78 Jazz bass

[tomdbass]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1978-Fender-Jaz ... 23262a3aff

[andrew]

I LOVE the look of this bass.

[Lefty007]

That body looks suspicious. Looks like ash with a sunburst? Rare. Also, 1978 was heavy-poly times - the arm wear makes is look like a nitro finish. . . Maybe it's a refinished ash body in nitro?

[Matt R.]

My '78 Precision has similar wear. It's definitely heavy poly too. Was probably someone's main axe and they played the shit out of it.

[pjmuck]

That body looks suspicious. Looks like ash with a sunburst? Rare. Also, 1978 was heavy-poly times - the arm wear makes is look like a nitro finish. . . Maybe it's a refinished ash body in nitro?

My thoughts exactly. Never seen an ash sunburst '78 before...until I googled it and came up with this:

http://www.gbase.com/gear/fender-jazz-b ... 8-sunburst

I have seen lots of sunburst ash Strats, however.

[andrew]

I'd bid on this but the seller doesn't allow Canuks to bid on his auctions because he won't ship to Canada.

[screambasses]

This bass should go into a book as an example of how to correctly relic an instrument.


pete

[andrew]

Can one of you fine USA citizens message the seller to see if they'll let a Canuk place a bid?

[belinmad]

Just tried... it doesn't let me send a question: " Unfortunately, this seller is not able to respond to your question. We suggest reviewing the item again to see if your answer is in the seller's listing."

very weird.

[Frenchy-Lefty]

Doesn't he have zero sellers feedback as well? He lives about 1hr and half from me but I am not planning on traveling that way unfortunately.

[belinmad]

No bids on this one so far. Why the skepticism?

[screambasses]

No bids on this one so far. Why the skepticism?

I'm watching to see what happens...

pete

[andrew]

No bids on this one so far. Why the skepticism?

I would happily bid on it if I could...

[Marc40a]

That finish cracking on the skunk stripe could be more than cosmetic. I've seen a truss rod start to force it's way out of the back of the neck on a P bass that age.

[Petethebassman]

That finish cracking on the skunk stripe could be more than cosmetic. I've seen a truss rod start to force it's way out of the back of the neck on a P bass that age.

Oh, really? On my '75 P-Bass there's similar finish cracking on the skunk stripe, though much less than on that '78 Jazz.

[Psycho Ward]

I'm going to bid on it, what the hell.

[Psycho Ward]

I see a bid, wasn't me, I'm staying out. Good luck!

[Frenchy-Lefty]

Someone got a badass deal! $1,135! Hopefully someone from the board

[Matt R.]

Someone got a badass deal! $1,135! Hopefully someone from the board

[andrew]