Eastwood Classic 4 bass

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B-Mac said:
I hope you never have to identify someone in a line up. I pity the poor soul.... :roflmao: :smug: :roflmao: :woot:
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Right? I wouldn't say suspiciously similar, but that they are copying -- excuse me, *inspired by* -- the same OG model. That different body shape means an entirely different jig, so they aren't just different brands on the same item (though the neck might be ...).

I am curious, though, to hear how they compare in terms of playing and sound, rather than just looking so similar in photos.
 
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There's a lot that goes unsaid -- even unrealized -- in quality evaluations. I'd be curious to hear from someone who had tried both the Eastwood and the HB.

I suppose I could do it myself, but that would mean buying (and playing) a right-handed HB-60, as they don't offer it in LH. Which isn't my preference.
 
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I've had several Eastwood guitars and basses - still have 2, in fact - but, not a Classic-4 Bass. I'd imagine that they're a typical Eastwood; decent/really good value for the money; but, not a super wonderful instrument. That's been the case with all of mine. The reason I've never considered buying a Classic-4 Bass? I don't need one. I have a left handed '94 Gretsch G6119BO-LH Broadkaster Bass; I really don't think the Classic-4 would be an improvement. That said? I did seriously think about one, when they were first introduced, because the first ones were 34" scale - like a Gretsch White Falcon. Which I would really, really like to own. But, by the time I got around to buying one? I'd waited too long; they had gone to 30" scale. I don't think I've ever seen one of the long scale ones for sale used - especially a left handed one. There can't have been many of them - right or left handed... :cool:
 
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GIBrat51 said:
I've had several Eastwood guitars and basses - still have 2, in fact - but, not a Classic-4 Bass. I'd imagine that they're a typical Eastwood; decent/really good value for the money; but, not a super wonderful instrument. That's been the case with all of mine. The reason I've never considered buying a Classic-4 Bass? I don't need one. I have a left handed '94 Gretsch G6119BO-LH Broadkaster Bass; I really don't think the Classic-4 would be an improvement. That said? I did seriously think about one, when they were first introduced, because the first ones were 34" scale - like a Gretsch White Falcon. Which I would really, really like to own. But, by the time I got around to buying one? I'd waited too long; they had gone to 30" scale. I don't think I've ever seen one of the long scale ones for sale used - especially a left handed one. There can't have been many of them - right or left handed... :cool:
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ah -- the one that got away (sigh). Yep, those happen ... though I might be more inured to that, as a lefty; my experience of the guitar/bass market is constantly "hey wow! cool thing! -- oh, but not for you ... here, maybe we've got an old cheapie in the back corner ... might need new strings ... have you considered learning to play right-handed?"

There's a lot to be said for long-scale vs short. My first bass was a cheap short-scale semi-hollow; when I upgraded to a used Rickenbacker, it was for better quality -- longer scale was just part of the package. I've played long-scale ever since, simply because that's how things came. And for playing fretless, that was definitely a plus.

Getting the Dean acoustic-electric bass (for home practice) was a reminder that short-scale has its own charm. IMO it's just more fun to play, especially for fast runs. So - for me - the Eastwood Classic 4's short-scale is both a nostalgic return and a rational selling point. Plus: finally! a pickup selector switch, which I haven't had since I rent-money-sold the Rick back in 1993. Now THAT's a story of one that got away ...
 
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GIBrat51 said:
I've had several Eastwood guitars and basses - still have 2, in fact - but, not a Classic-4 Bass. I'd imagine that they're a typical Eastwood; decent/really good value for the money; but, not a super wonderful instrument. That's been the case with all of mine. The reason I've never considered buying a Classic-4 Bass? I don't need one. I have a left handed '94 Gretsch G6119BO-LH Broadkaster Bass; I really don't think the Classic-4 would be an improvement. That said? I did seriously think about one, when they were first introduced, because the first ones were 34" scale - like a Gretsch White Falcon. Which I would really, really like to own. But, by the time I got around to buying one? I'd waited too long; they had gone to 30" scale. I don't think I've ever seen one of the long scale ones for sale used - especially a left handed one. There can't have been many of them - right or left handed... :cool:
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34" Classic 4?
 
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B-Mac said:
34" Classic 4?
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure. It was a long time ago, though; about 20 years ago, IIRC... I don't think Eastwood had been around very long at the time. I bought my first Eastwood - a Sidejack Baritone guitar - about that long ago; when the Baritone was the only Sidejack model, in fact. Weird story about that thing, but... story for another time. That long scale Classic-4 was on my short list of basses to buy. But, I was buying a lot of basses at the time, and I was trying to pay off a '95 Alembic Epic and a '94 Gretsch G6119BO Broadkaster, before I bought another bass. When I could? The only Classic-4's on their web page were the 30" ones. Over the years, Eastwood has had a lot of basses and guitars come - and go - pretty quickly. I don't think my "Flying Vee" Bass, for example, was in production for more than 6 months - if that. I don't imagine that a long scale semi-hollow body bass was a big seller back then; and probably wouldn't be a big seller today, either... :cool:
 
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