Rosetti bass 7

[knirirr]

Spotted this in a local antique shop. Looks a bit dodgy, particularly for the price, but I wondered if anyone knows anything about it.

Presumably "as found" in relation to the electrics means "doesn't work".

 

[Baxlin]

That jogged my memory....

The lead guitarist in my first band in 1962 had a Rosetti Solid 7, same body and pickup/scratch plate.

[knirirr]

11 hours ago, Baxlin said:

That jogged my memory....

The lead guitarist in my first band in 1962 had a Rosetti Solid 7, same body and pickup/scratch plate.

Interesting - was it any good?

[Baxlin]

Did its job.  (for a 3 schoolboy band - Vince Pinkerton and the Lawmen, who didn’t take Nottingham by storm, unfortunately).  IIRC the lead was attached, ie no jack socket.  So he cut it and fitted an in-line co-ax joint, which wasn’t overly successful....

TBH, I think it was the cheapest electric guitar we could find.

Edited February 3, 2020 by Baxlin

[Grahambythesea]

I remember these well, the cheapest, nastiest ghastly basses of the 60’s! I don’t think the necks have a truss today and they were notorious for bending like bananas and not being able to be straightened. The pickups were awful housed in that lump of plastic.

Vintage it may be but should be condemned. What’s it worth? Ask them to pay you a tenner to take it away.

[knirirr]

29 minutes ago, Grahambythesea said:

I remember these well, the cheapest, nastiest ghastly basses of the 60’s! I don’t think the necks have a truss today and they were notorious for bending like bananas and not being able to be straightened. The pickups were awful housed in that lump of plastic.

Vintage it may be but should be condemned. What’s it worth? Ask them to pay you a tenner to take it away.

The neck could well be bent - the action was certainly very high.
I suppose that if cleaned up it might look OK hanging on a wall, but I'd not want to play it.

[Pea Turgh]

You could buy it as a project.  Needs a new nut (& strings!).  Replace the bridge, pickups, scratchplate, neck, tuners, maybe the body, too.

Edited February 3, 2020 by Pea Turgh

[Grahambythesea]

It’s too ugly to be a wall hanger!

[Baxlin]

6 hours ago, Pea Turgh said:

You could buy it as a project.  Needs a new nut (& strings!).  Replace the bridge, pickups, scratchplate, neck, tuners, maybe the body, too.

And call it Trigger's Broom?

 

To complete the set, the acoustic guitar was the Lucky 7

Edited February 3, 2020 by Baxlin

[chris_b]

As I recall, Rosetti were the bass you bought if you couldn't afford anything better.

 

[Pea Turgh]

1 hour ago, Baxlin said:

And call it Trigger's Broom?

Or “a poor excuse to buy more bass things”.

Aint nuthin wrong with creative excuses!

[therealting]

I keep seeing this thread and thinking it’s some extended-range beast...

[Grahambythesea]

On 03/02/2020 at 17:12, Baxlin said:

And call it Trigger's Broom?

 

To complete the set, the acoustic guitar was the Lucky 7

What a misnomer, should have been called the unlucky 7, but who 7 it only had 6 strings? May be the 7 related to the gap between the strings and the fretboard?

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Do my eyes deceive me or is the tailpiece doubling as the bridge saddle? Also it looks like the neck plonked directly on the top of the body without a neck pocket and the fingerboard has an 'infinity' radius (flat!). Interesting design decisions no doubt to build it as cheaply as possible.

[binky_bass]

A new word needs inventing to describe this disasterpiece, and that word shall be 'Horracious'.  

[Baxlin]

The aforementioned Vince Pinkerton and the Lawmen, complete with Solid 7!  Photo taken 25th May 1962.

Baxlin (aged 15) on drums..........

Edited February 10, 2020 by Baxlin