And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I still have my 1965 Precision, which is, of course, post the CBS buyout. One day I was sitting in the terminal at McCarron waiting for my flight to Ontario CA. I started talking to the guy seated near to me because he had all kinda Fender stickers on his carryon. Turns out he worked at the Fender Custom Shop in Corona. I mentioned my bass and the sad fact that it was a 1965, and he said that the way the factory ran at the time, the parts fabrication process ran months ahead of the final assembly process. So in July of 1965 when my bass was being assembled, they were pulling parts, including bodies and necks, from bins where they had been sitting for up to a year. At the point of assembly, they would stamp the assembly date on the base of the neck, stamp the SN on the neck plate (if not already done), and then enter all that data in a log. The neck plate is the only thing serialized, nothing else, so that became something of a QA/QC nightmare compared to the way it was run 30-50 years later. And yet, we cherish these old instruments despite their quirks.
I still have my 1965 Precision, which is, of course, post the CBS buyout. One day I was sitting in the terminal at McCarron waiting for my flight to Ontario CA. I started talking to the guy seated near to me because he had all kinda Fender stickers on his carryon. Turns out he worked at the Fender Custom Shop in Corona. I mentioned my bass and the sad fact that it was a 1965, and he said that the way the factory ran at the time, the parts fabrication process ran months ahead of the final assembly process. So in July of 1965 when my bass was being assembled, they were pulling parts, including bodies and necks, from bins where they had been sitting for up to a year. At the point of assembly, they would stamp the assembly date on the base of the neck, stamp the SN on the neck plate (if not already done), and then enter all that data in a log. The neck plate is the only thing serialized, nothing else, so that became something of a QA/QC nightmare compared to the way it was run 30-50 years later. And yet, we cherish these old instruments despite their quirks.
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