It has its own profile, with shorter horns than the usual Precision Bass, and there is a belly contour carved out of the back. It is a 34-inch scale bass, in case you were wondering.Īs I said the body is laminated, and there is a control cavity routed in the back to hold the volume and tone pots. The tuners look like Westone-branded Gotohs, and there is a silkscreened Westone logo on the headstock. It has a rosewood fretboard with simple dot inlays, and the aforementioned 20 frets are pretty hefty wire. The neck is a 3-piece maple laminate with an ash overlay on the headstock, and it attaches to the body with a 4-bolt joint and a Westone Made in Japan-marked plate. But it does not really matter, as this ends up being a smart-looking bass and it is a pretty fine instrument. This is a bolt-neck bass, it only has 20 frets, and it has a P-Bass split coil pickup. This is not a coincidence, as Matsumoku built those Super Basses too! But, there are a few important differences. Not to mention the the 2-on-a-side tuners, and the brass nut and bridge.
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If you look at this Thunder 1, the most obvious thing is that this looks an awful lot like an Aria Pro II Super Bass due to its clear-finished laminated ash, maple and walnut body. Not many of their guitars ere imported to the US, and it seems like most of their products went to the UK. Their products were never a big hit and in 1987 Matsumoku sold the brand to a Korean company, and by 1991 the brand was gone. They built very good instruments, including copies of popular American instruments that caused some legal difficulties.Īfter building instruments for other companies for all of those years, in 1981 they decided to start their own brand and Westone was born.
Matsumoku was a Japanese company that specialized in making guitars for many brands, including Aria, Epiphone, Vox and more. In case you are not up to speed on Westone, here is a quick run-down on the brand. My regular readers know I love vintage Japanese guitars and basses, and today we are looking at another one: a really neat Westone Thunder 1 bass from 1982.
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