Alvarez World Bass?

[cytania]

Oddest thing I've seen for a while; Nanyo type headstock, P/J pickups, Rickenbackeresque bridge and why paint 'World' on it?

http://rguitars.co.uk/collections/used-guitars/products/alvarez-world-bass

Anyone know anything about this?

ALLAN

[alyctes]

The bridge is definitely too gaudy for my taste.

[Bassassin]

Definitely wasn't born with that functionless piece of junk on it.

Looks like a generic Tune/Nanyo/SR wannabe that someone thought would be improved by bodging a Rick copy (it's not a real one) tailpiece on. It's misaligned, the string spacing is stupidly narrow & I'd be prepared to bet it's impossible to set up or intonate correctly.

So it's just like a Rickenbacker now!

Jon.

[AndyTravis]

Game over, that's my day ruined.

[PlungerModerno]

I will note that ugly as it is - it may work well.

Well assuming the pickups have a pretty even output with the narrow string spacing, the bridge intonates well (at least up to the 12th fret), and the alignment probably being off doesn't cause issues for the player in question.

It's not pretty - given the "world" printed on the pickups I'm guessing that's the model name. As has been alluded to already - if that bridge is original, I'll be amazed.