Electric Guitars by Vintage from John Hornby Skewes

JHS - John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd. Musical Merchandise, Amplification & Pro Audio Equipment Distributors

Vintage®Bass

Bass guitar; exciting, fun, inventive and very cool – the powerhouse of any band.

Get into bass with the best range of bass guitars available to you – the Vintage series. Vintage basses offer superb value thanks to their unmatched level of specification and full-toned performance. Vintage basses use genuine Wilkinson hardware, tuners and pickups for added tone and response and ease of playability.

Vintage bass guitars will get you right where you want to be on bass – in the thick of the musical action.

Vintage®Excellence

V4MRSSB
Sunset Sunburst
£299.00

Vintage ICON V4 Bass Series
Body: Eastern Poplar
Neck: Hard Maple – Bolt On
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale: 34"/864mm
Frets: 20
Neck Inlays: Pearloid Dot
Tuners: Wilkinson® WJBL200
Bridge: Adjustable
Pickups: Wilkinson® PB x 1 (M) WPB
Hardware: Nickel
Controls: 1 x Volume/ 1 x Tone

"My Vintage ICON bass is f***ing incredible.
It feels so natural, like I've been playing it for years!"

John McCoy – Guy McCoy Tormé

VJ96MRJP
Fretless
Distressed Sunset Sunburst
£289.00
LVJ96MRJP
Left Hand Fretless
Distressed Sunset Sunburst
£299.00

Vintage ICON VJ96 Bass
Body: Eastern Poplar
Neck: Hard Maple – Bolt On
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale: 34"/864mm
Frets: Fretless
Neck Inlays: Pearloid Dot
Tuners: Wilkinson® WJBL200
Bridge: Adjustable
Pickups: Wilkinson® JB x 2 (M) WJB00, (B) WJB800
Hardware: Nickel
Controls: 1 x Volume/ 1 x Tone

If you have a taste for something different but at the same time so well known, this is your bass.

Now you can get the true flavour of those famous bass lines from one of the most distinctive jazz rock bass players ever - check the fretless neck with the fret lines and dot markers still visible; no scratchplate but with the screw holes still open, and only the chrome control panel plate left; oooh... that patterned scarring...keep an eye on the weather!

Richard Yale
(The Milk And Honey Band)

‘The VJ96 is great value for money and should be one to check out.’

‘The VJ96 has pre-drilled holes for a scratchplate although one isn’t present – a nice touch, that lends the bass that powerful ‘Jaco’ vibe.’

‘The V4 remains good value for money’
Stuart Clayton – Bass Guitar Magazine

Vintage®V1004ActiveSeries

Body: Mahogany Wings
Top: Maple Quilt
Neck: 5-Ply Thru-Neck - Nato/Maple/Nato/Maple/Nato, Maple/Walnut (DX)
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale: 34"/864mm
Frets: 24
Neck Inlays: Pearloid Dot
Tuners: Wilkinson® WJB150
Bridge: Adjustable/ Raised Tail
Pickups V1004: Wilkinson® Single Coil x 1/ Double Coil x 1 (M) WJBE900 (B) WSME4
Pickups V1005: Wilkinson® Single Coil x 1/ Double Coil x 1 (M) WJBE900 (B) WSME5
Hardware: Gold
Controls: 1 x Volume/ 1 x Balance/ Active Treble/ Active Bass


V1004 Cherry Sunburst Quilted Maple £429.00


V1004DX Figured Poplar Birds-Eye Cap £499.00

V1004SP
Spalted Maple
£519.00

Vintage®V1005ActiveSeries
Body: Mahogany Wings
Top: Maple Quilt
Neck: 5-Ply Thru-Neck – Nato/Maple/Nato/Maple/Nato, Maple/Walnut (DX)
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale: 34"/864mm
Frets: 24
Neck Inlays: Pearloid Dot
Tuners: Wilkinson® WJB150
Bridge: Adjustable/ Raised Tail
Pickups V1004: Wilkinson® Single Coil x 1/ Double Coil x 1 (M) WJBE900 (B) WSME4
Pickups V1005: Wilkinson® Single Coil x 1/ Double Coil x 1 (M) WJBE900 (B) WSME5
Hardware: Gold
Controls: 1 x Volume/ 1 x Balance/ Active Treble/ Active Bass

Rob Butterfield
Chris George Band

V1005
Tiger Eye Quilted Maple
£449.00

V1005SP
Spalted Maple
£539.00

V940B
Bubinga
£329.00

V940FL
Bubinga Fretless
£329.00

V950B
Bubinga 5-string
£349.00

Vintage®V940/V950ActiveSeries
Body: Bubinga
Neck: Maple – Bolt On
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale: 34"/864mm
Frets: 24
Neck Inlays: Pearloid Dot
Tuners: Wilkinson® WJB150
Bridge: Adjustable /Raised Tail
Pickups: Wilkinson® Split Coil x 1/ JZ x 1 (M)WPBE500 (B)WPBE900
Hardware: Black
Controls: 1 x Volume/ 1 x Balance/ Active EQ/ Bass/ Treble

‘...a solidly constructed bass with the advantage of being lighter than other 5-strings (V950).’
Music Mart

‘...I’m also keen on the Vintage because of the bubinga body, satin finish, and great tone.... (V940).’
Bass Guitar magazine

Vintage Bass Guitar

V940 Control Group
Neat and unobtrusive, the four-rotary control
cluster on the Vintage V940/950 Series Bass offers Volume and Balance, with active Bass and Treble EQ controls. Central detentes on the rotary control travel offer a useful‘ neutral’ reference point for EQ and Pickup Balance.

V800BK
Black
Passive
£259.00

Vintage®V800Series
Vintage V800 Passive Bass Series
Body: Laminate
Neck: Maple – Bolt On
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale: 34"/864mm
Frets: 24
Neck Inlays: Pearloid Dot
Tuners: Wilkinson® WJB150
Bridge: Adjustable /Raised Tail
Pickups: Wilkinson® Passive Split Coil x 1/ JZ x 1 (M)WPBE500 (B)WPBE900
Hardware: Black
Controls: 2 x Volume/ 2 x Tone

EST96SSB
Sunburst
£299.00

LEST96SBA
Sunburst L/H
£299.00

EST96BA
Black
£299.00

Vintage®EST96ActiveSeries
Body: Eastern Poplar
Top: Flame Maple (AF)
Neck: Maple – Bolt On
Fingerboard: Maple
Scale: 34”/864mm
Frets: 21
Neck Inlays: Black Dot
Tuners: Wilkinson® WJBL200
Bridge: Adjustable
Pickups: Wilkinson® Humbucker x 1
(B) WSM4 – 4 string
(B) WSM5 – 5 string
Hardware: Chrome
Controls: 3-Band Active EQ
Bass 12dB ± 5kHz / Middle 12dB ± 2kHz / Treble 12dB ± 100Hz 1 x Volume

Geordie

Vintage Bass Guitar

EST96 Pick Up
The substantial-looking Wilkinson® WSM4 bass guitar pickup offers equally substantial bass sounds. Large diameter polepieces arranged in humcancelling double coil format offer the bassist a meaty range of solid bass tones.

Demo by Gav Coulson

EST96NA
Natural
£299.00

EST96AF
Flame Top Brownburst
£319.00

Vintage®EST96ActiveSeries
Body: Eastern Poplar
Top: Flame Maple (AF)
Neck: Maple – Bolt On
Fingerboard: Maple
Scale: 34”/864mm
Frets: 21
Neck Inlays: Black Dot
Tuners: Wilkinson® WJBL200
Bridge: Adjustable
Pickups: Wilkinson® Humbucker x 1
(B) WSM4 – 4 string
(B) WSM5 – 5 string
Hardware: Chrome
Controls: 3-Band Active EQ Bass 12dB ± 5kHz / Middle 12dB ± 2kHz / Treble 12dB ± 100Hz 1 x Volume

Vintage Bass Guitar

EST96 Active
The combination of a chunky Wilkinson® double coil bass pickup and powerful 3-band onboard EQ, controlled by active bass, mid and treble rotaries, takes the sound of the Vintage EST96 active basses from smooth and mellow traditional bass guitar tones all the way to super-funky contemporary grooves.

Vintage®V4Series
Body: Eastern Poplar
Neck: Hard Maple – Bolt On
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale: 34"/864mm
Frets: 20
Neck Inlays: Pearloid Dot
Tuners: Wilkinson® WJBL200
Bridge: Adjustable
Pickups: Wilkinson® PB x 1 (M) WPB
Hardware: Chrome
Controls: 1 x Volume/ 1 x Tone

V4 Pickup
This classic ‘split coil’ pickup design, powered by Alnico V magnets for maximum low end tone, is very much in keeping with the authentic looks and feel of this style of versatile and capable bass guitar.

V4SB
Sunburst
£235.00

V4BK
Boulevard Black
£229.00

V4VW
Vintage White
£229.00

LV4BB
Left Hand
Boulevard Black
£239.00

"Buy one, Borrow one, Steal one, Just get one...
The V4 Bass is AWESOME!!"
Steve Dawson – Oliver/Dawson Saxon


EJM96BK Gloss Black £249.00	EJM96 Sunburst £249.00

Vintage®EJM96Series
Body: Eastern Poplar
Neck: Hard Maple – Bolt On
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale: 34"/864mm
Frets: 20
Neck Inlays: Pearloid Dot
Tuners: Wilkinson® WJBL200
Bridge: Adjustable
Pickups: Wilkinson® PB x 1 (M) WJB00 (B) WJB800
Hardware: Chrome
Controls: 1 x Volume/ 1 x Tone

Jennifer Maidman – Murray Head Band/Joan Armatradin/Boy George

‘Solid as a rock, grunts like a trucker.’
‘The neck is something quite special, being so slender it just seems to dissolve under the hand.’
‘...be prepared for some serious grunt.’
What Guitar Magazine

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