Help Identifying Bass?

[JIO]

I wonder who was the 1st to do a red/lack-burst finish on their guitars/basses. Next to 3TSB, it was one of the most common finishes coming out of Japan in the '60s.

 

[pie_man_25]

My dad's got a teoecaster knockoff guitar with a lot of similar features - that neck with what string retainer design and 0-fret, that truss rod adjuster at the body, that tailpiece.

Whoever made it it's probably the same company, I think Japanese.

 

[Pdaddy1978]

That bass is dying to be be in your indi-rock band.

 

[Williethump]

I wonder who was the 1st to do a red/lack-burst finish on their guitars/basses. Next to 3TSB, it was one of the most common finishes coming out of Japan in the '60s.

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Japanese people love the color red, especially the dark red of their Hinomaru (the meat ball). In 1974 a Japanese student bought a blue two-stroke 250cc Puch (All-State) motorcycle from me, a double-piston 'twingle'. Next time I saw it he'd jingle can sprayed it bright red, and not even Hinomaru dark blood red. Didn't bother masking either. Hideous. He was not very mechanical and kept bringing it back so I could show him again the arcane starting procedures. Finally I had to insist he was on his own and don't bring it back. He's probably alive today because he couldn't start it.