Hofner HCT-500/1 Violin Bass CT Cavern LTD, Dark Brown Overview
The best-selling 500/1 Contemporary version of the Hofner Violin Bass Guitar offers those wanting to own one of the World''s iconic guitars the chance to do so at a very attractive price.
Recreating the style of the 1961 version the CV model has close spaced "Cavern" pickups, the Contemporary features a sustain block inside the body to give modern, deep-resonating bass sounds while still retaining the original Hofner Beatles bass sound. With a short scale of 30" and the small violin bass body it is one of greatest electric bass guitars ever made.
- Body Shape Violin Bass
- Wood Top Spruce
- Wood Back Flame Maple
- Wood Sides Flame Maple
- Binding Top Black / White / Black
- Binding Back Black / White / Black
- Binding Sides White
- Centerblock Spruce
- Neck Wood Maple / Beech / Maple
- Construction Three Piece
- Headstock Shape Violin Bass
- Logo and Artwork Script
- Neck Joint Hofner Violin Bass Set Neck
- Joint At 16th Fret
- Thickness Neck FB At 1st Fret 22mm
- Thickness Neck FB Near Heel 24mm
- Heel Cap Pearl
- Fingerboard Wood Rosewood
- Scale 30" / 76cm
- Nut Width 42mm
- Width At 12th Fret 48mm
- Inlays Dots
- Binding White
- Side Dots Yes
- Number Of Frets 22
- Bridge Material Ebony
- Type Hofner Fretted
- Finish Top Sunburst or Black
- Body Sunburst or Black
- Neck Sunburst or Black
- Hardware Tuners Single Nickel
- Tuner Buttons Pearl
- Tailpiece Trapeze Nickel
- Nut Material Plastic
- Pickguard White Pearl
- Pickup Neck Hofner Staple Nickel (Regular and Cavern Models)
- Pickup Middle Hofner Staple Nickel (Cavern Model Only)
- Pickup Bridge Hofner Staple Nickel (Regular Model Only)
- Potentiometer Knobs Black and Silver
- Strings Hofner HCT Roundwound
- Setup Action Bass String at 12th Fret 3mm
- Action Treble String at 12th Fret 2mm
