John McAuley

[John McAuley]

I recently rescued a bass guitar from a skip, a 1982 Westone thunder 1

which I can tell in its day was well loved and probably Gig’d with. Surprisingly it doesn’t need a lot of work to get it back up to playing condition again.

but I’ve noticed that it has an E string in place of the A string so its

E

E

D

G

but tuned correctly 

E, (A,) D, G

was this some old school was of getting a better sound back in the 80’s/90’s or just something that a Westie player would do.

 

[Reggaebass]

Welcome John 👍, nice find, I’ve never tried that myself, how does the A string sound with an E in its place 

[Velarian]

Sounds more like the original A string broke and whoever replaced it didn’t have one to hand so just put whatever they could find on it. If they didn’t care enough about the bass to chuck it in the skip they probably wouldn’t care about correct string gauge. 

[John McAuley]

The guy had recently bought the house was stripping it out and found 2 guitars in the loft, didn’t want them saw no use or monetary value in either of them, “just take them” he said. “They’ll be covered in house bricks soon”

so I took them both. A fender Stratocaster and the Westone.

[Velarian]

44 minutes ago, John McAuley said:

A fender Stratocaster.

!! 😲

 

 what’s that like?

[John McAuley]

Fender fixed up and sold

it didn’t survive totally unmarked but after I finished working on it didn’t look too bad. The Westone was in its case so that took all the skip damage fender done first that’s why I’ve only just put the Westone on marketplace for sale.