1983 Fender Jazz Bass Vintage Fullerton Great Affordable Player's Bass Dan Smith

Description: Not reissue! Cool old original affordable vintage 1983 Fender USA Jazz Bass, among the last of its kind for the old Fullerton Fenders. It's a player's bass, but a good one. Overall it's in very clean condition, no big chips or dings, although it does have the usual signs of wear you'd expect when you look closely. Neck is straight, plays great, frets are very clean. Main deal is that the truss rod seems to be stripped... I can't get it to turn, and it looks like someone tried to do some repair on it at some point... see the pics, look closely at the the mark just below the nut where it looks like some sort of small repair was done. But the good news is it doesn't need to turn -- the neck is straight and plays great and given that it's 40 years old, seems likely to stay that way. However obviously that's the main reason for the affordable price. Looks like it was refretted at some point, as the finish is stripped on the fingerboard and seems light on the back of the neck as well. The frets are clean though, lots of life. Tuners have been replaced with gold Wilkinsons. It's a four bolt thankfully, though the later neck plates for 83 were four bolts with a tilt neck adjustment hole -- this has no sign on body or neck of the tilt neck adjustment, but has the other marks of 1983 USA Fender Fullerton Jazz Basses such as no separate control plate, as you can see -- controls were built instead into the pick guard, so it must be one of the early 1983 transitional models. I opened it up to double check things... they look like the original Fender pickups, right color wire etc for the era, and they sound great, though I'm not an expert on these basses. Some experts say the later 1983 came with AVRI reissue vintage Fender pickups -- these don't look like they are those, but more standard Fender pickups of the era. Control cavity looks like it was slightly enlarged at some point, see pics. There's obviously been some resoldering at some point -- the pots match and are correct to the era, but I can't read any of the date codes under the solder, so I don't know if they're original, although they're correct for the bass, matching set of CTS 250k. At any rate I'm listing this at half the usual price for an '83 Fullerton jazz bass, so it's a great deal for a player's bass even with the mods -- good looking and playing instrument in overall very good cosmetic condition! Original Fender molded hard case in very good condition comes with it. It's by far the least expensive vintage Fullerton jazz bass on Ebay or Reverb, if you're not worried about the truss rod.Please look at all the pics including closeups so you know what you're getting. All the above points are reflected in price.... resulting in a nice affordable player's vintage Fender original 80s USA Jazz bass! Please see my other listings for more guitar and vintage guitar items.Please see my other listings for more vintage guitar stuff -- also please see my partner site, Madjazzman for more of the same. Check out my 100% feedback over thousands of items and 20 years on Ebay and you'll know you can bid with confidence! Please note I live in a rural area and may take 5 working days to ship.

Price: 1000 USD

Location: Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico

End Time: 2024-11-17T19:42:13.000Z

Shipping Cost: 125 USD