astro wrote:That bass is fantabulous! Did these come with the old school p-bass bridge ashtray, or is that an add-on? What kind of pickups would have come stock? And what's the scale length?
Very nice score!
1. Ashtray: As far as i know... yes. However, i have seen stock Hi-Flyers with both the '62 P bass ashtrays (like mine) as well as the 50's, "open back", style ashtray.
2. The stock pickups also changed. I forget which came first... but there were two styles. The first, which were on mine (seller included them) are a Humbucker-style pickup. The second style were a "bass P-90". I've heard these, and i'm scrounging around for one. IMHO, they sound terrific. The awesome company, Eastwood (
www.eastwoodguitars.com) have a Hi-Flyer re-issue with bass p-90s. I contacted them asking if their bass P-90s will fit in with my Univox, they didn't know. So, now i'm on talkbass seeing if anyone can measure their Eastwood Hi-Flyer pickups... so, we'll see.
On that note, i've ALLLLLMOST bought one of the Eastwood Hi-Flyers, but i have a preference for maple fingerboards. So, i'm stoked i waited it out for the univox!
3. Scale Length: 30" scale, all the way!!
Some pictures to illustrate things:
This shows both the "50's style ashtray" as well as the "Univox Hi-Flyer Humbuckers" that mine have:
Here is (what i think pre-date the Humbuckers) a Univox Hi-Flyer with the "Bass P-90":
And here is what Eastwood is selling as a re-issue/re-release/re-make (also 30" scale!):
