Heartfield Guitars Forum 2.0

First, thanks for the wonderful site!

I bought a 1991 DR5 bass #J10949 in July via Facebook Marketplace, in excellent condition. I got it from Mark Scott who lives in Cypress, TX. He said he was the original owner and bought it while in college in Louisiana, USA. Color is green burst. Headstock shows "Heartfield DR5."

As far as I can tell, it is all original, but I did change the knobs for a chrome set from Guyker. (I like my hardware and knobs to match.) No loss really, one of the originals was broken anyway. Seems to be a known issue; I donated the two good knobs to a couple of Talkbass members who each had one bad knob and wanted original ones.

One nice thing about the Guyker knobs is they have a line indicator. I've seen people comment that it's a challenge using the filter in live situations because it's hard to return the stock knob to a previous setting. With the line indicator, this is easier to accomplish.

First two pictures are from the original owner, others are mine.

A very nice bass! Welcome to this community.
The colour "Green burst" does not exist. It's probably discoloured "Blue Burst".

Interesting. Well, for whatever reason - it's green now!

Now that you mention it, the seller did advertise it as blue. I though that was strange, since it looked green in the pictures. I just wrote it off to room lighting, camera deficiencies, or whatever.

Whatever the case, I love the color! Not sure I'd have bought it if it was blue, and I would have missed out on an awesome bass.

Regards,
Wayne

Hope you will play it to your heart's content!