Description
Every P bass tone you’ve ever chased traces back to this decade. The American Original ’60s Precision Bass rebuilds that formula with a Pure Vintage ’63 split-coil pickup wound with enamel-coated wire and alnico 5 magnets under cloth-covered leads — the kind of period-correct spec that gives you that thick, forward midrange and grunt on the low strings without needing to touch a single knob mid-set.
Pick it up and the ‘1963 C’ neck profile fills your hand with real substance, not a slim modern taper trying to be everything. The 9.5" radius rosewood board and vintage-tall frets keep bending and fretting comfortable whether you’re locking in a groove or riding out a slide. Bone nut, four-saddle vintage-style bridge with threaded steel saddles, and Pure Vintage reverse open-gear tuners round out hardware that’s built to hold pitch and feel through long gigs, not just look the part.
The alder body wears a gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish that ages the way old P basses actually age — checking, dulling, picking up character instead of hiding under a plastic shell. Paired with the 4-ply brown shell pickguard and knurled flat-top knobs, this is the look and feel that put the Precision Bass on more records than anyone bothered to count.
- Alder body, maple neck, round-laminated rosewood fingerboard, 34" scale
- Pure Vintage ’63 split single-coil pickup with master volume/tone
- 4-saddle vintage-style bridge, Pure Vintage reverse open-gear tuners
- 20 vintage-tall frets, bone nut, vintage clay dot inlays
- Ships with Fender USA Bass 7250M strings (.045-.105) and hardshell case
If you want the sound that defined the electric bass and the feel to match, this is it — no reissue asterisks, just the real thing updated for a working player’s hands.
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