The iconic Fender Precision Bass has been around for a very long time, it has been used by the rich and famous and still is, from up incoming musicians to long term stalwarts this bass has managed to last through the decades and still is the bench mark of bass guitars today.
The Fender Precision Bass is an electric bass guitar, so it has a pick up and volume and tone knobs.
Originally designed in 1950 by Leo Fender, Mr Fender then bought this bass to the market the following year in 1951 and the rest as they say is history.
The Fender Precision was the first bass guitar to get widespread attention and use, although Fender wasn’t the first brand to produce bass guitars they certainly we the first to introduce bass guitars to the world.
The body of the Precision Bass is usually made with an alder or ash solid body woods (These come in many colours and sunburst varieties), the neck is maple and the fretboard (Which has 20 frets) can be maple, rosewood, ebony or pao ferro types of wood, with the standard single split coil humbucker pick up.
There are many varieties and finishes to the Fender Precision Bass, these are Standard Series, American deluxe series, American standard series, American vintage series, Highway one series, American special series, Classic series, Deluxe series, Road worn series and the 60th anniversary, this gives you a lot of variation on an old classic and it’s not only the colours that are the variation in these models thee is subtle changes throughout.