Everybody point and laugh

[Jono Bolton]

What a f***ing hideous bass: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300097543565&ssPageName=MERC_VI_RCRX_Pr4_PcY_BIN_Stores_IT&refitem=300139853330&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=active_view_item&usedrule1=CrossSell_LogicX&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget"]Firewood[/url]

[jwbassman]

*points finger* LOL

this is not a nice looking bass...

[E_MaN]

yum lol

[Jono Bolton]

I just saw the neck join and the cutaways!

[Dread Bass]

That just looks bad there is no 2 ways about it its horrible im surprised that neck is still attached.

[peted]

It's screaming to be put out of its misery. Burn it!

[SJA]

careful, BC Rich might get ideas.....

[wotnwhy]

wow. there's not a lot of basses i'd consider to be 'ugly'. but that makes me feel sick!

and to top it off, look at the price!!!

[Jono Bolton]

[quote name='wotnwhy' post='119662' date='Jan 13 2008, 06:21 PM']wow. there's not a lot of basses i'd consider to be 'ugly'. but that makes me feel sick!

and to top it off, look at the price!!![/quote]

I hadn't even noticed the price! I was too preoccupied with the angle of the Low E past the nut and the general placement of the tail piece/bridge.

[Jono Bolton]

A translation of the the item description:
"Very interesting prototype E-bass out of German fabrication out of the 60er-Jahren, probably of Framus or Klira. The bass does not sound very good and fat more Hingucker- and show effect goes. A very special instrument for very special people."

They're not wrong!

[Hit&Run]

That sho' does look like a turd.

[Davetbass]

[quote name='jono b' post='119672' date='Jan 13 2008, 06:30 PM']A very special instrument for very special people."

They're not wrong![/quote]

I think you would have to be "special" to want to pay 500 quid for an arsehole of a bass like this!!

[Deep Thought]

Is that a bass or a can opener?

[The Burpster]

I believe this is the first time I've said this....... but....

The case is prettier than the bass!

Thats sure is one ugly fother mucker!

[Guest TheBigBeefChief]

Strange really. Pretty much any bass posted here, no matter how bad, will have at least one fan on the forum.

Could this be the first bass (maybe topic??) that everyone is in agreement with?

Even I can't pretend to like it, even to be controversial.

[lee4]

Proof that Satan's hand has touched the Earth!Burn it at the stake post haste!

[Sean]

And that fretboard is filthy!

[Happy Jack]

The tailpiece could be genuine - it's pretty generic - and the pickup could quite easily be from a real Framus.

The neck looks like a butchered version of the necks used by Framus, Klira and Hofner during the 60's.

The rest of it is home-made crap of the worst sort.

Herr Framus (or Herr SturmbannOberGruppenFuehrer Framus for that matter) is probably spinning in his proverbial at being associated with that thing.

[spinynorman]

It's in the Rare and Vintage section of their shop.

Actually they've put it up before, some time ago. Didn't sell then, for some reason I can't explain.

Edited January 14, 2008 by spinynorman

[Buzz]

*shudders*

[EBS_freak]

I really like it.


I'm also a compulsive liar.

[s_u_y_*]

U-G-L-Y, that bass certainly does not have an alibi.

[Tait]

that is sooo ugly! how can anyone in their right mind like that? no one is EVER going to buy it.

on a more serious note- why does it need a control plate and a rear cavity? is it just this bass or are there others like that?

[Hamster]

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Hamster

[warwickhunt]

If that is a Framus prototype then technically it is a Warwick prototype... even I 'kin hate that Warwick!

Oh and if it is a Warwick then in the present bass selling economic climate it's worth precisely eleventy twelve pence.