One-of-a-kind 1964 Fender Jazz Bass in Tangerine Sparkle for sale in New York

A Fender Jazz Bass built in February 1964, finished in a Tangerine Sparkle metal flake sunburst with a matching headstock, is featured by Guitar World. The bass is at Well Strung Guitars, David Davidson's shop in Farmingdale, New York, and the piece first appeared in Guitarist.

It has a maple neck, an alder body, a green nitrate pickguard and a figured rosewood fretboard, all the pre-CBS features collectors look for, plus a very thin ‘A’ neck. Davidson had it refretted because the frets were not original, and the neck pickup cover is a vintage-style replacement. The finish is heavily worn on the back, with bare wood showing. He says he bought it from a friend on the West Coast about 15 years ago, in its original white case, and that it is the bass his shop hands to good players testing amplifiers.

Davidson believes the finish was sprayed by Dennis Swiden, a furniture painter who collected bodies from the Fender factory and sprayed sparkle finishes in his parents' shop. Fender's Binks Model 7 suction-cup gun could not lift large metal flakes, and the company only got gravity-fed guns in 1966. Matching headstocks did not appear on Fenders until early 1962; Davidson once owned a 1959 Aqua Mist Jazzmaster with a headstock painted the same way. Swiden's style became popular with surf-rockers and Bakersfield country players.

The bass is for sale with no published price; Davidson concedes he is probably asking too much and is in no hurry.

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