odd holes in the neck and body - ebmm sterling

[pgolowacz]

I put neck out..and this is what I found :




Never seen smth like this. So many holes. And it looks like it was made in the mm factory. Im just wondering..what for? Maybe there is reason to make those additional holes, dunno.

 

[drewbixcubed]

Those extras are tooling holes for handling the necks/bodies throughout the factory.....

 

[pgolowacz]

hm, ok Its just the first bass whith this kind of holes Ive ever seen.

 

[Rick Auricchio]

It isn't uncommon.

On the back of the Precision Bass (at least my 1965 one) there are two filled holes in the body. One is a few inches from the neck pocket, the other closer to the bridge, both inline with the neck pocket. These are holes they used to hold the body during the routing process.

On the back of the headstock, mine has an extra strap pin. This was a tooling hole to hold the neck at that end.

 

[TNT]

That or termite tubes!



lol