Author Topic: '93 Fender USA Telecaster bass?????  (Read 1627 times)


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Re: '93 Fender USA Telecaster bass?????
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2011, 05:58:29 PM »
I am not sure what to make of that. Looks wrong can't put my finger on it.
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Re: '93 Fender USA Telecaster bass?????
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2011, 07:29:16 PM »
maybe the body contours strike you odd. the ad script is nutty. tmi.
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Re: '93 Fender USA Telecaster bass?????
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2011, 10:19:14 PM »
There certainly wasn't any production MIA  Fender Tele Bass in 93 and it's definitely not from the custom shop. Also it has a 4-saddle toploader bridge, unlikely Fender would have done that on a reissue of a first edition Tele Bass.

I am not sure what to make of that. Looks wrong can't put my finger on it.

The serial number is wrong. There should be no gap between the N and the digits. Also, in 93 it would have been on the front of the headstock. The truss rod adjusting hole location is wrong for a US Fender of that era, too far from the nut. And the grain on that headstock doesn't look like North American rock maple.

I suppose it could possibly be an Asian Fender never imported here, with faked US serial number. More likely it's a parts bass.

maybe the body contours strike you odd. the ad script is nutty. tmi.

You betcha. "it was under their father's bed for a long long time" LOL! You might expect that on a 53 or 63 bass, not a 93.

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Re: '93 Fender USA Telecaster bass?????
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2011, 09:34:32 PM »
Up to $900 with a day and a half left.  ???

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Re: '93 Fender USA Telecaster bass?????
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2011, 01:06:18 AM »
Over at the FDP the agreement seems to be that this is a Jay Turser JTB-401 body with a Squier 50's CV neck (or the Jay Turser's neck with a reshaped headstock) and a new decal.
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Re: '93 Fender USA Telecaster bass?????
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2011, 10:39:04 AM »
Could be. One way or another it's most certainly a fraud, whether the seller knows it or not.

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Re: '93 Fender USA Telecaster bass?????
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2011, 06:12:28 PM »
i sent this guy an e mail and i guess he cancelled the auction. i'm sick of these clowns screwing with people.
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Re: '93 Fender USA Telecaster bass?????
« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2011, 09:12:13 PM »
Good. That may mean it was an honest mistake on his part and he got screwed when he bought it. Or not.