Identify these basses, please

[erik_ghoulet]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BJfDvSITY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z9BEUL005Q

I'm sure someone will know by the distinctive headstock, which I've seen before but can't place....Think they're the same manufacture if not model?

 

[probasser]

hagstrom maybe?

 

[bongomania]

Wow, I was not expecting to go from Johnny Cash to Cabaret Voltaire!

 

[jgsbass]

Microfrets

 

[bongomania]

I tried to get some decent screen shots. Basically impossible with the Johnny Cash video though.

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[DrSmaggs]

Would it be Reverend?

 

[erik_ghoulet]

Wow...fast and knowledgeable...thanks guys! JGSBass, it DOES look like Microfrets. Never heard of them 'til now. Look at this:

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I'm gonna surf around to see what else I can dig up.

Cabs and Cash, both made great records...

 

[smcd]

Microfrets

Absolutely.

 

[erik_ghoulet]

Ok....used by many country artists and British post-punks...how cooool! Weird and wonderful instruments. I'm thinking impossible to find collector items and a lot of $$$ in 2010. Oh well...

 

[bongomania]

Not impossible to find, but uncommon; and only a lot of $$$ if you buy from a dealer. Good deals can be found sometimes: http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Micro-Fret...QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item3a576fe84f

 

[hankazoid]

Yup... Micro-frets indeed. I've been looking for the Husky for a while. They pop up on ebay every now and then, and go from $900 to $1500.

 

[M.R. Ogle]

I know you're not supposed to post "ugly bass" comments, but....

I played with a guitarist who had a MicroFrets guitar, He hated it so much that he wire-snipped all the strings off it and dropped it off the stage at the end of the night.

I can't imagine seeking one of these things... then or now....