Another thrift store find - Crate Bass
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2022 10:36 am
Picked this up for CAD$50 (USD$38) on sale at one of the local thrift stores.
It wasn't working (the reason for it being donated, I think)... the jack was loose and one of the wires had broken off. A 10 minute fix.
There isn't much on the WWW about these. It appears they were made under license by Cort back in the 1990's.
The neck is superb. Flat, straight. Feels just like a P-bass. It has fret-sprout because of the lack of humidity, but that's an easy fix. Over the winter I will dismantle it, clean it, swap the pick-guard (the existing one is yellowed with the yellowing in the shape of some stickers that were on it for 20 years), and replace the flimsy wiring.
It sounds good, and I'm petty sure this will become my beater/practice bass and my massively more expensive Stingray will go back into it's case.
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It wasn't working (the reason for it being donated, I think)... the jack was loose and one of the wires had broken off. A 10 minute fix.
There isn't much on the WWW about these. It appears they were made under license by Cort back in the 1990's.
The neck is superb. Flat, straight. Feels just like a P-bass. It has fret-sprout because of the lack of humidity, but that's an easy fix. Over the winter I will dismantle it, clean it, swap the pick-guard (the existing one is yellowed with the yellowing in the shape of some stickers that were on it for 20 years), and replace the flimsy wiring.
It sounds good, and I'm petty sure this will become my beater/practice bass and my massively more expensive Stingray will go back into it's case.
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