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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
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| there are no salvagable parts from it, the neck has the heel broken, the body is smashe top sides and bottom, looks like Freddie the forklift driver did a real good job on this one. |
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glw
Lover of Fine Antigua
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
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glw
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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I thought we'd already linked to that one actually.
Yes, the bolt-on headstock is a bit of a worry. |
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1bassleft
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:17 am Post subject: |
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glw, that Hillbilly URB is brilliant, better (if I may disagree with Lee) than the acoustic.
The URB has a scale of "approx 31 inches" because someone scronked a guitar neck onto the plank and removed a couple of tuners. Trouble is, the frets will have been expecting a scale of about 25 inches. The thing must be totally unplayable, and at a starter of $299. Nice move on only making two of the neck bolts actually going through the body; the rest just in there for decoration. Excellent spot, I'd say. |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:50 am Post subject: |
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| 1bassleft wrote: | glw, that Hillbilly URB is brilliant, better (if I may disagree with Lee) than the acoustic.
The URB has a scale of "approx 31 inches" because someone scronked a guitar neck onto the plank and removed a couple of tuners. Trouble is, the frets will have been expecting a scale of about 25 inches. The thing must be totally unplayable, and at a starter of $299. Nice move on only making two of the neck bolts actually going through the body; the rest just in there for decoration. Excellent spot, I'd say. |
it's fretless, so very much 'playable'.  |
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1bassleft
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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You're right, it is described as fretless so those would be just lines then  . Still wouldn't describe it as "very much playable", though  . What a weird bridge and, of course, it'll sound about as upright as a Jeffrey Archer testimony. |
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lee_UK
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i think those hillbillies should stick to what they know best, rogering poor innocent tourists in woodlands whilst making that horrible squeeling noise,
yeehaw. |
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lee_UK
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1bassleft
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:50 am Post subject: |
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From what I could read (bit confusing, the text), it's just a Musicmaster neck (not, in themselves, particularly valuable) that a body was built around. Going for that Kurbain layout, but with a King Crimson twist on the bizarre graphic.
I think it's gone past its true value, but it might well float a boat or two (or else a couple of bidders think the body's genuine). |
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