62 Bass VI...Finally!

[tsalwel]

thanks guys
got the '62 and Jazz bass out the other day...
for like only the 4th time since MARCH

started planting my field
didn't even get half of what i wanted to accomplish this fall...
my brothers didn't help me AT ALL
and now the ground's frozen...


this VI may have been listed a few times over the last few years, but i don't believe it sold every time...
i dunno

hey alfred !
how are you ?
and the trouble with your  sister ?

this VI may have been listed a few times over the last few years, but i don't believe it sold every time...
i dunno[/quote]



true !

brian do what ever you like ........
just dont cut the headstock to make it look " like a spear "     


  d                                                                                        irk !

[Angel221]

Hey Brian , i got a guy in Cleveland that does some fine refin work. Thats if you still go there. If your interested i'll send you his email address.
Angel

[bulrich]

Hah Dirk! I think you're referencing my first 63 VI which someone cut the headstock to look like a spear. It seems I have some vintage VI curse because it seems you all are right and this is the original neck with a insanely modified headstock. (I wonder what ever happened to my old 63, last I saw it was on Ebay and refined in Oly White).

Angel, yes pls. send that info. Great to hear from you.

I also believe the neck is a 'A' width. Why Fender would make a smaller width neck for a VI, who knows. The bigger question is why would someone make a Gibson style headstock out of the Fender and how can I restore it? It's got to be a mess under the veneer.

Pics.





So somewhere underneath that veneer is the remnants of this:


I've my work cut out for me (no pun intended)

[tsalwel]

Hah Dirk! I think you're referencing my first 63 VI which someone cut the headstock to look like a spear

.......and then i hit BIN without knowing what was gonna happen .....and.... i just bought a guitar  .......
anyway i'm ( well half  ...since that fucking bank took half of your money  ) pleased we solved that because ...
we meet again 
still in the phototeaching ?

 
Why Fender would make a smaller width neck for a VI, who knows...my 63 ? has a 62 A neck 








this one is gonna need a lot of love & care !!!


  d

[eggwheat]

All fender VI's have an 'A' width neck this is standard..

[eggwheat]

Oh and the 'spear' fender VI...I believe I ended up with this guitar though someone had done a poor job of fixing it..here's a pic

[tsalwel]

Oh and the 'spear' fender VI...I believe I ended up with this guitar though someone had done a poor job of fixing it..here's a pic

that's the one                                                                                                                                                                                                            i almost ended up with

                                                              used to be black


  d

[bulrich]

Eggwheat. Yes that was my first one you have there.
I bought it in about 1999 from a Guitar Center in Cleveland. I had asked them to track me down a MIJ one and one day I walked in a saw that one. It was black body, missing the trem arm and trem arm bushing. Someone also strangely locked the trem in place with a nasty screw (left all kinds of weird dents on the trem plate).
A great instrument. I sold it to help fund a move to Chicago and instead built one of the 1st USACG VI"s. Still play to replica often but love the 62's they really have a different feel tone. It's gonna be some real sweat to get it back up and running.

[bassVIst]

All fender VI's have an 'A' width neck this is standard..

there's a vintage Bwidth VI or two out there...
didn't somebody on the FDP have one??

i dunno if i have any photos or not...

[bassVIst]

that is AWESOME!

[bulrich]

Alfred, not that awesome!!
It'll be a bear to fix. Didn't you say you know someone who could repair it? I don't have the tools to do it myself.

Maybe I can make a trip up to MI and copy the shape of your 62.
I could help plant some berries.

[dain]

this thread is going to get even cooler...unfortunatly it will probably get more expensive as well 

but you have to tell who ever does the repair to put picks up on this site!

[jetset]

There was a blue Strat that had it's headstock repaired almost as drastically.  The owner was trying to sell it on eBay without mentioning the surgery.  It was a very good job though, down to carefully painting on woodgrain over the filler.

Here's the pic set: http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/ ... 3%20resto/

[OffYourFace]

I knew it! 

[glimmertwin]

There was a blue Strat that had it's headstock repaired almost as drastically.  The owner was trying to sell it on eBay without mentioning the surgery.  It was a very good job though, down to carefully painting on woodgrain over the filler.

Here's the pic set: http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/ ... 3%20resto/

That's amazing.