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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:08 am
by henry5
You and me too Bob! I didn't even see that one!
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:42 am
by bob_atherton
Shaun, I would have sent you an email if I had thought/known. There will be others mate, but that one was just a bit special IMHO... )-:
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:56 am
by beatlefan
Wints - Mine was definitely an "MF"....hard to forget THAT one.... lol
Yeah, I'll dig...I had some pics from my front porch...I'll find 'em....
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:19 am
by rickcrazy
Well, it's not the absent 'adjustment crack' that gives the pickguard away as a non-original part - it's the crudely cut pickup hole, the shape of the pickguard shoulder by the neck, and the squared-off pickguard edge.
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:32 am
by 4005player
Andrew - "With small inlays, but with an MC serial number?!"
If yours has inlays that do not cover the full width of the fingerboard, then something is wrong....I believe April (MD), or possibly May (ME) of '73 was the last month to have full-width inlays. So if your serial# is MC and yours lacks full width inlays, then something is rotten in Denmark!
Sergio - good pickguard analysis!
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:04 am
by henry5
Bob, no worries, but thanks for the thought. To be honest if I went out and spent that much on another bass at the moment I think I'd find myself living out the rest of the year in the garden shed...although it may have been worth it! A bit special indeed...