Mosrite "The Ventures" mid-60s bass - *SOLD* £2000 Harrow

[Happy Jack]

You may be familiar with the expression, "now there's something you don't see every day".

 

 

I suspect that it is appropriate in this case.

 

 

These handmade basses are each unique and they're a right bugger to date reliably, but this one ticks all the boxes for the company's heyday: 1964-66.

 

 

Not a re-issue or a restoration job, this is absolutely the real deal ... a bass that was bought while surf music was in the charts and then gigged relentlessly for many years.

 

 

You want mojo? It's got mojo? You want to see what genuine buckle-rash looks like when no angle grinder was involved?

 

 

 

As far as I can tell, this ws all-original and unmolested when I bought it many years ago, and I've looked after it. Yes, all that wear was there when I bought it.

 

 

Currently strung with Black Beauties (or something very similar - hey, it was a long time ago, alright?) this has all the shortscale thuddy goodness you'd expect from this era.

 

 

 

 

Comes with the cheap-but-sturdy rigid gigbag it rests on in these photos, but realistically I'm not about to entrust this thing to a courier.

 

 

It might get scratched.

 

 

Collection from Harrow or the West End, possible meet-up within a sensible distance from Harrow.

 

Edited July 31 by Happy Jack

[Aero71]

Now that is a very cool bass! 😍

[Cosmo Valdemar]

I thought it was your Ovation but no, this is now officially the coolest bass on Basschat.

Entwistle played one briefly in the 60s... no surprise there.