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Post subject: need help identifying my schools bass
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 3:33 am
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I fell in love with my highschool's bass to the point I stopped bringing my own to class just to use it and ditch over classes to get a 5 min jam sesh on it. Now I need your help to identify it so I could possibly buy my own somewhere. I'm not looking for an add or a price point at the moment just the name and some details on it.

Its a fender american made precision bass which was made either in 93 or 94 based off the serial number but seems to most likely be a 93 model.
There's are 2 nobs; one is black and says volume the other seems to be a tone nob that is slightly smaller. This nob is black with a silver solid circle on top.
There is also a toggle switch but that's it besides the output.
It has a white pick guard
The neck is all maple
22 frets

If you have any further questions feel free to ask me them. Thanks for helping.


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Post subject: Re: need help identifying my schools bass
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:09 am
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what is the serial number?
Can you post a picture of the bass?

22 frets and a toggle switch- does it have two pickups?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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Post subject: Re: need help identifying my schools bass
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:56 pm
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1993 was the last year of the George Blanda designed passive Precision Bass Plus which came out about 1989. The Plus had 22 frets coming with your choice of maple or rosewood fingerboard. So that fits your description.

The Plus had a couple of switches though, not just one. One was a 3-way pickup select toggle switch installed superior to the volume control and the other was a push on/push off phase reversal switch installed between the volume pot and the passive TBX tone pot. Neither switch was next to the jack though and originally both knobs matched being the metal flat top variety secured with a set screw to a solid shaft pot. Someone could easily have moved the switch and pots though.

The stock pickups were Fender/Lace Sensor pickups without exposed pole pieces.

I don't recall all the colors of pickguards available but 3 ply parchment, 3 ply black and 4 ply tortoise were used for sure. The hardware on these was some of the very finest Fender ever used in their entire history. They came with the Fender branded Elite fine-tuning bridge custom made for Fender by Schaller in Germany that had also been used on the Fender Elite models previously and is a heck of a bridge. The tuners were of the over-sized cast ultralight variety also made by Schaller in Germany. These days the down-sized version of these tuners are still used on high end USA Fenders.

The Precision Plus has a nickname because of the extended top horn. The extended length on the upper horn was necessary for good balance of the new design. They are now referred to as a "Fender Boner Bass." They have a real following among some players who love them. They are a tad heavy to me but they are really nice players and sound amazing for a passive.

The active Plus Deluxe made at this same time had no pickguard and no switch having the typical active Kubicki stacked control arrangement of the era instead. So I don't think that is the one at your school.

So I'm GUESSING from 22 frets and a toggle switch that it might be a Precision Bass Plus at your school that someone modified the controls on for whatever reasons. For example the volume pot went bad so they replaced it with a split shaft pot that required a push on volume knob and they also moved the pots and toggle switch into different holes that they found more logical for them. Really would be easy to put it right if you had the original knob and got the right solid shaft pot for it. Oddly the decal on both the Plus and Plus Deluxe Precisions only says "Fender Precision Bass" even though they obviously are very different from what we normally picture as a traditional P-Bass. Since the model name is not on them anywhere people don't really know what they are.

If you write the serial down and email it to consumerrelations@fender.com requesting all available data they just might have something definitive on it.

If a Precision Plus that is a really nice bass that is still relatively affordable in the used market in the USA compared to others that are far more numerous such as a new American Standard. At the time the Plus was the best passive P-Bass Fender was making. If I was buying one I'd want one that was 100% stock because stock ones have a lot of potential for value increase over the next several decades. NOTE: Many of these have bridges missing one or more of the fine-tuning adjustment screws, so make sure they are all there if you buy one as the screws are only obtainable if you buy an entire bridge now.

Here's a Precision Plus (Boner) currently for sale on eBay but I don't know if it is all stock but it is very close to all stock.

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