05/07/2022
...Good Saturday morning bass guitar fans everywhere. Lets talk vintage, and when I say vintage, I mean close to the beginning for one guitar manufacturer who survived through the ages...Fender.
..In todays post we will look at a 1952 Fender Precision bass. I was a only 3 years old when this guitar was built. This was an interesting instrument to put back into its original condition and involved a lot of research. Finding original parts was not easy, and when you did find an original part, it was sky high expensive. for example, I wanted to replace the volume potentiometer with an original part. The only one I could find came in at a whopping $575.00. Since the guitar had been modified (like most of these earliest models), it was hard to justify many of the original part prices. During my research, an original 1952 Precision bass, intact, with all original parts, with case and not modified, came in at a cool $32,000.00. But even the ones that had been modified through the years still brought a respectable $15,000.00 to $20,000.00 price tag.
..It was a pleasure to put it back into the hands of the owner. This guitar was built the second year of Fenders venture into the electric bass guitar.
..Please enjoy the stroll down memory lane with this second year model of the Fender Precision Bass...
