You’re looking at a 1973 Fender Musicmaster
wiring harness including the pots and pickup. This harness came with a
disassembled Musicmaster Bass that I bought from a friend who took it apart and
did not get to putting it back together.
The pickup, is a six pole pickup identical to what was found in the Fender
Mustang guitar, and it the same as a Stratocaster pickup except that it does
not have the raised magnets, it’s a flat pole pickup, which is a more practical
pickup for a modern setup since the Stratocaster pickup was originally designed
for the guitar to be set up with a Wound G string. Although it is six poles
instead of four, these basses do tend to sound very good and can be heard in
music ranging from a John Mayer record all the way to Margaret Glaspy’s
band. The “toy bass” attitude is not
based in reality.
When the bass was taken apart, it appears that the ground wire was snipped
before the bridge was taken off, but I have the ground wire, and so if that
were reattached then this wiring harness would be ready to go. I do not have a multimeter to measure the
output of the pickup but did play this bass prior to it being taken apart and
everything worked fine. Priced to move.
