I started pulling it apart and quickly realized this was going to be a salvage case that wasn't going to be worth it financially, but would probably end up with a nice bass. The action was probably close to 1 cm high and everything was corroded and had 45 years of dirt and gunk all over it. This bass looked pretty bad and had some obvious issues without even playing it, which is why it was put aside originally. As I've discussed in previous blogs it wasn't until about '76/77 that Greco, primarily made by the Fujigen and Matsumoku factories really started to make "exact" copies of these Fenders. These early seventies Fujigen made "Fender" copies were a little more crude than the later seventies models with slight differences in construction and design. I guarantee that most (if not all) of the cheap import guitars from China, Indonesia, India, etc being made today will not be playable in 50 years.Īnyway, every so often I go through the piles of guitars and basses and decide to get one going again. I've said it many times before but vintage Japanese instruments that are still mostly original and playable after 40-50, even 60 years is an indication of a quality instrument. I have in the past fixed many vintage Japanese guitars and basses that were either well played or badly treated, or both and then "discarded" and sold off cheap as scrap, only to make them live and inspire for another generation. I literally have hundreds of them around my workshop so it takes a while to get to some but I would still rather make something playable again, even if it's not financially viable, than scrap it, especially when they're quality instruments like this. It was a bit of a basket case when I got it and it was one of those "I'll put it aside for later" repairs.
A lot of places and/or repairers probably wouldn't have fixed this one up.
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