1963 Fender Bass VI 01116

This remarkable custom color 1963 Bass VI weighs in at just lbs. Offset asymmetrical solid alder body and matching Sea Foam Green headstock. Maple neck with a medium profile and a veneer Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 21 original medium frets and clay dot position markers. This guitar has an “A“ neck with a nut width of just over 1 1/2 inches and a short bass scale length of 30 inches. Three Jaguar-style pickups with serrated chrome surrounds and outputs of , , and . Two controls (one volume, one tone) and jack input on lower metal plate adjoining pickguard and four two-way pickup selector switches (one for each pickup, the fourth being a ’frequency’ switch) all on a metal plate inset into the pickguard. Six-saddle bridge with adjustable mute and separate vibrato tailpiece. The neck is stamped “6 MAY 63A“ and the pots are stamped “137 6528“ (CTS, July 1965). Complete with the