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Step back 45 years to the sort of bass your dad (or maybe your grandad) learned to play on.
That glorious tobacco sunburst finish is a true picture, it really is that rich. The bass is all original, and has picked up a couple of marks along the way. There's a none-too-obvious blemish on the front and a repaired hole on the back. The neck was re-set in 2007 by the top Hofner man in London (Andy Gibson, who does all of Music Ground's and Macari's Hofners).
She's strung with period-correct flats and high-ish action.
Sound? Woody. No, very woody. No really, I mean [i]seriously[/i] woody. Can easily deliver a truly superb, dark dub sound but switch in an instant to a classic Beatles tone.
This case has more mojo than Muddy Waters. This case looks like it stepped out to the corner shop in 1969 for a packet of Rothmans and came back 30 years later after touring the States and Japan.
This cased is [b][i]relic'd[/i][/b], OK.