This Bass has cosmetic scratches due to a fellow Bassist who played my Bass when I was in the Army for two years. He did not take care of it as I did but it still functions very well. It has brand new strings(flat wound) and sounds just like when it was new. I just used it a month ago at my church musical program and sounded very good. I am willing to throw in the Black Fender Case with it. It to has some cosmetic blemishes but protects the Bass guitar well. It has been with me for 55 years excluding the two years I was in the Army. Had some good times with it. Hate to part with it but it is time to let it go. Some FYI notes: The Bass neck is a 7.25 inch Radius Flat C neck with a Veneer Rosewood Fret Board. All original components. Nothing has been changed electronically. The only thing that has been changed are the strings. Brand new strings on it now.
Around the middle of 1957, Fender made another very important change to the Precision Bass, replacing the single coil pickup with a split-coil design. This is actually a humbucking pickup, but Fender couldn't call that out in advertising or catalogs due to the fact that Seth Lover's patent hadn't yet run out. This era also sees the headstock shape change into something that more closely matched the Stratocaster model.
In late 1959, a slab rosewood fretboard with clay dot inlays was introduced, as was the case with the entire Fender line. In mid-'62, this changes to a thinner rosewood veneer, and then the clay dots were replaced with pearl dots in '64.
This was the last run of P-Basses made before the CBS buyout in 1965.
