Here’s a hardworking 1966 Fender Jazz Bass.
Introduced in 1960, Leo Fender’s Jazz Bass tends to have a tighter, more focused tone that doesn’t emphasize the fundamental frequencies as much as the Precision bass does. This helps it to move ‘forward’ in an audio mix, making it more popular in emerging musical styles where there was more emphasis on the bass – for example, rock power trios and funk.
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This is a 2012 Gretsch G6199B Billy Bo Jupiter Thunderbird Bass! Thought up by Billy Gibbons, Bo Diddley and Gretsch, the 30.0 inch scale Billy Bo Bass really stands out on stage and on track.
The Jupiter Thunderbirds are based on a very few instruments Bo Diddley had built at the Gretsch factory around 1959. After it came into the possession of Billy Gibbons and appeared on several ZZ Top recordings, Gibbons approached Gretch with the idea of making it a production model partly to have some for touring! The guitar model is the G6199.
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Here’s a Fender Precision Bass from 1967. The P-Bass has been the most successful bass instrument ever, and appears on more recordings in more styles than any other bass.
Extremely durable as well as versatile, these basses just keep going.
MORE →Here is a very nice Rickenbacker 4001 bass from 1980 selling for $1750
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The Hofner 500/1 ‘Beatle Bass’ is one of the most recognizable instruments ever. It’s appeared on countless recordings, many of them rather well known hits.
This is the 1964 Reissue model, special ordered in left-handed. It is in as-new condition and has never been played.
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From time to time, our repair shop is asked to do something a little out of the ordinary.
Converting an electric bass to fretless is pretty standard, but what isn’t so standard is just converting part of the fingerboard to fretless, with frets at either end.
Here are a few images of a conversion performed in The Twelfth Fret’s Repair Shop by Dave Hill.
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