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$20 bass find: did I do ok?
- Thread starter Saint
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Yep. $20 well spent. I like that weird Danelectro styling but wouldn't pay full price for it. $20, no hesitation. Bridge looks like it's too vintage tech to intonate, but I've never owned one.
Lucky You!
Lucky You!
The bridge is definitely retro-low-tech, but you can get surprisingly close if you fiddle with it enough. At least on the E and G, and hope the A and D fall in line...
Wow, that's a great score.
I'll double your money if you want to sell it...
I'll double your money if you want to sell it...
$20 is an amazing deal for that bass regardless of what year it is. Nice score!
LowNloud1
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It's a great deal. I would have broken my fingers trying to get my wallet out at that price!
I would buy it.....and turn around and sell it for thirty times as much
How is the neck?
If this is a 60's era Danelectro, I don't believe they came with truss rods, hence the low survival rate.
When I was looking at these in guitars, about 1 in 20 were playable.
You can get it to intimate though you might be giving it to a tech to make a bridge that is better and allows you to go back to the original.
GREAT SCORE!!
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I would've paid twice that much just for a decoration to hang up.
