Westone
'The Rail' bass
Hard Maple neck and body (If you
can call it a body), tuned steel rails join the two body sections.
Rosewood fingerboard, graphite nut, 32.25 inch scale 24 frets.
Magnaflux RB pickup, single volume control. No tone control, changes in
tone are achieved by sliding the pickup along the rails.
(Info from the 1985/86 misc
catalogue and my own Rail bass)
Reviewed
in Guitarist magazine, November 1984, RRP then was £240
Appears in the Jan 1985 US pricelist at $499.50 including gig bag, the
Sept 1985 pricelist shows it as available in 3 colours (Black, red or
white), the August 1986 pricelist shows an increase to $529.50 for the
black version or $565 for red or white. The Rail does not appear in the
April 1987 pricelist
The rails are uncoated steel on black models, red and white ones had black rails.
The Rail used the same custom gigbag as the Quantum
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2006
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