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


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

 

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I suspect that it is appropriate in this case.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

 

 

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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.

 

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It might get scratched.

 

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

 

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