Vintage 1962 Fender Precision Bass - Fretless Conversion - Natural

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This is a very interesting piece. This instrument started out its life as a 1962 Fender Precision bass in sunburst finish. Somewhere along the way, this instrument has experienced a comprehensive makeover, making it a truly unique, player grade vintage fretless bass. The fretless bass didn’t exist in 1962. It wasn’t, for the most part until the late 60s when fretless basses began to appear, bridging a gap between the articulation of the fretted instruments and warm expressiveness of an upright bass. In the 1970s the fretless bass craze began to emerge in a large part due to the incredible bass work of Jaco Pastorius. This bass plays well as a fretless. The original Brazilian rosewood “slab” fretboard has been planed down for a smooth playing surface and has a 1st fret depth of 17.3mm and a nice wide nut width of 43.6mm. You can see in later pictures how thin the edges of this slab board are. There is evidence to suggest a refret was carried out at some stage after the board had been thinned out. This is shown by the unusually deep fret tangs in the upper register - going quite far into the maple neck from the mid range up to the 20th fret.This bass was refinished in gloss polyurethane some time ago, which shows deep finish checking. Evidence of the original sunburst finish is shown in the neck pocket. The neck has a glossy headstock face with a reproduction period correct decal over the top (you can just see the footprint of the original decal, offset by about 1.5mm). The back of the neck/headstock has been buffed, as evidenced by cutting compound in the hootenanny button hole (headstock strap button). The thin neck finish has a nice vintage feel without the poly “stickiness” that some refinished basses experience. Original heal date stamp shows thicker finish with original nitro in tact around it.The neck pocket of this bass shows the shadow of the 'mounting stick' used to paint these instruments, which began to appear in late 1962, we also have some nail holes in