VINTAGE 1962 HOFNER ARTIST

[EssentialTension]

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-1962-HOFNER-ARTIST-RED-BASS-/390233956309?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item5adbc19fd5"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-1962-HOFNER-...=item5adbc19fd5[/url]

£695

I paid £30 in 1974!!!

[tino]

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='948638' date='Sep 7 2010, 07:03 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-1962-HOFNER-ARTIST-RED-BASS-/390233956309?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item5adbc19fd5"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-1962-HOFNER-...=item5adbc19fd5[/url]

£695

I paid £30 in 1974!!![/quote]
I paid £20 in 2009 Cuffley Boot sale and sold it for £320 on Gumtree that same week .....it was pants

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='tino' post='948645' date='Sep 7 2010, 07:07 PM']I paid £20 in 2009 Cuffley Boot sale and sold it for £320 on Gumtree that same week .....it was pants [/quote]
Mine wasn't pants, I wish I still had it.

[tino]

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='948646' date='Sep 7 2010, 07:09 PM']Mine wasn't pants, I wish I still had it.[/quote]
Well yer best get your bid in ....................................you can get a sensible bass for that dough

[Happy Jack]

NKR Guitars have been trying to sell that for months - I corrected their original (very inaccurate) advert and dated the bass for them.

That's a pretty good bass, nearly all-original, rare diamond pickups, very good nick for the age, with the desirable red vinyl finish that most Hofner collectors want to have an example of.

It's not worth £695, though.

He should get £400, might even get close to £500, but that'll be from a wealthy customer in the shop - not eBay.

[tino]

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='948663' date='Sep 7 2010, 07:22 PM']NKR Guitars have been trying to sell that for months - I corrected their original (very inaccurate) advert and dated the bass for them.

That's a pretty good bass, nearly all-original, rare diamond pickups, very good nick for the age, with the desirable red vinyl finish that most Hofner collectors want to have an example of.

It's not worth £695, though.

He should get £400, might even get close to £500, but that'll be from a wealthy customer in the shop - not eBay.[/quote]

I agree......................................
However had it a toasted neck it would be worth thousands HERE I GO AGAIN

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='tino' post='948651' date='Sep 7 2010, 07:16 PM']Well yer best get your bid in ....................................you can get a sensible bass for that dough [/quote]
Yes, well the point of the thread - I didn't realise I'd need to make it explicit - was that this is a very high price.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='948663' date='Sep 7 2010, 07:22 PM']NKR Guitars have been trying to sell that for months - I corrected their original (very inaccurate) advert and dated the bass for them.

That's a pretty good bass, nearly all-original, rare diamond pickups, very good nick for the age, with the desirable red vinyl finish that most Hofner collectors want to have an example of.

It's not worth £695, though.

He should get £400, might even get close to £500, but that'll be from a wealthy customer in the shop - not eBay.[/quote]
Ah, I hadn't spotted that it was the vinyl finish; but, like you say, still not worth £695.

[tino]

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='948695' date='Sep 7 2010, 07:42 PM']Yes, well the point of the thread - I didn't realise I'd need to make it explicit - was that this is a very high price.[/quote]
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH....handbags at 30 paces...


Sorry ..Im off

[LukeFRC]

[url="http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/bass_guitars_detail.asp?stock=com-G15ES164"]http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/bass_guitars...ck=com-G15ES164[/url]

cheaper one in glasgow

[Rich]

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='948646' date='Sep 7 2010, 07:09 PM']Mine wasn't pants, I wish I still had it.[/quote]
Still got mine, it's still pants paid £25 for it. It's worth at least that.

[Happy Jack]

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='948837' date='Sep 7 2010, 09:23 PM'][url="http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/bass_guitars_detail.asp?stock=com-G15ES164"]http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/bass_guitars...ck=com-G15ES164[/url]

cheaper one in glasgow[/quote]

That's in unbelievably good condition for a 1963 Hofner Artist. I'm guessing that it's a re-fin and quite possibly a full restoration job.

I have to say, it's also quite beautiful.

[Stacker]

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='948638' date='Sep 7 2010, 07:03 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-1962-HOFNER-ARTIST-RED-BASS-/390233956309?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item5adbc19fd5"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-1962-HOFNER-...=item5adbc19fd5[/url]

£695

I paid £30 in 1974!!![/quote]

What an almost coincidence! I paid £32 for mine - my first ever bass! - in '73, though my one had the two selector switches under the front pup. It came with a snakeskin Selmer case and that amazing smell that comes out of those cases has stayed with me ever since. Like a mug, I pawned it a few years later.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Stacker' post='952457' date='Sep 11 2010, 08:38 AM']What an almost coincidence! I paid £32 for mine - my first ever bass! - in '73, though my one had the two selector switches under the front pup. It came with a snakeskin Selmer case and that amazing smell that comes out of those cases has stayed with me ever since. Like a mug, I pawned it a few years later.[/quote]
My first bass too.