Hayman 40/40

[Jerry_B]

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Not heard of this make before but I like the looks of it. Anyone heard of them?

[robocorpse]

British made, mid 1970s. They are from the same bunch of people who made Shergolds.
Patchy quality, but if you get a good one, you'll love it to bits. Rare but not massively collectable yet...

[Jerry_B]

Aha - cheers for that. Shame it's local pick-up only, as I'm quite tempted!

[Low End Bee]

My cousin Gary had one in 78. That's not helpful is it.

Like a Marathon with different pickups. Steve Diggle used one when he was on bass duty in the first Buzzcocks line up.
Body is 'obeche' wood I seem to remember. Can't see if it's got the clear plastic 'H' logo disc in the headstock that they always seem to be missing. Quite a skinny neck from memory. I'd have one if I was going down the collector path.

[Paul S]

I had one for about a year a while back. Not a skinny neck at all on mine, it was a real baseball bat neck - wide AND deep - like the larger Fender precisions. Weighed a tonne and a half, too. Beautifully built thing from quality components, spoilt me for cheaper basses. IMO better quality than a Shergold. Limited sounds at your disposal, though. Biggest problem I encountered with mine was the bridge, which is perspex and, in my case, cracked. Fortunate enough to find a NOS one to replace it with but that was a fluke. All things considered it wasn't for me but they are good quality British built piece of kit and becoming collectable.

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[tauzero]

My first bass, a Hayman 40/40, put together from parts when Hayman went bust and the Fender Soundhouse had a fire at similar times. The Soundhouse flogged off the Hayman bits they had knocking around for not too much money and I built my own. I was rather fond of it.

[Jerry_B]

Bloody hell - it went for 600 quid....!

[Low End Bee]

£600! Bloody Hell indeed.

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Spotted a pic of Garth from the Buzzcocks plunking away at one. There is a legend that he spent all his advance on a Gibson Thunderbird which he then drunkenly dropped down stairs just after being sacked from the band.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Paul S' post='1051474' date='Dec 8 2010, 11:08 AM']I had one for about a year a while back. Not a skinny neck at all on mine, it was a real baseball bat neck - wide AND deep - like the larger Fender precisions. Weighed a tonne and a half, too. Beautifully built thing from quality components, spoilt me for cheaper basses. IMO better quality than a Shergold. Limited sounds at your disposal, though. Biggest problem I encountered with mine was the bridge, which is perspex and, in my case, cracked. Fortunate enough to find a NOS one to replace it with but that was a fluke. All things considered it wasn't for me but they are good quality British built piece of kit and becoming collectable.

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I had one of these from new in 1974 - cost me £120 if I remember correctly.

I'd agree that the neck wasn't skinny and the bass was heavy but after I traded it for a 1976 Fender Precision that was equally heavy I wasn't sure I'd done the best deal.