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03-10-2009, 04:17 PM
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Help me identify the age and origins of this bass I picked up on Craiglist yesterday. Based on the tuners and bouts, I'm guessing it is German and more than 100 years old.
Any ideas?
It needs the neck reset, but the body has no open cracks or seams.
Thanks in advance.
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03-10-2009, 04:20 PM
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03-10-2009, 04:24 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Schroeder Cabinets | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Springfield, OR | | | What price?
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03-10-2009, 05:07 PM
| | | | I'd rather not say the exact price. Suffice it to say it was well-priced. After I invest the money needed to fix it up, I think it will make a rather nice instrument. I have no idea what it's worth will be, since I haven't really been able to play it.
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03-11-2009, 04:47 AM
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bass luthier, johnson string inst. | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: waltham, mass. | | | nice job. is it possible to shim and/or replace the finger board instead of resetting the neck?
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03-11-2009, 05:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Boone, NC | | | Is it ply or carved? The shape of it remindes me of a kay that has been refinished, but I'm pretty aweful at guessing what things are on the interweb. kurt- I get the vibe that the neck needs to be reset because of failure, the heel looks cracked in the pics. |
03-11-2009, 05:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Land of Lakland | | | Looks French from the outline of the heel
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03-11-2009, 06:28 AM
| | AES Fine Instruments | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Brewster, NY, USA | | | [quote=uprightben;7100067]Is it ply or carved? The shape of it remindes me of a kay that has been refinished, but I'm pretty aweful at guessing what things are on the interweb. /QUOTE]
Good eye. I think it's actually a King, made by the H.N. White Co. in Cleveland, OH. |
03-11-2009, 07:12 AM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Quote:
Originally Posted by arnoldschnitzer  Good eye. I think it's actually a King, made by the H.N. White Co. in Cleveland, OH. | Wow! I never would have guessed that. Now I'd really like to hear what it turns out to be. |
03-11-2009, 07:21 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Omaha Nebraska | | | Well what ever it is, it looks beautiful!
But I seriously doubt its a king. I have never heard or seen of a king built to that quality.
hope you like it! |
03-11-2009, 07:22 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Omaha Nebraska | | | The wood makes the bass look like its 150 years old.... so its NOT a king for sure.. |
03-11-2009, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Brandon Tuomiko The wood makes the bass look like its 150 years old.... so its NOT a king for sure.. | You sure you wanna go toe to toe with that guy? |
03-11-2009, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Uncletoad You sure you wanna go toe to toe with that guy? | Yeah, that would be like you goin' toe to toe with Scotty.
However, I suspect something pretty funny is going on.
A good shot of the scroll would seal the deal.
Watch this, Toodles.....:
Hey Arnold....lookit the ACTION on that mother******! 
And, tingj....please make yer god damn bed before you post a scroll shot.
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03-11-2009, 07:57 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Omaha Nebraska | | | Hmm... if king made basses like this... I think I would buy one! Looks sweet... are they plywood if its king? |
03-11-2009, 07:58 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Omaha Nebraska | | | oh and I have also never seen a king with those tuners.... ??? who knows... Take it to a luthier or sumtin. |
03-11-2009, 08:43 AM
|  | Moderator Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Bloomington, IN | | Scroll down to the middle of this page and you can see some detailed pictures of the old Kings (great basses). I'm just a casual observer, but there are many similarities I see (the heel of the neck/neck angle and overstand, the shape of the top, the button). Was the neck broken on this bass? I can't tell if that line in the picture is a break, but if it is that's exactly where all of those Kings would break their necks (there are some pix on the Fretwell page of Kings with the neck break, too).
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