1996 Fender Precision Bass '62 Vintage Reissue PB62-70US Olympic White w/ USA Pickup, Japan MIJ

Up for sale, a 1996 Fender Precision Bass '62 vintage reissue model PB62-70 in 100% original condition and in perfect working order. Produced exclusively for the Japanese domestic market, this discontinued model is quite rare outside its country of origin, hailing from the tail end of the "Made in Japan" era. An upscale iteration of the '62 Precision platform, this bass features a USA-made pickup and vintage-spec hardware. The quality is excellent, and the "Made in Japan" instruments exemplify the attention to detail and dedication on the part of Fender Japan to deliver instruments that have both an alluring vintage look and tone to match. Tonewoods include an alder body, maple neck, and thick slab rosewood fretboard, ensuring a balanced, smooth tonal platform for the USA-made split-coil pickup. This bass offers the warmth, articulation and fundamental thump that defines the Precision tone. The bass weighs 9lbs 1oz, professionally setup here at Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar with fresh roundwound 50-100 strings, comfortable action and spot-on intonation. The maple neck has a slender C-shaped profile carve with modest shoulder and lightly rolled fretboard edges, measuring .815" deep at the 1st fret and .935" at the 12th. The thick slab rosewood fretboard is an extremely dark cut of this tonewood, retaining the original slender vintage-style fretwire. The frets are surprisingly clean with their full factory height and well-rounded crowns, showing only a touch of wear beneath the E and A strings on frets 1-5. The scale length is 34”, the fretboard has a vintage spec 7 1/4" radius, and the nut measures 42.5mm in width (just fractionally shy of 1 11/16"). On the headstock, the vintage-style clover button tuning machines turn smoothly and hold pitch well, and the face of the headstock has a classic Pre-CBS style "spaghetti" logo. The "Made in Japan" script text and N-prefix serial are present above the four-bolt neck plate. The traditional electronics work as they should, with the original pickup (USA-made according to the '96 catalog description) wired to full-size Japan-made 250k pots. Hardware includes the bridge with vintage-spec spiral saddles, as well as a pair of flat-topped knurled knobs, all with bright chrome plating. The Olympic White gloss finish is accented by a vibrant glossy red tortoise pickguard, and the finish has gracefully yellowed over the past quarter century. The bass exhibits some finish chips, dings and scuffs, largely on the body perimeter and lower bout on the back. The ambered gloss finish on the neck profile is clean and smooth. A vintage Japanese form-fit faux leather gigbag is included.