October Rage 12-String Basses
2007 October Rage 12-string bass.
October Rage 12-string basses
The October Rage 12-string basses appeared in late 2007. They were all made in Korea and were produced in the transparent blue and transparent green finishes. Long 34'“ scale, neck through body construction with maple fingerboard, and 24 regular frets with two additional half frets due to the curved fingerboard design. The Rage 12’s incorporate a 4-saddle bridge.
Some October Rage 12-string basses are inscribed “Rage 12” on the truss rod cover.
The Rage 12’s suffer the same oversize routs that plague all of October’s 2007 basses.
A Left-Handed Rage Puzzle
A left-handed Rage 12-string bass exists in the transparent green finish. Oddly, the headstock design is clearly intended to be a right-handed bass, both in design and as the company logo is upside down. We do not think this bass was ever intended to be a lefty but was actually supposed to be a right-handed 12-string bass that was strung Inverted.
October Guitars was intending to display their new 12-string bass designs at the NAMM Show in Los Angeles in January of 2008. A single 12-string bass strung Inverted was ordered to accommodate an artist who was scheduled to demonstrate the 12’s at the show. It appears that the Korean builders misinterpreted the intended change of the string arrangement from Standard to Inverted and instead reversed the entire body design to create a lefty while still using a right-handed headstock.
October Guitars did not attend the 2008 NAMM Show.
Rage 12-string bass art from June, 2007.