frettedamericana | 1 decade ago
http://www.frettedamericana.com/product/1965-fender-precision-bass-maple-cap
This 13-inch-wide lightweight "dream" bass guitar weighs just 8.90 lbs. Solid alder body contoured on back and lower bass bout. One-piece maple neck with a wonderful medium profile, a full bass scale length of 34 inches and a nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches. Exceptionally rare maple-cap fretboard with 20 original medium-to-thick frets and black dot position markers. Single circular string tree. Fender cloverleaf tuners. Headstock with Fender transition logo, with "Fender" in silver with black trim, "Precision Bass" beneath, and beneath that "Pat. 2,968,204 2,976,755 2,573,254 3,143,028 Des. 187,001". Four-bolt neckplate with the serial number "L91146" stamped between the top two screws. One split black eight-polepiece pickup with a great, fat output of 10.57k. Four-layer tortoiseshell over white and black plastic pickguard with thirteen screws. Two controls (one volume and one tone). Knurled chrome knobs with flat tops. Combined four-saddle bridge/tailpiece and both original bridge and pickup covers. The neck is stamped on the end "5 JUL 65 C" and has "R + R" written in black marker on the underside. The potentiometers are both stamped 137 6534 (CTS, August 1965). An exceptional example of the rarest of all precision basses. There is one very small wear spot on the fretboard by the third fret and a couple of very small and insignificant marks/indentations on the back of the neck. That being said this super rrae bass is in near mint (9.25) condition. Housed in its original Fender three-latch rectangular black hardshell case with black leather ends and reddish orange plush lining (8.50).
