Westone Spectrum, £50 BIN!

[dyerseve]

Seems like a real bargain:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F303195795632

 

 

[Richard R]

The link wouldn't open 😞

[AndyTravis]

I’d say £50 would be £40 too much. Is that a Jim deacon neck on a west one body? 🤮

[Bassassin]

22 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

I’d say £50 would be £40 too much. Is that a Jim deacon neck on a west one body? 🤮

I think you'd be wrong, considering it's fitted with a Schaller 3D bridge that would be at least £60 new. Westone Thunder 1A body & electronics means it's £100+ worth of parts, even if the neck's junk.

[lemmywinks]

Spotted this as it's local to me so crops up on my 5 mile bass search, noticed the junker neck but not the Schaller bridge. There was a black Westone on my local FB (all original) for £35 not so long ago, don't need any more basses though so left it for someone else. 

[NikNik]

On 02/07/2019 at 23:36, AndyTravis said:

I’d say £50 would be £40 too much. Is that a Jim deacon neck on a west one body? 🤮

LOL, I remember noob guys calling them 'West One' when they first came out.

[AndyTravis]

Haha, hadn’t realised it’d auto corrected to that

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Could that be a DiMarzio Pickup? or are there any other P-bass pickups with hex adjustable poles?

[Bassassin]

14 minutes ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

Could that be a DiMarzio Pickup? or are there any other P-bass pickups with hex adjustable poles?

Likely it's the standard unit - lots of early 80s MIJ stuff (including Westone) had DiM copies with hex poles. Easy way to check is whether the poles are metric or imperial.

There were Schaller hex-pole pickups too - had a dud one in a used bass a few years back.

[prowla]

Unfortunately it would cost me more than that in petrol to go and collect it.

[Stub Mandrel]

On 07/07/2019 at 12:46, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

Could that be a DiMarzio Pickup? or are there any other P-bass pickups with hex adjustable poles?

Look original.

[Rich]

If that was closer to home, I'd have it just for the bridge and the active guts.