70's Fender bass trivia

[FiestaRed62]

I'm trying to make sense of all these 70s bass necks and parts I have -- some
are complete basses; some parts looking for a proper year bass to call home.

Questions:
What year(s) in the '70s did Fender use a non-date stamped number on neck ends?
for example: my '72 says 5NOV72, but another P-bass ('74-5?) has
stamped: 103 1234 in black ink on the neck end.
Another P-bass neck end is stamped 0101 1647

Do these inpection/quality control names found on 70's Fender basses (mostly
stamps) go with particular years?:
FRANK L (possibly FRANK T)
J TORRES
C BEGALADO
ARMENTA
H FERRY or HENRY FERRY
BENNY MUNOK
M Kimball (hand-written, cursive)

If anyone is interested in this stuff, or knows a site that has more info,
please let me know here or by e-mail.
Thanks!

[Dude]

Try this site:
http://home.att.net/~ggjag5/neckcode.htm

Steve "Dude" Barr
Bass Frontiers Magazine
http://www.bassfrontiers.com/

[FiestaRed62]

>Try this site:
>http://home.att.net/~ggjag5/neckcode.htm
>
>Steve "Dude" Barr

Thanks, Dude.
Very interesting site.
His "theories" of these neck codes seem consistent with some of my known-date
mid 70s basses.

[FiestaRed62]

Another question:
Anyone know the dates Fender did and did not do the routing between the pickups
and control cavity?
Some have the tunnel for pickup wires, some have wood routed out.

Is it possible for a 74 Pbass to have this routed out, but a 75 Pbass with the
tunnel? (backwards from what I would expect)
This is what I seem to have.