last friday , my partner and i popped into our local music store ......... we kinda both love old vintage gear so this store always has some weird and wonderful, vintage gear in stock.......... and i know it's not everyones cup of tea or pint of beer, but we both addicted to old music gear..........
and lo and behold we saw this hanging on the wall.......... and carol my partner who is a budding bassist just fell in love with it ......... so we bought it ... ? after some negotiation we got it cheap under the understanding that it is sold "as is" so , we very aware it will take some new pots and a new 3 way switch ect so a 'fixer upper' BUT even as it stands it was in working condition and structurally sound ...as in good action and everything worked even if the 3 way switch needed tweaking once in a while ............ but it was bargain basement price
i'm intruiged by this bass.......... it's only markings are President "deluxe" on the headstock .not another label or "made in ....." stamp anywhere ......... now i have no idea of the heritage of this........but i do know that hofner made a line called president at one point ...and oddly enough due to me buying my hofner jazz guitar a while back i learnt they have a range called "very thin" which is a hollow body thats thinner than a normall 330 or 335 .now this bass has the exact same shape "very thin" body and even the two pointy horns........ so maybe it's some hofner spin off maybe not ......
anyway it sounds delightfully fat and round (very P bass) but has 2 huge single coil pups and a thin slender neck shich is decorated by the wierdest zebra type binding ....never in all my years have i seen something like that on the binding
also it's a bass with a trapese tailpiece and a wierd bridge cover .....
so anyone who can shed more light on this let me know .......... as i tried some internet googling but to little avail........
anyway some pics enjoy this wierd and wonderful low end machine
