Info on Microfrets bass from oooold days???

Google is your friend. I did a quick search and found a few guitar and bass pics plus just enough history to tell you that they were made in Frederick, Maryland in the mid '60s.

 

http://www.microfret.com/

Yayyy! I'm good at finding stuff!

I guess they're remaking them? No basses though.

 

I owned a microfret 6 string bass. I have photos,but the only one scanned is on my web site mixed in a photo with a number of basses. It had a second "bridge" where the nut usually is.
A economy 6-string it was.Scroll down to the bass collection photo and it is the 3rd from the left.White pickups .dark red body and a reverse head stock.
http://garrygoodman.com/photo_gallery.htm

 

I still have one from '71.

 

I used to have a late 60s standard model, and yes, the intonable nuts were a bitch. The company wasn't really a failure, they just couldn't make enough of a dent in the marketplace. You can find used ones around there, and down into the VA suburbs, semi-regularly. Action Guitar often has one or two, but usually guitar modesl.

I have to admit, I never really liked mine...couldn't get enough body out of the sound. But it was neat, and kinda unique. Kinda reminded me a bit of the Mosrite Celebrity.

In the 90s, there was a surf band in Frederick called Killers From Space, that played Microfrets exclusively. The drummer of that band operates some kind of Microfrets appreciation website now.

 

what was so unique about them other than the nut

 

Anyone seen this Microfrets bass?