'Givson' bass body.

[NancyJohnson]

It took me a while to join the dots, but I think this is a Warmoth body design.  They were certainly selling this shape a few years back and I'd never seen it anywhere other than their website.

 

If anyone does pull the trigger, be warned, from memory it had a very quirky scale length, somewhere between short and 34" longscale, so standard necks would require getting the chisels out.

 

Maybe one for that guy.  🤣

 

 

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Relic-Givson-India-Bass-Guitar-Body-Mahogany-Challenger-Unusual-Design-/255175369381?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

[TheGreek]

I had it in my watch folder - seller reduced by 10%.

 

Interesting looking I thought.

[alyctes]

That's got to be uncomfortable to play sitting down.

[PaulThePlug]

I like that....Jazz-Strat-Attack!

Ibby Micro Neck @ 28.6"?

BOOM!

Edited October 20, 2021 by PaulThePlug

[verb]

That would look great airbrushed to look like a Klingon / Orc weapon. 

I really like it.

[kodiakblair]

Not sure what the shipping would cost but you can buy them split new in India for £46 👍

 

https://www.devmusical.com/Product/Givson-Challenger-4-String-Electric-Bass-Guitar/P366/130

[TheGreek]

Looks wrong with a headstock. Headless only I say.

[kodiakblair]

37 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Looks wrong with a headstock. Headless only I say.

Pity you didn't buy it start of the month.

 

Complete bass sold for £38 , would have made for a very affordable conversion 👍

[Beer of the Bass]

Givson are a real company, they're in India and I think most of their stuff is sold domestically. A local guitar shop had a couple of their archtop guitars a few years ago; huge bodied and quite crudely made, but also pretty loud and IMO potentially fun instruments.

[pst62]

On 20/10/2021 at 18:59, verb said:

That would look great airbrushed to look like a Klingon / Orc weapon. 

 

It would look even greater burning in a furnace!

[rushbo]

On 20/10/2021 at 19:04, kodiakblair said:

Not sure what the shipping would cost but you can buy them split new in India for £46 👍

 

https://www.devmusical.com/Product/Givson-Challenger-4-String-Electric-Bass-Guitar/P366/130

The description on the website is priceless. 

 

(When I read it, the voice in my head was that of Apu from The Simpsons and now I feel like I've committed a hate crime...)

[Richard R]

From the website "With this beautiful bass guitar, you can cheer yourself on delivering a wide range of tones with perfect vibrations that flows out from its Toon wood body"

 

[tauzero]

With all the references to "Toon wood", is the advert author an expat Geordie?

[godathunder]

many moons ago when I was bumming round india with a backpack I was an extra in a bollywood film, playing a guitarist in a nightclub scene

 

the guitar I was given to strike my best pete townshend poses with was a Givson - it was like trying to play a cheesegrater.

 

if memory serves, the other guitar on set was a Fenda, although I didnt get to manhandle that one