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12 minutes ago, Roger2611 said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-DEFIL-Mambo-Archtop-Bass-Guitar/332817873822?hash=item4d7d7dbb9e:g:mGwAAOSwhnhbqQ6r

Saw this on the bay today, I have to say I think the aesthetics of the body are gorgeous, if fact it looks great all the way until you get to that headstock which is a total abomination! 

I used to go out with a girl like that... :lol:

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2 hours ago, TheGreek said:

Looks like the neck was replaced at some stage...

Could be a replacement neck, or possibly a badly-remodelled headstock. Take a look at

http://www.defil-vintage.pl/2013/12/nowe-rytmy-w-fabryce-defil.html

Can't leave Defil alone without pointing you at their ... ahem ... 'take' on the gorgeous Hagstrom Futurama:

https://reverb.com/item/40133-defil-lotos-1973-vintage-natural-relict

I get the whole Communist era thing, but nobody ever claimed that the Communists weren't very fine engineers. This monstrosity looks like a failed school word & metalwork project.

 

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