Bassassin Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 Apologies to anyone watching this & keeping schtum, but this is very interesting: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300422922371"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=300422922371[/url] 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 Looks like it has a Westone type of body shape but the headless basses I know Westone released look nothing like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted May 3, 2010 Author Share Posted May 3, 2010 [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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickhunt Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 [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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 Would anyone build a headless with the truss-rod adjustment at the body end? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlfer Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 Those Oval shaped markers on the 'board ring a bell, just can't remember why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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