1967 Höfner – President Bass – Hollow Body Electric Bass – ID 5869

HOFNER PRESIDENT BASS GUITAR

Introduced into the Selmer range in 1963 to replace the Hofner Electric Bass Guitar (500/5). The President Bass differed significantly from the earlier bass in that it had the same body as the President Thinline guitar, i.e. a laminated spruce top as opposed to the spruce top of the 500/5, and body dimensions of 16¼" width by 2" depth instead of the 500/5's 17½" width by 2½" depth. Four rotary control electrics were fitted instead of the rectangular consul, and 24 frets as opposed to 22 on the 500/5. Also the triple dot fret markers and fingerboard binding of the President guitar were introduced. A brunette finish only was now offered in the Selmer catalogues, although it would appear that some of the very early examples were finished blonde. The President bass disappeared from the catalogues in about 1967, considerably earlier than its Senator stable-mate.

The Hofner President, and it's one-pickup sibling, the Hofner Senator were two German built bass guitars available to the UK market. The President was distributed by Selmer along with a guitar equivalent, the Hofner President guitar. It was a twin-pickup hollow body four-string bass with venetian cutaway, descended from, though not to be confused with the Hofner 500/5 (333) famously played by Stuart Sutcliffe in the early days of the Beatles.

Dieser Bass stammt vermutlich aus dem Jahr 1967, das Palisander-Griffbrett hat allerdings nur 22 Bünde und nur Single Perloid Dot Inlays und einen Nullbund.
Die Tonabnehmer wurden neu gewickelt. Die schwarze Lackierung ist sehr selten für dieses Modell. Der Zustand ist gut, einige Druckstellen und Kratzer, ansonsten schöne Crackles und natürliche Alterungsspuren, die dem Bass ordentlich Charme verleihen. Die Bünde sind noch gut, haben lediglich leichte Kerben, die man beim Spielen aber nicht merkt.

- Korpuskonstruktion: Hollow Body
- Korpus: Laminated spruce top
- Hals: Ahorn
- Griffbrett: Palisander mit Pearl Dot Inlays
- Griffbrettradius: 9,5"
- Sattelbreite: 42,5 mm
- Breite am 12. Bund: 48,7 mm
- Halsstärke am 1. Bund: 21,7 mm
- Halsstärke am 12. Bund: 26,1 mm
- Bünde: 22 (plus Nullbund)
- Tonabnehmer: 2x "Nova Sonic" Humbucker (rewound) mit breiten Pickup-Rahmen
- Regler: 2x Volume, 2x Tone
- Gewicht: 2441 Gramm