Tokai Talbo bass..

[Steve70]

 

.well, that's what it says on the headstock. No Aluminium content tho'..

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175199654799?hash=item28cab6938f:g:iN0AAOSwByZiLrYq

 

[Bassassin]

Talbo = Tokai Aluminium Body.

 

This seller = Talking boll0cks.

[lemmywinks]

The neck is a "7 fly sandwich" apparently. Doesn't sound very appetising.

Edited April 25, 2022 by lemmywinks

[lemmywinks]

Another one here, claiming it's a MIJ prototype:

https://reverb.com/ca/item/47785065-through-neck-bass-natural-original-mij-japan

[NikNik]

These must have been domestic market only; I've never seen them, ever, until now.

 

Big questions: are those humbuckers really humbuckers? 😉

[Max Normal]

39 minutes ago, NikNik said:

These must have been domestic market only; I've never seen them, ever, until now.

 

Big questions: are those humbuckers really humbuckers? 😉

I reckon these basses are Ali Express jobs with a knockoff logo. That bridge is certainly a design I have seen on Chinese sites.

[Maude]

AliExpress judging by the poor translations/mistakes on that specs list. 

A 'sandwitch'? Occultist at the beach? 

[Max Normal]

7 fly sandwitch? Sounds crunchy if a bit stingy on the flies. I saw High Fernly-Whittingstall make a woodlouse omlette on TV once, so I guess he'd go for it.

[prowla]

Sort of Warwick-ish...

[BigRedX]

For anyone who hasn't seen one before, this is what a real Tokai Talbo Bass looks like:

 

 

Nothing like the one on eBay... (Looks like a Warwick knock-off) 

 

However there was a wooden bodied version of the Talbo Guitar called the Talbo Woody.

[ezbass]

Those headstock ‘inlays’ are all sorts of dodgy.

[Bassassin]

Here's my real Talbo for good measure!

 

 

Very shiny, very whiney - as in highly prone to microphonic feedback.

 

30 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Those headstock ‘inlays’ are all sorts of dodgy.

 

I thought so - and some very odd-looking marking to the wood/finish under the decal on both of them.

[BigRedX]

15 hours ago, Bassassin said:

Very shiny, very whiney - as in highly prone to microphonic feedback.

 

What inside yours?

 

Mine was completely stuffed full of cushion foam, and I never had any feedback problems with it, although I never used it at anything other than home practice volume.

[Bassassin]

6 hours ago, BigRedX said:

 

What inside yours?

 

Mine was completely stuffed full of cushion foam, and I never had any feedback problems with it, although I never used it at anything other than home practice volume.

 

Same with mine - stuffed with foam & fine at low volume. At gig levels it really didn't like my standard aggressive/toppy mildly overdriven sound. Was tameable, but hard to get the grit & growl I was after.