These were from the 80's when Hartley had made the investments to really build nice guitars in Mississippi.
These came in two versions, p/u-wise. The first had those utterly horrible single-coil 'Super Ferrite' pickups also used in Dyna Basses of that era: Combined with that tone circuit, it was just dreadfully thin IF you wanted an open clean sound. Cranked with a bunch of 100hz thru SVT's nobody noticed.
This is with the much better, then-new VFL pickups, no doubt modeled a LOT after AXY's. This particular axe is cheap enough I'd buy it, junk the Peavey vol/tone network and replace with a Bart or EMG vol/tone/3-band replacement (after all, the holes are already there), and have a ball. Well built enough to last a long time. If it's sound body-wise and no issues, that's a lot of bass for $350.
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