My attention has been drawn to a Harley-Benton bass guitar in a local charity shop window.
The neck has the typical H-B four-in-line headstock with the pointy bit at the end where a Fender is rounded.
The body is a P format with no pickguard, rear-mounted controls, set further in from the body edge than normal. This reminds me slightly of an Encore short scale model.
Could this be the discontinued H-B P90 model short scale bass guitar? Did it have a 34" scale equivalent model?
Photographs to follow later this week.
You say, atom bomb. I say, tin of corned beef.
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I wonder if they did an earlier full scale p90 type without pick guard? Can't find any evidence of it.
If the body is definitely HB then it could be a Shorty p90 body with a standard P20/50 neck I guess... weird, either way
TBH, a full-scale neck, grafted onto a small body would be more useful than a complete and original short scale bass. The neck could be transplanted onto a Squier Affinity body that I have stashed away.
If I were to buy a HBP90 bass, I would be thinking to convert it to a tenor guitar.
Maybe it may have value as the basis for a parts bin special.
What colour was it btw?
I listed in on Facebook for five years, lowering the price to £10 and couldn't sell it. A chap wanted a cheap bass for his father-in-law and it was swapped for a pedalboard with crappy pedals (sold them for £50).