67 or '68. They were not any sort of option, but just one of two styles of tuners made by Schaller for Fender circa 1965.

The lollipops disappear around 1969 and Schaller BMFLs took over some time in 1976.


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Post subject: Re: 1968 Precision bass with different tuning pegs
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:54 pm
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The Jazz Bass had initially a bound neck with dots but CBS replaced later the dot-shaped position markers with rectangular blocks.

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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:05 am
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My 68 Telecaster Bass also had the oval paddles. Sometimes you'll hear them called "Butterbean" tuners too.


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Post subject: Re: 1968 Precision bass with different tuning pegs
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:14 pm
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In 68 my friends mom bought him a P bass with a walnut body and oval tuners.


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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:00 pm
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There's no walnut P-Bass in 1968.

The first walnut Precision came out from the Fullerton factory in the early 1980s. CBS did Mocha Brown guitars during the mid 1970s.


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Post subject: Re: 1968 Precision bass with different tuning pegs
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:59 am
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well then what was it? - He (my friend) stripped the bass ( around 1970) of it's sunburst finish and I saw the brown wood and played the bass with no finish and the brownish wood that looked a lot like walnut. Alder and Maple and ash are all blonde wood... so is basswood... poplar is blonde with green grain when its wet then turns to blonde and brown when dried. Maybe mahogany? Oh well.....knowing that it is a possibility that they used walnut for a body is okay-- probably the first production basses to purposely have walnut bodies is what you mean. My 74 P bass is poplar. Most all of those were alder. So let's not dismiss out of hand that Fender never used different woods here and there. I read the book and it seems totally possible they may have used other woods if they ran short or if they got a good deal. They used scrap pieces for the wallpaper tele basses. :)


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