1987 Fender Precision Bass Natural, Non-Catalog w/ 70s Features, Japan MIJ Fujigen

Up for sale, a 1987 Fender Precision Bass in exceptional, 100% original condition and in perfect working order. This early “Made in Japan” P Bass is a non-catalog model, crafted at the Fujigen factory during the golden era of Fender Japan production. Loosely evoking a "modern" Precision Bass from the late CBS era of production (circa 1978), this bass features a two-piece ash body, maple neck, and thick slab rosewood fretboard. At 9lbs 9oz, this bass dishes out plenty of natural resonance and sonic authority, and the ash body provides a pronounced midrange response that is faithfully captured by the stock split-coil pickup. This pickup has a quintessential P Bass tonal response, delivering warm, pillowy thump with a sweet treble growl. This Precision Bass benefits from a professional setup here at Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar with 45-100 roundwound strings, easy-playing action, and spot-on intonation. The maple neck has a slender C-shaped carve at the nut, gaining appreciably more heft and shoulder further up the fretboard, measuring .810” deep at the 1st fret and .960” at the 12th. The thick slab rosewood fretboard has a vintage-spec 7 1/4“ radius, and the slender fretwire is practically perfect. This bass plays cleanly up the 34” scale with a straight neck and a responsive, optimally-adjusted truss rod, and the nut measures 1.650” (42mm) in width. The headstock has an uncommon small block logo, and the clover button tuning machines turn smoothly and hold accurate pitch, with large baseplates and clean nickel plating. The neck heel and pocket retain the factory model stamps, and the neck heel is pencil dated to 7-21-87. The “Made in Japan” text and E-prefix serial are present above the four-bolt Fender-embossed neck plate. All of the electronics function as intended; the pickup is wired to the stock harness with untouched solder joints and full-size Japanese pots that date to ‘87. The bridge base and barrel saddles have bright chrome plating, with some flaking of the plating on the pair of flat-topped knurled knobs. Plastics include the four-ply tortoise pickguard, which has the distinctive dark reddish brown material seen on Fender Japan's earliest instruments. The gloss Natural finish highlights the broad, dynamic grain in the ash body and notable flame figuring on the treble side of the bass on the back. This bass is extremely clean, and cosmetic wear is limited to just a pair of small dings on the lower bout perimeter, while the neck profile retains its smooth gloss. A padded gigbag is included.