frettedamericana | 1 decade ago
http://www.frettedamericana.com/fender_bass_vi_1963-d-1156-0.html
This remarkable custom color 1963 Bass VI weighs in at just 9.00 lbs. Offset asymmetrical solid alder body and matching Burgundy Mist headstock. Maple neck with a medium profile and a veneer Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 21 original medium frets and clay dot position markers. Individual Kluson 'double-line' Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons (stamped on the underside D-169400/Patent No.). This guitar has an "A" neck with a nut width of just over 1 1/2 inches and a short bass scale length of 30 inches. Single "butterfly" string with nylon spacer. Headstock decal with "Fender VI" logo in gold with black trim and "Electric Bass Guitar" and three patent numbers in black below it. Small circular "Offset Contour Body" decal on the ball end of the headstock. Four-bolt neck plate with serial number "L98109" between the top two screws. Three Jaguar-style (white six-polepiece) pickups with serrated chrome surrounds and outputs of 6.07k, 5.96k, and 6.11k. Three-layer (white/black/white) ABS plastic pickguard with bevelled edge and fourteen screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) and jack input on lower metal plate adjoining pickguard and four two-way pickup selector switches (one for each pickup, the fourth being a 'frequency' switch) all on a metal plate inset into the pickguard. Seven-sided black plastic knobs with white markings. Six-saddle bridge with adjustable mute and separate vibrato tailpiece. The neck is stamped "6 MAY 63A" and the pots are stamped "137 6528" (CTS, July, 1965). Complete with the original tremolo arm and bridge cover. This exceptionally rare custom color Bass Vl is in near mint (9.25++) condition. It has hardly ever been played and probably never spent more than a day out of its case. To be super critical - the only marks on this forty-seven year old beauty are a couple of tiny and very insignificant indentations on the back, a couple of tiny surface marks on the sides and some very light finish checking. There is no wear to the frets or the fretboard. The Burgundy Mist color is rich and unfaded. Quite simply - the finest Burgundy Mist Bass Vl on the Planet - "The stuff that dreams are made of" as said by the immortal Sam Spade! Housed in its original Fender black hardshell case with black leather ends and burnt orange plush lining (8.75).
