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Post subject: Re: Natural finish
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 2:19 pm
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i gotta say you got the deal of the century with that 69 P The jazz bass looks just as nice with the natural finish too


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Post subject: Re: Natural finish
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:33 pm
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Your '69 Precision looks great and that's a great story to go with it.

To answer the curious- Factory Natural finishes were not available on Fender basses in 1969. The standard finish was Sunburst and you paid extra for any color you ordered, unless it was a Telecaster bass which came in blond as the standard finish.

In reality custom colors were often ordered and never picked up or the order was cancelled and the dealer was stuck with a Foam green Jazz bass, for instance. If you were willing to take the color, you could get a discount because custom colors were often harder to move than the Sunburst instruments.
If you had the foresight to resist he urge to strip off the green finish and leave the bass original, You would have a very valuable bass today.


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Post subject: Re: Natural finish
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:48 pm
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affprod wrote:
These are my two natural finish Fenders. A 72 J and a 74 P. I'm actually left handed but grew up in a right handed world, so I do some stuff one way, some another. I can't imagine I could play a bass left handed, any more than I could write right handed.

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Except for the fretless neck, that's exactly the way my '76 P looked from the factory. Alder body unstained and just clear coated. White pick guard which I hated. I'm pretty sure I took off both chrome covers along with the thumbrest and threw them away on day one. I know they didn't last long. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Natural finish
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 3:19 pm
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Split_Pickup wrote:
Your '69 Precision looks great and that's a great story to go with it.

To answer the curious- Factory Natural finishes were not available on Fender basses in 1969. The standard finish was Sunburst and you paid extra for any color you ordered, unless it was a Telecaster bass which came in blond as the standard finish.

In reality custom colors were often ordered and never picked up or the order was cancelled and the dealer was stuck with a Foam green Jazz bass, for instance. If you were willing to take the color, you could get a discount because custom colors were often harder to move than the Sunburst instruments.
If you had the foresight to resist he urge to strip off the green finish and leave the bass original, You would have a very valuable bass today.


Awesome i did not know that i do know if i was around in 69 i woulda either done some stripping or saved up for a natural finish im looking to get a cbs era natural finish


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Post subject: Re: Natural finish
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 3:20 pm
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linnin wrote:
affprod wrote:
These are my two natural finish Fenders. A 72 J and a 74 P. I'm actually left handed but grew up in a right handed world, so I do some stuff one way, some another. I can't imagine I could play a bass left handed, any more than I could write right handed.

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Except for the fretless neck, that's exactly the way my '76 P looked from the factory. Alder body unstained and just clear coated. White pick guard which I hated. I'm pretty sure I took off both chrome covers along with the thumbrest and threw them away on day one. I know they didn't last long. :lol:

i like the grain on that p bass reminds me of the grain on my 79 strat that i sold


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