Fender Precision Bass Olympic White (pre-owned)

1964 Fender Precision Bass — Olympic White

This is the real thing. A 1964 Precision Bass from the final full year before CBS took over Fender — built in Fullerton while Leo was still walking the factory floor, when the P bass had been refined into the instrument every bass after it would be measured against. The bass was refinish in 68´ the rest is original

Two owners across six decades, all original, and in genuinely good playing condition. Custom-color pre-CBS Precisions are the basses serious players and collectors chase, and this one isn’t a safe-queen — it’s a player. Plug it in and you’ll understand why people spend their whole lives looking for one of these.

Body, Neck & Woods

The body is alder, the wood that gives the Precision its signature voice — warm, focused, with a thick midrange punch that cuts through without ever sounding harsh. Over it sits Olympic White, a DuPont custom color that started life bright and has yellowed and checked naturally over the years into a creamy patina no relic shop can fake. That’s the look collectors pay for: honest age, not a finish chasing it.

The neck is one piece of maple in the wide, comfortable C profile of the era, topped with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard and clay dot inlays. Brazilian rosewood — long since restricted under CITES and unavailable on new instruments — adds a touch of warmth and a sweet, singing top end you notice the moment you dig in. Twenty original frets, a 7.25″ radius, and a 1.75″ nut: the dimensions that became the template for every Precision since.

It’s a 34″ scale — the measurement Fender settled on that the entire industry then followed. Balanced, familiar, and the reason a P bass feels like home the second you pick it up.

Condition

Fully original and in really good playing condition. In sixty years it’s had just two owners, if what you’re looking at is exactly what left Fullerton in 1964, aged the way these basses are supposed to age.

Expect the marks of a well-loved vintage instrument: natural yellowing of the white nitro, fine lacquer checking, and honest play wear that tells you this bass has done its job. The frets have plenty of life left, the neck is straight and comfortable, and it’s set up and ready to play out of the case. It comes in its original blond Tolex hard shell case.

Electronics, Sound & Feel

At the heart of it is the split-coil Precision pickup — the 1957 design that, by 1964, had matured into the most recorded bass sound in music. It’s hum-cancelling, fat, and punchy, with that unmistakable P-bass thump that sits in a mix like nothing else. Wiring is dead simple: Volume and Tone, passive, nothing between your hands and the speaker.

And that’s the point. A passive ’60s P bass is endlessly dynamic — roll the tone back for that classic flatwound thud, open it up for growl and grind, and let your fingers do the rest. There’s no preamp coloring things, no menu to dial through. Just a direct, responsive instrument that reacts to exactly how you play it.

For a P-bass player, this is about as good as it gets: pre-CBS, custom color, all original, and a genuine player rather than a museum piece. If you’ve been waiting for the one — the bass you stop searching after — this is it.