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Nah, turn it upside down.. ( Jimi didn't need Lefty options 😂)

Woah.. Mark King style plaster on the thumb too... 👍

Yeeaah, um, I have kinda been that plssed up bloke a couple of times.. One springs to mind, i was ( uncharacteristically) off me face at someone's gig, the band were a bit shlte too (in my defence).. The singer btw had a classic "porn 'tache" which did look kind of ridiculous.. Anyway in the gaps between every song I was repeatedly hollering "FREDDIE MERCURY..!" at the top of me voice (which can be quite loud anyway)... You could tell he was getting rattled, but surprisingly none of his compadres, or venue staff, tried to lamp me or throw me out, perhaps the big mohican hair do I had at the time saved me, who knows.. Amusingly (to me) much of the audience were Gothy types, and they were tut-tutting like proper old middle aged Mary Whitehouses too... Nobs... Anyway confession is good for the soul, and honest, I won't do it again, probably..

Also Burns do a very cool looking Vl version, I was undecided between one of those or a Gretsch at one point, but thought the Burns might be too similar to the Squier Vl, having the same kind of layout, so went for the Gretsch, which is quite different.

A few more bass 6's.. I'm guessing by the mid 60s it was felt worthwhile for manufacturers to offer them as an option. Fender seems to have "tweaked" the spec on their Vl a few times too

I've never played it I'm glad to say, as I recall it seems to jump about all over the place too..

I'm very glad I got the Squier Vl too, it's brilliant.. the Gretsch also, it's different enough to the Squier even if it were strung as E to E though I'm leaving it as a "baritone" for now. I'm playing these all the time tbh, I haven't had a 4 banger out for a week or more!

So how much did you charge then? 😂

Exactly the one I have too 👍... A to A works very well ... as the Squier Vl I've got is tuned as a regular E to E I'm leaving the Gretsch in A. The Bigsby works rather better than the Fender trem tbh.. tho I need to grind the stop off so the lever has full rotation, it sits too low at the mo..

They did a modern-day MIC type copy certainly in various versions, tho the original 3x3 headstock types don't seem as common when I looked at them, many of the modern ones had a fugly 6 in line HS thing. Some ebay seller in Germany had a couple of the more pukka looking remakes with the 3x3 HS , about 500 quid/euro dollars a pop As @msb says they're likely marketed as a "baritone"

Aanyway.. Returning to vintage stuff.. Presumably this is the 58 type Danelectro in question Often used to double upright bass parts on records, so called tic-tac, then used by Mr Eddy & others for it's deep twangyness 😁

Or boys when he's dressed up as Kate Bush

He does forget tho, poor old chap...

I'm quite happy with history the way it is! The regular 4 string Fender P bass was created long before the Fender VI... Also the Danelectro Vl first appeared in '58 if I remember correctly ( and was I think the inspiration for Fender's Vl )

There's a bloke on ebay who does scratchplates precisely to your template if req. I can't recall his ebay ID but he's been mentioned many times on BC so easy to find out no doubt. I imagine stripping the body would be a bit of a nightmare tbh, and as you say the wood's probably not that great, and bound to be lots of joins too.

I guess Duane Eddy is the original man for bass 6 although he used a Dannelectro, which was I believe the first 6 string "bass" guitar.

Yes totally.. that's surprising, you'd have thought they'd be thought of as very "old hat" by then, and it was kind of a bit before "retro" became a thing.

A win-win, provided you like purple... I only got the clownburst one as it was a whole 50 quid cheaper when I got mine !.. black would've been my preference, but in real life I actually like the TSB now, plus it's pretty much what the majority of the 60s originals seemed to be.

Well I very much like my Squier version, they wouldn't be for everyone though.... probably a "love them or hate them" type thing.. Give one a try if there's anywhere out your way that stocks 'em

Some have strung these with a lighter set and tuned as a "baritone guitar" too. I've got a Gretsch Vl that's set up like that (A to A)

Bill Haley & the Comets is a bit of an odd one too I'd have thought, for the time....