my friend is a true vintage collector. I wish he would come on the forum and tell you the stories I've heard. there's a store he would go to on the west coat and find piles of old mosrite parts, and he's bought old mosrites still in their shipping cartons. he's the only guy that i've known own a marshall major, plus it had a custom ordered yellow tolex, his main guitar is a 59 les paul junior, and for you nirvana fans, if anyone remembers the bass chris novoselic used in the teen spirit video? kurt bought bought that bass from my buddy Richard. One of these days I got to get his giant picture book of vintage guitars he's own, you guys would freak.
he's owns i think 4 more of these basses, some in rough shape, some in 100% original condition. believe it or not he got this bass at a guitar show for only 2 grand! right now the plan is just clean it up a little. some of the frets are popping out of the neck so I'm going to press them back in and do a basic set up on the bass. he's asked me to polish the frets up, and also the skunk stripe is coming out a little. i may try to tap it back in, but not sure yet how to approach it. it could be just be wood shrinkage. my friend also said that these necks tend to have issue being the truss rods aren't the greatest.
right now no refinishing is planned.
