Vintage Fender Power Jazz Bass Special * Made in Japan * All Original
SKB Freedom Hard Shell Case Fuji-gen Plant (for Fender Japan), Japan
in 1984 - 1987
Production Number: 911163 Condition: Great overall condition for a bass of its age. Some light surface scratches and small nicks and dings, a chip on the edge of the fretboard that does not affect playability shown in Photo #11.
Frets have light play wear with lots of life left in them
The neck is straight and with nice action * truss rod, electronics and parts function as they should.
Lots of tone variations with that Fat Fender Growl ! Body: Solid contoured double-cutaway body in candy apple red finish. Top-load tailpiece/bridge with four individual saddles and skirted control knobs with Fender logo on top
* one knob is missing the Fender Logo too * Neck: Slender maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, pearloid dot inlays and a 1.5” nut. Headstock features a carbon fiber layer and black open-gear tuners. 34” scale length. Pickups/Electronics: Split single-coil pickup in the neck and a single-coil in the bridge. Active preamp includes controls for volume, frequency sweep, TBX tone control, 3-way toggle with settings for passive, low freq boost and mid freq boost and a 3-way pickup selector switch. This is NOT the reissue,this is the real thing, similar to the model used by McKagan with GnR & VR with the exception that this Power version has the A.T.E. circuit described in the original owners manual: "The Power Jazz Bass features a unique Active Tone Enhancement(A.T.E.) circuit which can add low end "pop" or high-end "brilliance" to the sound of the instrument. The A.T.E. circuit has three modes: Passive(in which the Tone Control acts like a standard tone control); Low Frequency Boost, and Mid-Range Boost." The Fender Jazz Bass Special features a Precision Bass pickup in the rhythn(neck) position and a Jazz Bass pickup in the lead(bridge position). It features two independent volume controls, a toggle pickup selector switch, and a master TBX tone control. The toggle switch allows you to instantly change from one preset volume level for the rhythm pickup to another preset volume level for the lead pickup. The middle position blends these two volume settings into a mix, which can be varied by further independent adjustment of the volume and tone controls