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Dick's Hohner/Warmoth 6
string bass.
"This started life as a Hohner baritone guitar, but the regular scale neck
it came fitted with
didn't really work. I went onto the Warmoth website and discovered they had just
started manufacturing baritone necks with a 28 3/8" scale that
could be fitted directly
onto a Strat or Tele to convert it. So I had one sent over. While I was
waiting for it to arrive, I removed the scratch plate and fitted a couple of rewound
Strat style pick-ups and made a blanking plate to cover the centre pick-up hole. (The selector
switch is a three-position one and I figured that the neck/bridge combination offered a
better alternative to a centre pick-up.) When the neck turned up, I took the whole lot
over to Mark
Pressling at Arbiters and he took it home to do in his spare time. Sod's
law had it that the geometry of the Hohner was totally different from a Fender, so Mark had
all sorts of problems getting the neck to fit right. But he persevered and in the end presented me with an
absolutely beautifully finished job. He's a genius and whatever he's
earning now, he deserves a pay rise! So I now have not a baritone but a six-string bass
that goes 'twang' right down to low E with a great selection of
tones."
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