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[quote name='skankdelvar' post='520451' date='Jun 22 2009, 01:18 AM']The sentence should have read:
[quote]And a whole lot prettier than the Bass Five that Fender also knocked out. Funny how neither has cropped up as a re-issue.[/quote][/quote]
:lol: I love it! We were both wrong... and right. :D :) :rolleyes:

Not often that happens.

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[quote name='BottomEndian' post='520689' date='Jun 22 2009, 12:54 PM']I'd forgotten about Lindert! I quite wanted one of their guitars back in my late teens. Heady days... :)

What's the scale length on that?[/quote]

[i][b]Production dates[/b]
1997 - 2002

[b]Information[/b]
The Franklin Bass VI is a six string electric bass with a single cutaway semi-hollow body. It has Lindert's Escape Velocity(tm) neck, ergonomically designed to be half rounded and half vee shaped. It is has 24 frets, 30 inch scale and utilizes a 21/16 bridge and 121/32 nut width. The Franklin( Bass VI is tuned one octave below a guitar and uses 85 to 21 gauge strings. The neck is maple with rosewood fingerboard and has Lindert's patented Thumbs UP headstock.

Like all of the guitars and basses in Lindert's Locomotive Series, the Franklin Bass VI has a semi-hollow body texture painted beechwood brown and cream.

The Franklin(tm) Bass VI was made between 1997 and 2002 and was available with humbuckers. In 1997 it sold for $809.00, with standard hand wound Alnico pickups $779.00. There were three other Bass VI models in the Locomotive Series: the Locomotive T, Locomotive S and the Diesel.[/i]

Apart from the kooky looks and the batty headstock, the real interest here is the neck. The second you pick up a Lindert, you find yourself wondering why no one else has copied the idea ... it just feels instantly "right".

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[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='519211' date='Jun 20 2009, 12:23 PM']I have been reading through the Fender book and stumbled across these



Has anyone ever played one?

Are they more like a baritone guitar?

Has anyone ever even seen one because I haven't.

Or just any info I'm intreagued.[/quote]

It's a Baritone guitar through and through.
The Low-E string is a .95 so it's close to a bass but nonetheless, a guitar play wise.
Obviously, you can get some CRACKING sub tones with it!
They used to be used to create the "Tick-tack" bass sound for rockabiliy players in the 60's by having one person play the bass and another play one of these, both playing the same line.

But THIS is more what a Fender VI should be!

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[quote name='Kongo' post='520740' date='Jun 22 2009, 01:53 PM']It's a Baritone guitar through and through.[/quote]

ahem...it's a bass...

actually, forget it...i've been down this road too many times :)

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[quote name='BottomEndian' post='520695' date='Jun 22 2009, 12:57 PM']:lol: I love it! We were both wrong... and right. ;) :) :rolleyes:

Not often that happens.[/quote]

Quick, let's do a double team spanging with frying pans! That'll teach him for not being clear! :D

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[quote name='ahpook' post='520790' date='Jun 22 2009, 02:48 PM']ahem...it's a bass...

actually, forget it...i've been down this road too many times :rolleyes:[/quote]

Yeah it's "Bass" in terms of tuning but not a "Bass guitar"...Ok maybe we'll call it a "Contrabass Guitar" instead. :)

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I read something about the Fender Bass V here. Coincidentally, I just stumbled upon one on eBay at a rediculous price:
[url="http://cgi.ebay.com/Ultra-rare-Fender-Bass-V-from-1966-in-Olympic-White_W0QQitemZ280361980159QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item4146e050ff&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A10%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A3%7C294%3A50"]http://cgi.ebay.com/Ultra-rare-Fender-Bass...%3A3%7C294%3A50[/url]

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[quote name='LeftyJ' post='523709' date='Jun 25 2009, 02:58 PM']I read something about the Fender Bass V here. Coincidentally, I just stumbled upon one on eBay at a rediculous price:
[url="http://cgi.ebay.com/Ultra-rare-Fender-Bass-V-from-1966-in-Olympic-White_W0QQitemZ280361980159QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item4146e050ff&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A10%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A3%7C294%3A50"]http://cgi.ebay.com/Ultra-rare-Fender-Bass...%3A3%7C294%3A50[/url][/quote]
Does that seem like a ridiculous price for a 43-year-old rarity? That's an honest question. I know nowt about vintage instruments... apart from the fact I can't afford them. :)

Tell you what: I'm going to post this in the Ebay Links forum and see what the consensus is down there...

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[quote name='BottomEndian' post='523727' date='Jun 25 2009, 03:14 PM']Does that seem like a ridiculous price for a 43-year-old rarity? That's an honest question. I know nowt about vintage instruments... apart from the fact I can't afford them. :)

Tell you what: I'm going to post this in the Ebay Links forum and see what the consensus is down there...[/quote]

Well even the Re-issue is a few grand to buy!

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[quote name='LeftyJ' post='524164' date='Jun 25 2009, 10:02 PM']There is no Bass V reissue :)

Only a Bass VI.[/quote]

Ah sorry, I mean, a Re-issue Fender Bass VI is still a few grand to buy.
I don't like the Fender V...One pickup on that extended body? It's clear no one knew what a bass was to be back then...It's just...wrong!
Good idea having a high-C...but why make the fretboard shorter and the body longer to compensate?
Had they have kept it normal it would have sold!

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I just noticed Ibanez has released this, in the fine tradition of bass/guitar hybrids like the Fender VI:
[url="http://www.ibanez.co.jp/eu/news/f_products/2009/Showcase/SR7VIISC.html"]http://www.ibanez.co.jp/eu/news/f_products...e/SR7VIISC.html[/url]

:)

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[quote name='LeftyJ' post='525113' date='Jun 26 2009, 06:10 PM']I just noticed Ibanez has released this, in the fine tradition of bass/guitar hybrids like the Fender VI:
[url="http://www.ibanez.co.jp/eu/news/f_products/2009/Showcase/SR7VIISC.html"]http://www.ibanez.co.jp/eu/news/f_products...e/SR7VIISC.html[/url]

:)[/quote]

Yeah it was on their site early this year.
Japan only though. :rolleyes:

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[quote name='LeftyJ' post='525113' date='Jun 26 2009, 06:10 PM']I just noticed Ibanez has released this, in the fine tradition of bass/guitar hybrids like the Fender VI:
[url="http://www.ibanez.co.jp/eu/news/f_products/2009/Showcase/SR7VIISC.html"]http://www.ibanez.co.jp/eu/news/f_products...e/SR7VIISC.html[/url]

:)[/quote]
At the nut, the break angle of the strings looks terrible.

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[quote name='Kongo' post='525134' date='Jun 26 2009, 07:26 PM']Yeah it was on their site early this year.
Japan only though. :)[/quote]

No it isn't :rolleyes:
I first heard of it on the website of a German store that has one on order:
[url="http://www.musik-schmidt.de/gb-Ibanez-SR7ViiSC.html"]http://www.musik-schmidt.de/gb-Ibanez-SR7ViiSC.html[/url]

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[quote name='skankdelvar' post='527860' date='Jun 29 2009, 04:16 PM']...a 7 string baritone? The work of The Devil.

I've decided - I want a Bass V re-issue. Even though they haven't done one yet... (waits for other shoe to drop).[/quote]
...CLUNK!

Not a reissue, but there's [url="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260437676663"]another Bass V[/url] on eBay now. Half the price of the last one too. Very probably a refin, as the description says. After all, the neck plate's got buckle rash [i]in extremis[/i], but the body finish is pretty much spotless.

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