Mainly that it’s still intact after all these years! I remember showing it to my bass teacher at the time, who was surprised it hadn’t ended up as firewood and offered me some cash for it there and then. Stock or customized? Give us all the specs!Īs far as I know, it’s all 100% original! It’s had a few bodged repairs over the years though, for example, a dot marker up the dusty end of the fretboard has been replaced by a large screw, the primary function of which seems to be to hold the neck on. None of the electronics worked, and the action was unplayable, so I remember spending the next few days running home from school to work on it.

Not knowing what the bass was, or indeed what it was worth, we agreed between us to trade my treasured copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and all of what little cash I had at the time for it. Straight away I was like, ‘dude you gotta sell me this thing, it’s the coolest bass ever!’ This was at a time when my main bass was a horrible no-name P-copy that had been the best I could afford the previous summer, so the dusty old Egmond had me completely smitten. I was fourteen years old and had been playing bass just under a year when a friend of mine brought it into school to show me, as he knew I played. I'm thinking about doing the same myself, but I'd love to get more info.Steve shares the history of this bass, including some great details on the company behind it.

Mberthold, I m wondering if you ever went through with replacing the original plastic bridge with a rosewood bridge. I frequently keep mine in an open D tuning to play slide. Like others have mentioned this does make a very good slide guitar. I need to get some new mother of pearl inlay dots to replace the two missing ones. The Egmond pickguard is pretty unique, and I'd love to get one with the perfect shape, but I'll consider replacing this with whatever I can find. Unfortunately, I'm missing the pickguard would anyone know where I could get a replacement. I was also happy to find your info on the adjusting screw I was able to effectively lower the action significantly and now the guitar is playing better than since I've ever owned it. I recently replaced my steel strings with nylon strings-this definitely helps with playability. Like you mentioned it has very high action. As you can see, mine has a natural wood colored headstock instead of the painted black one that you have the finish also appears to be slightly different-yours has more of a striped look to it. He told me he got it used for his birthday in 1969 or 1970.

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