Hi,
BACKSTORY ALERT! …
I have a collection of 4 Hohner B Basses, in different shapes as over the midst’s of time they have been adapted or were parted out etc. Only one is in original condition.
The first one I had brand new back in 1991, it was heavily gigged and abused and as such the neck bowed. I tried to address using the original truss rod but it made not difference. So it became a parts bass were the active pick up set-up, Steinberger bridge and decent tuners were put on other basses and it became a bit of decorative wall art.
GETTING TO THE POINT…
In recent months I have become nostalgic about this bass which I bought when I had little money and poured all my savings at that time into. So I put it back together, mostly. I took off the fretboard and put in a two-way truss rod, and fixed the bowing. The bridge and pickups I kept, but the active control module has been lost in time and I wanted to know if anyone had one in the back of a drawer left over from stripping down a bass?
The same module was used in the B2A series and, as far as I know, the 4,5 and 6 stringed versions of the B Bass. It would be nice to put an original part in rather than a generic one.
One of my B Basses has a Bartolini set up, which is nice, but not as good as the bass which has the original module. At the moment the pick-ups are just wired to a 3 way switch so I can chose bridge/both/neck, and straight to the jack with no volume control and it still sounds amazing!
Thanks in advance.
