2002 Fender Jazz Bass Fretless '62 Vintage Reissue JB62-77FL w/ USA Pickups, Japan CIJ, Jaco

Up for sale, a 2002 Fender Jazz Bass '62 vintage reissue fretless model JB62-77FL in 100% original condition and in perfect working order. Made exclusively for the Japanese domestic market, this model captures the feel and look of Jaco Pastorious' famed J Bass. Finely crafted by Fender Japan with a host of premium features including USA-made pickups, an alder body, and vintage-spec tuners and bridge saddles, this fretless model features a lined slab rosewood fretboard and can deliver plenty of growl, burp, and snap via the two original single coil pickups. Things can get throaty and punchy with the tone rolled off and the neck pickup favored, or dial up the bridge pickup for a more midrange forward tone that has plenty of presence to stand out in a mix. The bass weighs 8lbs 14oz, professionally setup here at Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar with comfortable action and 45-100 flatwound D'addario Chromes strings.The maple neck has a medium depth U-shaped profile carve at the nut with full shoulders and lightly rolled fretboard edges, gaining more overall heft as you travel up the fretboard, measuring .860" deep at the nut and .960" at the octave. Side dots and a lined fretboard help with pitch accuracy, and the fretboard radius matches vintage spec at 7 1/4". The bass plays cleanly up the 34" scale with a straight neck and responsive, optimally adjusted truss rod. The nut measures 1 1/2" in width. On the headstock, the bass features a set of vintage-style nickel-plated tuning machines with long shafts and clover buttons. The "Crafted in Japan" text and P-prefix serial number are present above the four-bolt neck plate.All of the electronics work as they should with the traditional Jazz Bass control layout governing the factory-installed Fender USA pickups. The chrome-plated hardware has plenty of shine on the bridge base and control plate, with uniform surface patina across the spiral saddles.The three-tone Sunburst finish is accurate to vintage-spec with a burst that is only two-tone beneath the area where you'd typically see a pickguard. There are a few extremely faint outlines of previously removed stickers on the bass-side body horn, and subtle wear through the clear coat on the bass-side extending from the waist to the inside edge of the cutaway. Cosmetic wear on the body is otherwise limited to one small finish chip on the back at the treble-side waist, and a few minor dings and scuffs on the body as a whole, largely along the lower bout edge. The neck profile retains its smooth ambered gloss, and there is one small finish chip behind the nut (beyond where the palm makes contact), a line of checking extending from the low E tuner baseplate that’s just finish-deep, and just one shallow ding of note on the treble side of the carve behind “fret” 1 that doesn’t impact playability.The original Fender-branded gigbag is included.