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Rare 1968 Fender Telecaster Bass unfortunately parted out

Posted: October 4th, 2023, 5:19 pm
by paulo

Re: Rare 1968 Fender Telecaster Bass unfortunately parted ou

Posted: October 4th, 2023, 7:48 pm
by bbl
Seller says the bass "came with some homemade body ...that was a fine piece of wood but had been butchered ..by someone ......who had no idea"

Re: Rare 1968 Fender Telecaster Bass unfortunately parted ou

Posted: October 4th, 2023, 8:15 pm
by paulo
From what I've seen these where often butchered by righty players who played them with reverse headstock.

Re: Rare 1968 Fender Telecaster Bass unfortunately parted ou

Posted: October 5th, 2023, 11:17 am
by Marc40a
paulo wrote:From what I've seen these where often butchered by righty players who played them with reverse headstock.

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Re: Rare 1968 Fender Telecaster Bass unfortunately parted ou

Posted: October 5th, 2023, 7:30 pm
by bobjones2260
Ya think he could get a pair of tweezers and get that hair off where the D string is?

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Re: Rare 1968 Fender Telecaster Bass unfortunately parted ou

Posted: October 5th, 2023, 11:31 pm
by crescenze
Looks like the head stock is refinished & the decal isn't original. It's not under the finish and I don't believe it's the correct configuration.

Re: Rare 1968 Fender Telecaster Bass unfortunately parted ou

Posted: October 6th, 2023, 12:31 am
by Bootsy
3000 USD for a neck? Ridiculous.
There was an 1968 Tele Lefty Neck for sale last year for I guess 400-500 USD that was a fair price...

Re: Rare 1968 Fender Telecaster Bass unfortunately parted ou

Posted: October 6th, 2023, 12:10 pm
by donahue
I have a '68 righty neck that's missing the logo I'll sell right now for $600.

Re: Rare 1968 Fender Telecaster Bass unfortunately parted ou

Posted: October 6th, 2023, 12:16 pm
by bbl
^ Sounds like the start of a Dusty Hill bass project!

Re: Rare 1968 Fender Telecaster Bass unfortunately parted ou

Posted: October 6th, 2023, 3:43 pm
by paulo
bobjones2260 wrote:Ya think he could get a pair of tweezers and get that hair off where the D string is?

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If you look at that bridge you can clearly tell it was setup to play righty so no wonder the body is not listed, someone must have chopped the upper horn and moved the controls.

Re: Rare 1968 Fender Telecaster Bass unfortunately parted ou

Posted: October 7th, 2023, 8:33 am
by bbl
It was a HOMEMADE body.

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