Note the pickguard screwed down onto the body top, and the bright white Japanese-made pearloid used for the pickguard and the control console fascia - typical for one of the last "standard" 500/1 basses made.
A one-piece neck with the "small" rounded heel.
German-made "narrow" control console, introduced in c1993 just prior to the introduction of the Vintage Re-issue basses.
