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Can anyone identify this bass?
- Thread starter mc924
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Roland GR 88
Commercial User
I'd guess it's an HSP 90 or thereabouts.
(High School Project 1990)
Anytime you see an odd selection of parts from different guitars or an odd selection of generic parts intended to be used for different guitars all that's usually missing is a terrible paint job to give it away.
Someone may recognize the body and/or neck but the single J p/u is a head scratcher.
On another note…. If your handle is MC924 wth are doing looking at this pos?
(High School Project 1990)
Anytime you see an odd selection of parts from different guitars or an odd selection of generic parts intended to be used for different guitars all that's usually missing is a terrible paint job to give it away.
Someone may recognize the body and/or neck but the single J p/u is a head scratcher.
On another note…. If your handle is MC924 wth are doing looking at this pos?
Nah, doesn't look like an Ibanez neck. From this angle maybe a bit like a Musician headstock but the rest doesn't remotely resemble an Ibanez neck. The cheaper necks are the old GIO necks but the headstock is wrong.
With all the gunk on the strings, I bet it plays like butter.
GC rated "Very Good Condition".
GC rated "Very Good Condition".
The implication, I believe, is that MC924s (the active electronics version of the Ibanez Musician bass) are very fine instruments so if the OP plays one - hence the screen name - he shouldn't have any interest in this junky project bass. …that's how I read it, anyway.
As for the OP's question; looks like an assemblage of cheap import parts. Probably little or no monetary value. Potentially fun to clean up and play but pretty hard to tell from a photo.
It almost looks like a mash-up of an entry level Yamaha, and an old Peavey.
Whatever the hell it is, I really dig it (I reserve the right to do something about the finish, though)/
I played a for few years at a camp where it was pretty much impossible to lock anything up, so I wanted a bass that I wouldn't fret too much about - built it out of a de-fretted (yes, there is an ironic joke in there somewhere) 66 J bass neck and a random Dean body (had to enlarge the neck pocket) that came out of a parts box in the local music store. It cost me a whopping $135, including the gig bag, but it turned out to be a very decent instrument. Didn't get stolen from camp, but a few years later, someone broke into my house, bypassed a few nicer instruments, and stole it.
I'm guessing this has a similar origin story. And that it has very little low end, as all it has in a bridge pickup. Probably some kid who was in a band with a guitarist with only a bridge pickup. Given the stripes, this could be Michael Anthony's first bass.
I'm guessing this has a similar origin story. And that it has very little low end, as all it has in a bridge pickup. Probably some kid who was in a band with a guitarist with only a bridge pickup. Given the stripes, this could be Michael Anthony's first bass.
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