Hello Kent

[Spidey2112]

Interesting piece of work... I'm going to say TD stands for touchdown!

 

[Thornton Davis]

I'm going to say TD stands for touchdown!

Good call there Spidey!

TD

 

[Thornton Davis]

Minty fresh!

Love the chunky thumb rest AND tug bar (even though I'd never use them, they're like enormous chrome bumpers). Were those stock?

Yes, they are stock installed at the factory.

TD

 

[JxBass]

I too have been searching for a long-lost Kent. My first bass was a Kent that I bought for $79 (at an electronics store) as a young teenager in 1964. I traded it in toward my first "nice" bass, a '66 Guild Starfire I that I still have. Decades later, as nostalgia crept in, I started looking for that old model Kent bass without much luck. It seemed that most Kent basses were short scale and I could have sworn mine was long scale, though I didn't know anything about scale length way back then. Thanks to the internet, I eventually learned that I had the Kent Model 670 bass, but locating one remained difficult for a very long time.

Recently a couple popped up. I was able to get the one that appeared to be in better condition for 1/2 the price of the one that looked fairly abused. When it arrived I was very pleased at its condition, playability, and tone; overall it seems even nicer than the one I had as a kid (I knew nothing about bass setup back then). My research tells me that it was made by at the Guyatone factory, though I'm still researching. Anyway, here it is. Oh, and by the way, it is a long scale

 

[Dadagoboi]

I too have been searching for a long-lost Kent. My first bass was a Kent that I bought for $79 (at an electronics store) as a young teenager in 1964. I traded it in toward my first "nice" bass, a '66 Guild Starfire I that I still have. Decades later, as nostalgia crept in, I started looking for that old model Kent bass without much luck. It seemed that most Kent basses were short scale and I could have sworn mine was long scale, though I didn't know anything about scale length way back then. Thanks to the internet, I eventually learned that I had the Kent Model 670 bass, but locating one remained difficult for a very long time.

Recently a couple popped up. I was able to get the one that appeared to be in better condition for 1/2 the price of the one that looked fairly abused. When it arrived I was very pleased at its condition, playability, and tone; overall it seems even nicer than the one I had as a kid (I knew nothing about bass setup back then). My research tells me that it was made by at the Guyatone factory, though I'm still researching. Anyway, here it is. Oh, and by the way, it is a long scale

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Great condition! That model was also my first bass at about the same time. After that a 1960 EBO which I still have, the Kent pickup lived on it for a while. I don't remember what I did with the rest of it. About 10 years ago I sought one out on Ebay but didn't find one worth buying.

Jack Bruce.

 

[HaphAsSard]

That guy has it all- dual thumb rests, rocker switches,bridge cover, binding-sweet! I think my first bass was a Kent-did they make a Hofner style one?

If you meant a Beatle bass, apparently they did make something, but more of an asymmetric version of an Eko violin bass:
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If you had another Höfner design in mind, I've no idea if they made copies of those.
EDIT: Oh, already answered, nevermind.

Yup they did in the 800 Series. Its body was A-Symmetrical shaped Model 833.