60s? Hofner with Jazz Bass pickups mod

[Low End Bee]

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Super slanty angle

[spectoremg]

Not quite slanty enough by the look of the alignment.

[Happy Jack]

Well, some of it's from the 60s.

That's a Hofner 185 (the original shortscale rather than the modern HCT version), Continental issue with celluloid 'dot markers'. It would have originally been fitted with a pair of 'Staple' pickups as fitted to the Violin bass.

The equivalent bass in the UK and Commonwealth was the Hofner Artist - you got a serial number for no extra cost but you lost the uber-cool celluloid.

That pickguard is quite a nice bit of brass and will probably polish up with some Duraglit.

It sure as hell ain't original.

As to being "of interest to a Hofner collector", I very much doubt it.