Help Identify this headless bass
Thu, 05/01/2008 - 5:15pm — roostor
Hi, I need help identifying this headless bass which belongs to a friend. He got it some years back at a Pawn Shop, and says he repainted it, but that it had no manufactors logo or other identifying marks on it....I thought maybe someone can recognize it and describe what it is. I know it sure is a sweet playing little thing.
I am brand new at this, so let me know if I don't have this in the correct forum...and I"m not too computer saavy either so I'm hoping the picture comes out.
thanks
roostor
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A picture would help and it
A picture would help and it dose not show. I would say upload the pic to Photobucket or Flicker and then you could at least put a link to the image if you do not know how to use the image code. Ahh hell, never ,mind, I see Wheat added an attachment modual. duh my bad
And
Hazz
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Looks like an old
Looks like an old Steinberg
Hazz
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Hazz....Thanks for the
Hazz....Thanks for the feedback....I will get out on the web and see If I can find any thing about an old Steinberg.
Found it! It's a Kramer
Found it! It's a Kramer Duke (Google Image Search). AKA "The Duke." From the 1980s. They made a guitar version, too.
Wheat
Some cool pics and info
Some cool pics and info here, too: http://www.vintagekramer.com/alum.htm. Scroll down the "Duke Series."
Wheat
Not a bad looking bass,
Not a bad looking bass, aluminum neck, twin J pups wired as a humbucker with 3 way switch. I wouldn't mind one myself.
I don't think it's a
I don't think it's a Steinberger (Google image search results). I think it's a knockoff of some type. Steinberger's used the double-ball-end strings. And this one is clearly designed for regular strings (just with the tuning pegs on the body instead of the headstock.
Hondo made some Steinberger knock-offs, but I don't think this is one of their either. I've seen this bass before, though. Hmmm.
Wheat
As old as it looks I was not
As old as it looks I was not sure but I also was not sure who made headless basses back in the day.
But it looks as though you nailed it Wheat
Kramer Duke
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Thanks
Way togo Wheat....and Thank you so much....my friend Grey and I have searched on google until we were going crazy...but never found it...and here you found it in such a short time.....
Thanks again,
Roostor