Headless/through-neck no-name. What's this then, eh?

[Bassassin]

Apologies to anyone watching this & keeping schtum, but this is very interesting:

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The body/neck has an air of early 80s JapCrap/Matsumoku about it, & my first thought was that it was a headless conversion using Hohner parts, but looking a bit closer I'm not so sure. I think it's a factory job - and those Hohners with licensed Steinberger parts/designs came out of Cort in Korea.

Cort went a bit mental at this point and made a variety of headlesses, sold under their own name as well as Hohner, including a paddle-shaped headless with P & J pups, as well as a headless Precision. They were also making some very nice through-neck stripy headed basses & guitars in various designs, which often turn up branded as Kay. So I'm inclined to think this is a very uncommon mid 80s Cort factory hybrid - anyone else ever seen one of these before?

I won't be bidding on this due to having a bad case of The Skint but it would be good to see it inducted into the BC collective - so one of you buy it!

Jon.

[Kiwi]

Looks like it has a Westone type of body shape but the headless basses I know Westone released look nothing like that.

[Bassassin]

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='826110' date='May 3 2010, 01:13 AM']Looks like it has a Westone type of body shape but the headless basses I know Westone released look nothing like that.[/quote]
I know what you mean - it has that Matsumoku "look" to it. The closest Westone would be the [url="http://www.westone.info/superheadlessbass.html"]Super Headless[/url] - but it's much less "traditional" looking. I'm now back to thinking it's a headless mod -the routing for the tailpiece looks rough & inaccurate, and the body base contour is probably just a convenient coincidence. I always thought a Warwick Vampyre would make a good headless mod for the very same reason...

J.

[warwickhunt]

[quote name='Bassassin' post='826221' date='May 3 2010, 09:42 AM']I'm now back to thinking it's a headless mod -the routing for the tailpiece looks rough & inaccurate, and the body base contour is probably just a convenient coincidence.[/quote]

I agree; the rout looks a bit oversized and rough. I would imagine that the tricky bit with a conversion like this is the truss rod.

[tauzero]

Would anyone build a headless with the truss-rod adjustment at the body end?

[karlfer]

Those Oval shaped markers on the 'board ring a bell, just can't remember why.