polara
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Hi. Can you send me pics of you fretless V-C? Curious to see your's.
I own a few V-C basses. Have had seven but sold two 8-strings and a fretless that was boogered.
I have a local friend on LI (now a bass dealer/collector) who also has had a good number of them. When I was over there a couple months back he had a one-off V-C Harvey made for a famous player, who recently passed away that was pretty interesting.
jon
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I'll snap a couple shots this weekend. I got it absolutely beat to hell 12 years ago for $575. Had a Badass bridge, a hole in it to ground the bridge, and the guts had been switched to a Bartolini preamp. I sent to to Joe V, and he connected with Harvey C to scare up a NOS bridge, tailpiece, and strap buttons. Cue, Joe's painter, stripped it and repainted it flawlessly, patched the hole and the extra hole where the toggle had been, and even fabricated a new control cavity cover. I still can't find a case to fit it (it's in a Fender case with towels) but it's beautiful and sounds great with tapewounds.
Oddly, even though I guess the refin and non-original electronics make it less "valuable" I kind of like having possibly the last bass they ever collaborated on, and it's a cool story.
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