1966 Charcoal Frost Metallic Jazz Bass matching headstock

[ilan]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155449151236

Transition J with lollipops and bound/dots neck. This thing with the chrome covers will look stellar.

In my experience – best year for J's (for P's it's 1969 imho).

$9,826 BIN, free shipping from Japan. A good deal, I think.

[morrow]

I'm an old Fender guy , but I don't play them much now , still have some Pbasses. I'm not sure about good years , they were never consistent. Now I look on the Fender fanatics as a lunatic fringe.
And I'm baffled why someone might pay almost ten thousand for one.

[ilan]

I'm an old Fender guy , but I don't play them much now , still have some Pbasses. I'm not sure about good years , they were never consistent. Now I look on the Fender fanatics as a lunatic fringe.
And I'm baffled why someone might pay almost ten thousand for one.

If not for anything else then for its collector value. It's an original vintage Jazz, unmodified, in an extremely rare custom color. $10K is a bargain. And it's a very good bass, should you want to play it. Or flip it and make a profit.

[morrow]

I'm flummoxed by how the market has been driven up and remember when used basses were cheaper than new ones. 

Oh I know many are quite willing to pay a lot more , but it's progressed to the point of madness.

[Dave W]

That is lovely. And considering the vintage market, you're right, it's a very reasonable price.

[ilan]

I'm flummoxed by how the market has been driven up and remember when used basses were cheaper than new ones. 

Oh I know many are quite willing to pay a lot more , but it's progressed to the point of madness.

The new Les Paul Greenie comes in a $3.2K version, $20K custom shop version, and a $50K Collector's Edition. So $10K for a 1966 transition J all original crazy rare fin sounds good to me... to a point that I'm contemplating selling some basses to buy it.

[Dave W]

They aren't making any more 60s Fenders. And compared to today, relatively few were made. The market was much smaller back then, now you have more people chasing fewer guitars.

[4stringer77]

The drab dark grey isn't too far off from black. A more exciting color would probably go for even more.

[gearHed289]

I remember 60s J Basses selling for around 10K back before the economy crashed in 2008. Everything dropped after that, and then it all went crazy during covid.