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Dennis_UK · November 5th, 2003, 12:44 PM

...what style of Precision headstock/decal is your favourite?
My favourite's this style, despite the fact I have a pre-'57 style bass. I don't particularly like the spaghetti logo, despite it being the only one I have on my instruments at the moment. This is the same as the first Fender I ever had (1975). I rather liked the big writing - just so everyone would know what I was playing!

Big Tony · November 5th, 2003, 01:53 PM

I don't own a Precision (wish I did!), but I really like the bold statement of that headstock decal. It's ballsy!

Dennis_UK · November 5th, 2003, 01:59 PM

It's 'in your face', but not too much.
Now this one is alittle more restrained...

jam · November 5th, 2003, 04:58 PM

...though the only one I have a physical aversion to is the post-'77 "small font + s/n" style...because so many of those that I've seen are attached to 15 pound dogs.

JAM

Bob Rogers · November 6th, 2003, 07:36 AM

I guess I like the spaghetti logo the best, but they all suck when Fender tries to shoehorn them onto a lefty headstock. Nothing frosts my butt more than the fact that Fender went to the expense to design that stupid mirror image logo for the idiotic Hendrix strat but won't rearrange any logo for a lefty headstock.

Dennis_UK · November 6th, 2003, 04:34 PM

I always thought the lefty headstocks, any model, were somewhat untidy. But then they essentially designed the logo for a righty headstock - it probably never occurred to them at the time that anyone would want it different.

A bit like the original Range Rover. When they'd built the first one, someone on seeing it said, "Where's the ashtray?" There wasn't one. No-one on the design team smoked...

broadcaster · November 28th, 2003, 12:37 PM

The "seventies" style P bass logo is my fav. Close second is the spagehtti(spelling) logo.

November 5th, 2003, 12:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dennis_UK Tele-Holic Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Calstock, Cornwall, UK Age: 56 Posts: 715	Totally trivial, but... ...what style of Precision headstock/decal is your favourite? My favourite's this style, despite the fact I have a pre-'57 style bass. I don't particularly like the spaghetti logo, despite it being the only one I have on my instruments at the moment. This is the same as the first Fender I ever had (1975). I rather liked the big writing - just so everyone would know what I was playing! __________________ Fender MIM Precision, all black, 2004. Fender MIJ Precision, '51 RI, Butterscotch, 1996. Squier VM Precision TB, 3TS, 2007 Markbass CMD121H 1x12 combo plus 1x12 ext cab My band: The Rock'nRoll Outlaws

November 5th, 2003, 01:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
Big Tony Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Sweden, by golly! Age: 54 Posts: 2,752 29 Photos	Say it loud! I don't own a Precision (wish I did!), but I really like the bold statement of that headstock decal. It's ballsy!

November 5th, 2003, 01:59 PM	#3 (permalink)
Dennis_UK Tele-Holic Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Calstock, Cornwall, UK Age: 56 Posts: 715	That's why I like it... It's 'in your face', but not too much. Now this one is alittle more restrained... __________________ Fender MIM Precision, all black, 2004. Fender MIJ Precision, '51 RI, Butterscotch, 1996. Squier VM Precision TB, 3TS, 2007 Markbass CMD121H 1x12 combo plus 1x12 ext cab My band: The Rock'nRoll Outlaws

November 5th, 2003, 04:58 PM	#4 (permalink)
jam Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Philly PA area Posts: 289	Probably the '62 J logo ...though the only one I have a physical aversion to is the post-'77 "small font + s/n" style...because so many of those that I've seen are attached to 15 pound dogs. JAM __________________ The price of wisdom is paid in agility.

November 6th, 2003, 04:34 PM	#6 (permalink)
Dennis_UK Tele-Holic Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Calstock, Cornwall, UK Age: 56 Posts: 715	Hmm, they don't do lefties well, do they? I always thought the lefty headstocks, any model, were somewhat untidy. But then they essentially designed the logo for a righty headstock - it probably never occurred to them at the time that anyone would want it different. A bit like the original Range Rover. When they'd built the first one, someone on seeing it said, "Where's the ashtray?" There wasn't one. No-one on the design team smoked... __________________ Fender MIM Precision, all black, 2004. Fender MIJ Precision, '51 RI, Butterscotch, 1996. Squier VM Precision TB, 3TS, 2007 Markbass CMD121H 1x12 combo plus 1x12 ext cab My band: The Rock'nRoll Outlaws

November 6th, 2003, 07:36 AM	#5 (permalink)
Bob Rogers Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Blacksburg, VA Posts: 1,710	I guess I like the spaghetti logo the best, but they all suck when Fender tries to shoehorn them onto a lefty headstock. Nothing frosts my butt more than the fact that Fender went to the expense to design that stupid mirror image logo for the idiotic Hendrix strat but won't rearrange any logo for a lefty headstock.

November 28th, 2003, 12:37 PM	#7 (permalink)
broadcaster Tele-Holic Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: westconsin Age: 51 Posts: 738	The "seventies" style P bass logo is my fav. Close second is the spagehtti(spelling) logo.

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