Description
This Fender 62 Reissue Jazz Bass Sunburst was built during 1982 in Fullerton, California and looking like it was used as intended. The neck is hand-dated as 12-23-82, and the body's neck pocket stamp reads Nov 18 1982.
Launched for 1982 in Fullerton, the Fender 62 Reissue Jazz Bass was an early effort to truly capture the original style of the Jazz Bass. The original Jazz Bass models were introduced in 1960 as an attempt to capture the rest of the professional bass player market that hadn’t migrated to the Precision Bass. One of the key features, aside from the narrower Rosewood ‘Slab’ fingerboard (the fingerboard bottom is flat, rather than a veneer on a curved Maple neck) is the use of concentric pots for individual volume and tone controls.
There’s also a copper grounding strap running from the bridge pickup cavity to the bridge itself. The pickguard is an original-style faux tortoise part that looks quite good over the 3-tone sunburst characteristic of 1960’s Fender instruments.
This bass is in overall good condition, with belt-buckle and other wear to the back, and wear through the neck finish on the bass side from the second to fifth frets showing that it was used for regularly for its intended purpose. The body finish has a fair amount of checking very much like an original.
The headstock decal is period correct and is in good shape with wear typical to early 1960's production. A marking of '07/84' between the G tuner and the headstock end is unexplained, but given the neck and body dates is not related to instrument production.
Fret and fingerboard wear are light, suggesting that it has consistently been used with flat or ground-wound strings. It plays very well and is quite lively and resonant.
A non-original black hard shell case is included.
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DETAILS:
- Instrument Model: 1962 Reissue Jazz Bass
- Instrument Manufacturer: Fender
- Instrument year: 1982
- Instrument Finish: Sunburst
- Instrument Class: Vintage
- Instrument serial number: V011792, built during late 1982 in Fullerton CA
- Country of Origin: USA
- Instrument Condition: Very Good Relic'ed
- Right-handed
- CITIES Documentation Required: No
- Case included: Yes
- Case original: No
- Case Type: Hard
- Instrument Weight Imperial: 8.64 lbs
- Instrument Weight Metric: 3.92 kgs
- Scale Length Imperial: 34 in
- Scale Length Metric: 863.6 mm
- Nut Width Imperial: 1.52 in
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Nut Width Metric: 38.65 mm
- Items in Case: N/A
- Consignment: Yes
- Product ID: 189969
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