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Mystery bass: made in Japan?


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[color=#000000]So I work at this secondary school and we have a couple of basses. Some are pretty decent (SX Jazz is amazing for the price) and some are terrible. And then there's this one: I guess it's from the 70's, it's shortscale and it has a laminated body. Really, it consists of layers of wood. But what is it? Hondo? It sounds pretty good. Not amazing, but pretty ok.[/color][/size][/font][/color][color=#EEEEEE][font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif][size=4]
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Ehehehe I know, I was surprised to ;)
I just found a couple of stickers.
-One says "made in Korea" (so there's a mystery solved)
-On the neckplate is "H-80"
-And there is a "inspected by" sticker.
I'm thinking it might be an old Harmony, I can find guitars with the same neck joint and strap button on the heel of the neck, but I can't find an H-80 bass. That was a Strat type guitar.

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It looks like Hondo had an H-80 bass, and that would fit with the Made in Korea sticker. I can't find a picture of one though. They did use a very similar headstock shape to yours on some things.
[url="http://samick.wikia.com/wiki/Hondo"]http://samick.wikia.com/wiki/Hondo[/url]

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It didn't fit through the hole in the bridge... I tried to ram it through but that didn't work.
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I thought it might've been a new prototype drop-D technique.

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[quote name='Phil Adams' timestamp='1495114599' post='3301387']
Idly looking at the pic, could it be a left hand bridge? Might possibly be the reason.
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Don't think I've ever seen one with the holes different sizes.

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