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06-27-2012, 10:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: san francisco bay area | | | Aluminum bass info needed
I've had this bass awhile now but have a few questions. Has the neck been replaced? Did they come wit hat peg tuners?
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06-27-2012, 10:22 AM
|  | I want to be HER bicycle | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Useless participation in convo bump; a local luthier had one, but it's been a long time since I've seen his and I cannot recall details. I knew a guy whose wife had gotten ahold of one and stuffed it up into her attic- antique-hoarding I think. I may look into that one, I'm pretty certain it's still hidden away.
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06-27-2012, 03:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Sugar Creek, MO | | | I can't help with an answer and for that I apologize, but that is one groovy looking instrument. I love it! |
06-27-2012, 04:21 PM
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06-28-2012, 04:58 AM
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Looks like a Pfretschner, the wooden neck would be correct. The hat peg tuners, not sure.
Ask james...he knows more about these then anyone else I know.  |
06-28-2012, 11:13 AM
| | Spruce dork | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asheville, nc | | | Pfretschner....
I'd forgot about that one; it has been a couple of years since I have seen any photos of it.
Are those guts with a Spirocore E???? 'Like it!!!!!
I've never seen one with original hatpegs, but the baseplates are period correct German origin and the gearing looks right, so they may have come stock with the bass. The neck looks original, but you can see where it has been off at one time, the button was broke, and they redrilled the holes. There are typically two screws mounted where you can see the dowels in the back of your neck.
'Mind if I add the photo to the 'site?
Pfun Pfretschner stufffp...
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06-28-2012, 04:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: san francisco bay area | | | Thanks folks.
James. Awesome. Exactly what I was after.
Feel free to use the photos and let me know if you'd like other shots.
While we're at it.
Any thoughts on rivets that rattle and buzz?
Super glue? |
06-28-2012, 04:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: san francisco bay area | | | Another shot |
06-28-2012, 07:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Montreal, Quebec | | | James, I think the setup is actually Gut A,D,G, with a Eudoxa E. Unless that wrapping is green, that's a Eudoxa, methinks.
By the way.. what an odd bass. Those paintings sure are weird (to me).
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06-28-2012, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Herbie 80's  James, I think the setup is actually Gut A,D,G, with a Eudoxa E. Unless that wrapping is green, that's a Eudoxa, methinks.
By the way.. what an odd bass. Those paintings sure are weird (to me). | Looks green to me ie Oliv...
Fun bass either way!  I remember pix of that one being posted a couple of years ago. |
06-30-2012, 11:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: san francisco bay area | | | Hey Molly... Thanks! Great site with some good info. Jake wins the string I.D.
I do need to deal with the loose rivets.
Any ideas? |
06-30-2012, 01:36 PM
| | Spruce dork | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asheville, nc | | | I've never seen a Pfretschner that was rivited from the factory. All of the ones I've seen have been screwed together, so the rattles can be fixed by either tightening the existing screws or by going up a size in thread and using new screws. Typically the top /ribs / all internal blocks are screwed together and the back has a folded over edge that has been crimped tight with a metal working tool. |
08-05-2012, 12:20 PM
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08-10-2012, 10:31 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Stouffville, Ontario | | | Cool looking bass! I'd rock that!
Richie |
08-11-2012, 09:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: MA | | | Man, I would love to show up with that bass for a jazz gig. |
08-11-2012, 11:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rocket City Arkansas | | | Mine has the same hatpegs, and it looks identical to mine except for the finish. Same flat back.
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10-03-2012, 05:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: St. Louis,MO | | | Same as mine also. |
10-05-2012, 11:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: san francisco bay area | | | Thanks for all the info folks!
This winter I'll put some attention on this bass and get rid of the rattles and such.
Onward! |
10-05-2012, 02:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Germany | | if they would have an aluminium bass in france, would that be a full metal jacquet? 
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