A 20/20 on the 'bay!

[Dave W]

It's a Schaller bridge with roller saddles. I have them set at 18 mm.

Thanks, I figured you might have it set narrower. The 24 fret neck and the headstock shape make it look even longer and thinner.

[uwe]

That neck is a halved baseball bat, totally at odds with the otherwise modern design. But one of the secrets to the bass' power.

[Basvarken]

A friend of mine in Japan saw that I have a 20/20 and he sent me a pic of this bass he owned a couple of years ago.
It's a Burns bass called Flyte.




Wonder if it'll take us another ten years to decide this is a design classic.   

[Grog]

It looks pretty close to Luna Silver............

[uwe]

A Flyte just like that hung in a music store in Darmstadt (15 km from my home town) for a long time in the seventies. It cost over 2.500 Deutsche Mark at the time, hugely expensive by any standard. I circled it for ages, it was uattainable for a student like me, I had to settle for a Korean JB Ho at one tenth the price. Last time I saw it was with a local Top 40 dance band (in suits) in the late seventies. Man, how I loved that bass. It didn't sound so great in that Top 40 band though.

[Grog]

http://www.vintageguitar.com/1965/burns-flyte/

[Dave W]

I thought of the Flyte design as being influenced by the Flying V.

[gearHed289]

Looks like an 80s Riverhead.

[Highlander]

Headless variant - the Burn's had heads ...

[uwe]

Isn't your new avatar/handle taking things a bit far, Ken, no one is gonna bring up that ole Hellcat incident again here. Or the Ripper blindness. I hate it when small human failings are dug up ...

[Dave W]

The 20/20 and Riverheads came much later than the Flyte.

[uwe]

The 20/20 resemblance is passing and mostly fin-induced, but those Riverheads are way too close for comfort. Someone was very "inspired" here. Reminds me of those guys of the long defunct South Californian Gould bass boutique (not the other, still active Gould bass maker) who always claimed their basses had "nothing to do with the Kubicki design". Yeah, my ass, the Gould Rebel Bass is the green one om the left in the pic below, the Kubicki Factor is the black one on the right. Fine basses by the way, more organic sounding than the Kubickis via their Bartolinis.

[Highlander]

Isn't your new avatar/handle taking things a bit far, Ken, no one is gonna bring up that ole Hellcat incident again here. Or the Ripper blindness. I hate it when small human failings are dug up ...

Nah ... I could have gone for Corsair ...

(hmm ... now there's an idea ...)

(typical - vid not available in UK - but point taken )

[TBird1958]

Isn't your new avatar/handle taking things a bit far, Ken, no one is gonna bring up that ole Hellcat incident again here. Or the Ripper blindness. I hate it when small human failings are dug up ...

I'll be reminding him of that for quite awhile yet!

It's best cold! 

[Highlander]

Claws away, Dear, or I'll let everyone know you've been seen out in men's clothing ...