Help with '61 P Bass and 70's Mustang Bass prices

[opdev]

1) 1961 P Bass

Black refin and black PG
1968 ish case
original neck (the fat one) and original tuners
original pots, PG shield, strap buttons, jack and bridge
1974 ish pickup with an older cover
shop will throw in a '63 tortoise guard if I buy it.

2) 1976 ish Mustang Bass

GREAT playing bass, all original in excellent shape with gig bag.

i'll tell you the "asking prices" after I get some reaction. Both seem a little high to me

[musicofanatic5]

Dunno exactly for sure. I play a '61 P (original finish, painted over, original p.u., p.g., and case, etc) and some guy was asking me about it at a gig. He said, "So it doesn't bother you to be taking a $10,000 bass out to gigs?". My reply was there's no way this is a $10,000 bass, and if it is, I do not want to know about it!! Unfortunately the VG price guide does back him up on that: $11-14k!?!? The same book lists a '70-'79 Mustang bass at $1375-1475, so we know they are out of their minds, right?! Sheesh, what does anyone want a Mouseturd bass for, unless they've run out of woodstove fuel?

So, devaluing for refin and lack of real p.u., your '61 P should come in at well under $10,000; I wouldn't pay a nickle over $5000 (hell, at this point, I've barely got the nickle! But I do have a "$10,000 P-bass"!!).

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t195/musicofanatic/PB230006.jpg

[opdev]

Asking price on the P is $2,999.00

[hucklebee]

Seems a bit high to me... I paid about the same for a '63 with a body only refin and all orig parts 5 months ago... but then, i believe the east cost market is a little higher anyway.

my 2 cents

[billywade]

I'm not sure on that asking price on the P. I, myself, would look at other options for that price. The '63 tortoise guard may not even work for you. Talk about shrinkage. Probably looks beautiful but if it's just laying around in a parts drawer good luck getting the screw holes to line up.

[musicofanatic5]

The '63 tortoise guard may not even work for you. Talk about shrinkage. Probably looks beautiful but if it's just laying around in a parts drawer good luck getting the screw holes to line up.

My '61 has a new fender R.I. 'guard on it as the screws were all being pulled toward the center and I could not satisfactorily adjust the p.u. height. The old 'guard sits in the old case.

[michael30]

I paid 600 EUR for my '77 Mustang bass a couple of years ago. The local boutique shop has three of them for sale at the moment, ranging from 1250 to 1450 EUR. 1 EUR = $1.46 at today's exchange rate.

[mc5nrg]

YMMV but I'd take just about any 34" scale bass over a Mustang bass, and I used to own a 70s? Mustang bass.

[michael30]

YMMV but I'd take just about any 34" scale bass over a Mustang bass, and I used to own a 70s? Mustang bass.

I wouldn't and I used to own a '65 Precision, a '73 Rickenbacker, a couple of MusicMan Stingrays and a Sabre, an 8-string Ibanez, a '81 Precision Special and so on....

Different strokes...