Hohner B Bass with an....interesting bridge

[BassApprentice]

Can anyone explain the bridge?

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hohner-B-bass-guitar/153230813463

 

Looks good otherwise just not sure why it has a Steinberger bridge

 

 

 

[AndyTravis]

A lot of them had this (the two I’ve had both did) it’s a drop d/b bridge. Handy. But surprisingly fragile (the lever snapped on one of mine)

[Geek99]

mine too,. before some lowlife scumbag stole it.

[floFC]

I thought they all that the Steinberger bridge. Mine has. Love how chunky it is, and the tuning is super stable.

i don’t use the detuner much. I am surprised to hear it can snap, it looks very solid.

[floFC]

If you also meant explain what it does (rather than why it’s there):

- the lever is a detuner, you can tune to whatever note lower than E and use it at the flick of the lever.

- the round knobs are fine tuners

- there are bolts to lock the saddles in place

- you can also swap the saddles around to change the string spacing

[BreadBin]

1 hour ago, AndyTravis said:

A lot of them had this (the two I’ve had both did) it’s a drop d/b bridge. Handy. But surprisingly fragile (the lever snapped on one of mine)

But not the other eh?

[TheGreek]

Notice how the saddles on the bridge are set up??

[floFC]

16 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Notice how the saddles on the bridge are set up??

Don’t look at the headstock

[AndyTravis]

41 minutes ago, BreadBin said:

But not the other eh?

No. Great bass that.

[BreadBin]

46 minutes ago, floFC said:

Don’t look at the headstock

D'oh!

[BreadBin]

44 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

No. Great bass that.

It certainly is 

[Bridgehouse]

1 hour ago, floFC said:

Don’t look at the headstock

I have a trowel that looks like that!

[AndyTravis]

The headstock look alright with the Gotoh Gb-707’s on it.

just of it’s time.

im actually poised to bid on a headless version 

[BreadBin]

It's the string winding on the D and G strings that let that one down

[floFC]

52 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

I have a trowel that looks like that!

 

7 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

The headstock look alright with the Gotoh Gb-707’s on it.

just of it’s time.

im actually poised to bid on a headless version 

Personally I really like the headstock.

I was referring to the stringing in my earlier comment.

[BreadBin]

As it should look...

[AndyTravis]

Aww bless it. Much missed 🙄

[Woodinblack]

The microtuners were quite a thing for a while, the fenders had them too (not steinberg ones though).

[BreadBin]

3 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

Aww bless it. Much missed 🙄

It's well looked after 

[alyctes]

22 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

The microtuners were quite a thing for a while, the fenders had them too (not steinberg ones though).

I would definitely prefer them as standard, personally.