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  • #22132
    1bassleft
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    OK, we all see a “get real” auction, so I’m going to set the bar quite high on this one. Can you fulfill all three requirements and give us all a laugh?

    1) Guitar is a well-known plank
    2) Starting bid and/or BIN is frankly barking mad
    3) This is the tie-breaker – a really lame/inventive excuse for the barmy price.

    Perhaps ultra-mods like Mike and Jason will come up with a duff prize if the thread takes off. Here’s my starter:

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7336164763&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

    Starting bid is twice the value, BIN is quadruple the value, and I love this bit of pitch from the seller – “i would think a fender collector would want one of these and now you can”. If I have to, I’ll bring up the crummy Marshall cab “as used by Page and Plant” in reserve.

    They’ve gotta be good’uns, people 🙂

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    • #72480
      Tim
      Participant

      Yeah!

      …that sounded anal

      😀

    • #72497
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Not very long, after I started with the “vomit” but; at the risk of sounding anal, I thought the “ie” was almost clever.

    • #72244
      glw
      Participant

      Blimey, is it nearly a year already?

    • #72268
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]Mike, I hope you include this one in the fast-approaching Hallowe’en candidates list. Not wanting to sound like a crossword-solving, smug bore but I figured “decorative item” would rearrange itself nicely.

      “decorative item” i.e., created vomit[/quote]

      Good use of the unwanted extra ‘I’ and ‘E’ , did you spend long on it?

    • #72258
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Mike, I hope you include this one in the fast-approaching Hallowe’en candidates list. Not wanting to sound like a crossword-solving, smug bore but I figured “decorative item” would rearrange itself nicely.

      “decorative item” i.e., created vomit

    • #72320
      glw
      Participant

      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/zztopcarguitar.jpg

      The seller of this home-made ZZ Top car guitar is asking a staggering 500 Euros for it! (That’s £396 or $708).

      As if that wasn’t bad enough for what looks like a badly made pile of crap, it’s not even a functioning guitar! It’s just a “decorative item”.

      Interesting use of a Telecaster bridge, don’t you think?

    • #72262
      1bassleft
      Participant

      He had three offers (none of them to stick his plank in the appropriate orifice), the highest being $25. True to his word, he has relisted at $88,000
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120282638386

      I’ve never heard of W Starrett and there is nothing on the web. One of those “Hey, this looks old, I can charge a fortune for it!” idiots.

    • #72277
      glw
      Participant

      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/starrett.jpg

      $78,000 !?!?!?!?!?

      “This is a rare piece and I will increase the Buy It Now Price by $10,000 after each listing it does not sell. Please see if you can find this rare guitar–anywhere else.”

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=120278968590&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=002#ebayphotohosting

      What a twat!

    • #72335
      myfoot
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]:lol: , Tim – that’s very good.[/quote]

      D’OH , I just got that! That is pretty clever. kind of wish I’d said it now 😀

    • #72315
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😆 , Tim – that’s very good.

    • #72235
      Tim
      Participant

      [quote=”glw”]

      What does ABNOXIOUS mean?[/quote]

      It’s the smell of sweaty stomach muscles after a particularly long gig

    • #72313
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Have you noticed, this thread is where the angry people hang out. 😈

    • #72283
      glw
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]
      [quote]PERFORMERS IN THE LATE 60’S AND 70’S WERE TAKING THESE AND HAVING THEM SWITCHED BACK INTO GUITAR HEADS BECAUSE OF HOW COOL AND ABNOXIOUS THE HEADS LOOKED.[/quote]
      Bollox. Total bollox. It was cheaper just to buy the guitar heads.

      [/quote]

      What does ABNOXIOUS mean?

    • #72233
      1bassleft
      Participant

      That’s right. One like this:
      #http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/363344428_e535f86343.jpg?v=0

      IIRC, it was well below £800 but I still thought it was a lot of dosh. Rightly, my mate was happy to pay the price and have it shipped.

    • #72246
      myfoot
      Participant

      If that’s not a record it must be close 🙂 … those other PAs have 2 sets of 4 inputs don’t they?

    • #72327
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Congrats, myfoot. A long time ago, I started this thread off looking for not just a ridiculous price but some really gunkcious text justifying it. I think you’ve hit the all-time high. I was about to say, “hang on, mate, even these ugly PA heads can attract serious money” but then I saw the $20k start and $45k BIN. Ahahaha. I got the nice looking Marshall PA, the one that does look like a Superlead at a quick glance, over to my mate in CA for well under $2k not very long ago. What a dreamer.

      [quote]PERFORMERS IN THE LATE 60’S AND 70’S WERE TAKING THESE AND HAVING THEM SWITCHED BACK INTO GUITAR HEADS BECAUSE OF HOW COOL AND ABNOXIOUS THE HEADS LOOKED.[/quote]
      Bollox. Total bollox. It was cheaper just to buy the guitar heads.

      [quote]HE MADE THIS AMP HAVE A MASTER VOLUME AND GAIN AND THIS AMPLIFIER HAS A WORKING EFFECTS LOOP. [/quote]
      Anybody wants to pay over the odds because a valve PA has a “WORKING EFFECTS (echo) LOOP” can buy one off me. And any mathematician knows Marshall Plexi + Master Volume mod = decrease in value, except PAs always have a master vol so I fail to see this “mod”

    • #72328
      myfoot
      Participant
    • #72309
      lee_UK
      Participant

      I wonder what kind of tuning he is using on that single string setup.
      Open ‘D’ ??

    • #72300
      Tim
      Participant

      The size catagory on Ebay suggests it’s actually a 4-quarter size…

    • #72331
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Is it a 3/4 size guitar or just ultra-dinky? Everything added just looks oversized. With the decal applied, I can just imagine everyone saying “Wow, you bought a real Fender?” At the primary school.

    • #72229
      myfoot
      Participant

      😛 Nice find… That pick guard is a work of art .

    • #72291
      glw
      Participant

      Here’s optimistic.

      This guy has taken a guitar that doesn’t look even remotely like a Stratocaster and has given it a makeover with genunine Fender parts and is including a “Fender STRATOCASTER original custom built” decal for the buyer to put on the headstock.

      And he wants 180 quid for it.

      Sure, the Fender parts wouldn’t have come cheap, but stick them on a guitar that LOOKS like a Strat, please! I mean, look at the way he’s trimmed the scratchplate to make it fit.

      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/notastrat02.jpg#http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/notastrat01.jpg

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=330236560428&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=014

    • #72266
      lee_UK
      Participant

      This kind of stuff just angers the blood.

    • #72237
      1bassleft
      Participant

      That Marshall auction is completely Kafka; surely a wind-up from start to finish. I mean, those Valvestates sell for peanuts week in, week out and all that name dropping can’t have swung it. The description is endless bolleaux as well.

      [quote]Vintage, like brand new condition

      Almost never left Hollywood Hills home, except several times[/quote]

      There’s a couple of oxymorons and the moron who put in the offer managed to knock a whole $50 off the BIN. Well done, that chap 🙄

    • #72231
      myfoot
      Participant

      😯 OMFG 😯 Hmmm ,there may be a market for some of my son’s starter amps after all.

    • #72249
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Sold for the asking price.

    • #72273
      myfoot
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.com/Marshall-amp_W0QQitemZ320249618484QQihZ011QQcategoryZ10171QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      [quote]Q: nuts… did jimmy page use this amp ? May-08-08
      A: No, Mikki Moody
      [/quote]

    • #72260
      myfoot
      Participant

      😛 😛

    • #72256
      Tim
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”], Bass will supply the…catchy chants[/quote]

      A! A! A! A! E! E! E! E!….

    • #72294
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Can i hear an angry mob gathering? 😆

      Maybe we should gather by the edge of the village, light our torches, and thrust our pitchforks in to the air whilst storming up the path to his house on top of the hill, kick down his mock georgian cast iron fence bash down his front door and drag him form his bed kicking and screaming, then dump him in his pool along with his multi coated loser of a Strat.
      Shall we say 7.30pm on the path by the church, Bass will supply the banners and catchy chants..

    • #72242
      glw
      Participant

      The headstock is the wrong shape for a Fender too. It should have a rounded inner corner on the underside, not a sharp one.

    • #72271
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Some sort of joke, surely? Apart from the “scalping” there were “six shades of sandpaper” used (I imagine the sandy brown one worked out best) and the “arm is smooth and silky as a baby’s butt” which must make operating the tremelo extremely difficult.

      Awful sanding has taken the forearm and beergut contours way back further than they were, why is the headstock decal now missing and, as alluded, either the body is ash with an extremely thin alder on top (makes no sense) or there are 100 coats of acrylic on the front and back and practically none anywhere else. It smells of “Allparts” to me.

    • #72286
      glw
      Participant

      [quote=”Tim”]100 layers of Acrylic..why is that good?[/quote]

      Waterproofing? It’ll need it if it falls in that swimming pool.

    • #72303
      Tim
      Participant

      They’ve managed to ‘Hand-scalp’ through the veneer into the crappy laminate behind in fact…nice

      But, I can see the point of the higher fret ‘scalping’

      100 layers of Acrylic..why is that good?

    • #72280
      lee_UK
      Participant

      100 coats of acrylic ?? glass like finish?? the photos don’t show that.
      the finish looks real dodgy, is acrylic finish better than nitros?

    • #72254
      glw
      Participant

      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/swimmingpoolstrat.jpg

      It’s not saying this is a bad guitar, just that I think $18,000 is a little steep.

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/customized-fender-electric-6-string-guitar_W0QQitemZ250242075599QQihZ015QQcategoryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Would you leave a guitar supposedly worth that kind of money standing around at the edge of a swimming pool?

    • #72318
      Michael
      Participant

      Lucky there is: Up to £150 buyer protection available on this item with PayPal.

    • #72264
      myfoot
      Participant

      😯 That would definately qualify as THE most optimistic ebayer I’ve seen so far. How the hell you price something like this that far above new price is beyond me.

    • #72224
      1bassleft
      Participant

      This isn’t just “optimistic”; it’s barking mad:

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/amplifier-Kustom_W0QQitemZ300219016791QQihZ020QQcategoryZ10171QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      the seller mentions the new price of £300 in the description 🙄

    • #72250
      myfoot
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”]Something tells me you wanted to see this auction crash and burn… :twisted:[/quote]

      😛 😛 😈 It wasn’t that long ago that other marshall head went for $1425 ( https://www.guitarsite.com/hotlicks/viewtopic.php?t=4076 )It’s almost amazing sometimes what some people try to sell and what some are willing to pay .

    • #72220
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I certainly wouldn’t like to see someone spunk serious money on a so-what DSL wrapped in a ridiculous set of semi-exotic planks and no ventholes. Pointless.

    • #72306
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Something tells me you wanted to see this auction crash and burn… 😈

    • #72298
      myfoot
      Participant

      Up to $405 with 9 hours left…Surprisingly hasn’t hit the reserve yet 😉 Be interesting to see if he relists with a lower BIN or if someone will swoop in at the end and buy it .

    • #72290
      myfoot
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”] Those handles look a bit cheap, and is the Marshall badge on wonky?[/quote]

      Yeah for being meticulous, the marsthall logo isn’t on straight.
      You could buy a dsl and a fancy headbox (without the fancy handles ) for about half of that BIN. Be interesting to see how high it goes..It hasn’t moved off the opening $100 bid yet 😛

    • #72333
      lee_UK
      Participant

      cover it in tolex and it will look like a real one.

      Those handles look a bit cheap, and is the Marshall badge on wonky?

    • #72323
      1bassleft
      Participant

      [quote]And because the amp box is solid hardwood instead of just plywood, the sound of the amp itself is warmer and more acoustically musical to the playing of the guitarist[/quote]

      🙄 . Good find, myfoot.

    • #72252
      myfoot
      Participant

      BIN of $3750

      http://cgi.ebay.com/Marshall-JCM2000-DSL-100-WATT-UNIQUE-SHOWPIECE_W0QQitemZ250236689931QQihZ015QQcategoryZ10171QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      [quote]An ebayer has pointed out to me that there are no “top” vents for vertical heat dissapation. As stated in the listing, this is NOT an everyday player. So one should not expect to have this amp running all the time[/quote]

      #http://i13.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/e9/74/0c3f_3.JPG

    • #72239
      Joe M”geek
      Participant

      Interesting…one thing i DO know about the uk guitar industry in the sixties, is that consistency wasn’t a strong point 😉

      I’ve got two superficially identical fenton weills, one made of mahogany, and comparable to a burns sonic in quality, the other made of ply, and obviously not in the same league.

      Might go for a fretboard replacement on my clubman bass at some point…its similarly ropey. Not rosewood like the super ace- looks like a died softwood 🙄

    • #72226
      glw
      Participant

      It also had such a thin body that there was no space for a jack socket, so it came with a television style co-axial socket! I swapped this out for a locking 5-pin DIN – still weird but at least it was reliable.

      Seriously, the body was plywood. You could clearly see this where the finish had worn away. The fingerboard was in terrible condition and it only took a blunt penknife to remove it permanently. The new fretless fingerboard was a nice piece of ebony, which helped the sustain enormously. I did consider re-fretting it many years later, then decided I couldn’t be bothered and sold it on eBay instead.

    • #72240
      Joe M”geek
      Participant

      For the record Vox Clubmans aren’t made of plywood- not the ones I ‘ve seen anyway, but all three of my uk voxes- clubman bass, shadow/dominator guitar, and super ace guitar, are made of some weird, probably not that well cured, mahogany like wood that dries out and cracks. I’ve had to clamp and reglue bits on all three of them.

      They all sound great. mind!- but do take a lot of tinkering to not feel like crap!

      Oh- and ordinarily, I’d say converting a sixties guitar to fretless is a sick crime, (especially with the rarer headstock variation), but as my super ace has managed to jettison most of the frets of its own accord, I’ll leave it be 😉

    • #72222
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Wheres my rip saw?

    • #72324
      glw
      Participant

      Where is this skip? I like funky junk like that.

    • #72109
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”glw”]I saw a girl wandering down the street in Oxford with one of those recently. I really wanted to ask her where she got it from.

      quote]

      She got it from the skip. 😆

    • #72097
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]Back when I was taking far too long restoring a WEM Rapier lefty bass for my mate Arni, I did let a Vox Clubman (lefty) bass slip past me for just over £60. I think it looked like this:

      #http://www.halkans.com/images3/738vox.jpg

      Plank or not, I kicked myself for not getting such a rare oddity for my cack-handed collecting chum. Can’t have been many about.[/quote]

      The neck would take a whole 30 mins to burn down, the body would take a lot less and generate less heat.
      Consider yourself £60 richer when this one went past the window.

    • #72074
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Off topic, but it’s taken me this long to notice your >1k posts rating, glw. Congrats, and thanks for the quality 🙂

    • #72093
      Tim
      Participant

      Just to rub it in…

    • #72076
      glw
      Participant

      I saw a girl wandering down the street in Oxford with one of those recently. I really wanted to ask her where she got it from.

      Have you seen the reviews for these on Harmony Central? Seems some people really rate the sound.

    • #72095
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Back when I was taking far too long restoring a WEM Rapier lefty bass for my mate Arni, I did let a Vox Clubman (lefty) bass slip past me for just over £60. I think it looked like this:

      #http://www.halkans.com/images3/738vox.jpg

      Plank or not, I kicked myself for not getting such a rare oddity for my cack-handed collecting chum. Can’t have been many about.

    • #72098
      lee_UK
      Participant

      They all look like firewood to me, i look at them, and i look at my log burner and a box of matches, i cant see the appeal in something that looks about as inspiring as Tony Blair with his Strat, is built from wood shavings and old bomb shelter doors, and plays like a donkey.

    • #72073
      glw
      Participant

      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/vox_clubman.jpg
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/60s-VOX-CLUBMAN-made-in-the-UK_W0QQitemZ180165267845QQihZ008QQcategoryZ101558QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      I know the now legendary Music Outlet Shop seem to mark everything up in price, but 450 quid for a Vox Clubman, which was a very basic plyboard-bodied entry-level guitar, is absolutely ridiculous.

      I used to have one of these (although with a different-shaped headstock) and it wasn’t much of a player until I converted it to fretless, and then it was a kind of specialised guitar. I used to play it with EBow. Here are the before and after pics:
      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/voxclubmanII.jpg#http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/voxfretless.jpg

    • #72094
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]
      Rule #1 on eBay. If the syntax reads well but the spelling is atrocious there is a 99% certainty that the seller knows this is a load of poop.[/quote]

      Does that include grammar?? or is that Rule #2 ?? 😆 cos grammer and speling aint not got a lot to do with selling.

    • #72111
      Tim
      Participant

      I once had a ‘My First Electronic Kit’, which had to push coloured wires into little springs…I’m sure those are the very wires!

    • #72091
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Another great spot, myfoot. The auction’s stopped, and I quote:
      [quote]The seller ended this listing early because of an error in the listing[/quote]

      😯 You ain’t kidding, eBay. I don’t know where to start. Look at the descn:
      [quote]THIS AMP IS A JCM 800 LEAD SERIES.THE BACK HAS MK2 MASTER MODEL 100 WATT LEAD.MODEL 2203.THE AMP SEEMS TO BE IN GOOD CONDITION,I HAVE NOT PLUGED IN DUE TO NOT KNOWING MUCH ABOUT THE AMP.THERE ARE A COUPLE OF SPOTS WHERE IT APPEARS TO HAVE HAD SOMETHING THERE AND NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.THEN I BELIEVE IT WOULD PROBLY WORK,THE WIRES ALL SEEM TO BE INTACKED BUT JUST NEED TO BE COMPLETED.THIS AMP HAS A FEW ROUGH SPOTS ON THE EXTEROR,BUT NOTHING THAT WOULD EFFECT THE PERFORMANCE.ALL THE TUBES LOOK GOOD.IF NOTHING ELSE IT HAS ALOT OF GOOD EXSPENSIVE PART IN IT.THIS IS THE REAL DEAL IN AMPS.I WILL TAKE EXTRA CARE IN PACKING THIS AMP TUBES AND ALL,AND IM OPEN TO ANY IDEAS YOU MIGHT HAVE AND ANY QUESTIONS ARE WELCOME.THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK [/quote]

      Rule #1 on eBay. If the syntax reads well but the spelling is atrocious there is a 99% certainty that the seller knows this is a load of poop. It’s a getout clause of the “I don’t know much about amps, sold in good faith” variety. I mean, “pluged in”, “the wires seem to be intacked” etc – I ask you 🙄 I wouldn’t touch this basketcase above $300 even as a project. The seller knows this, too.

    • #72081
      myfoot
      Participant
    • #72069
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Yes, the update is more interesting. Lots of nice Burnies (is that how the plural is spelt?), Grecos and I’d love a SG1000. IIRC, “Orville by Gibson” had US hardware whereas “Orville” had Japanese hardware so he has to be careful in his descns, there.

      Back on the Sunn; now the pics are there I can see it’s the Indian made model, with the bridge HB (mine is the 3xSC). Much nicer than the Chinese (which didn’t have the nice, Fendery neck and headstock). I semi-fancy a HB model but I certainly don’t consider >£90 tolerable. More likely <£60 for me.

    • #72090
      lee_UK
      Participant

      His stuff is OTT on the price, but he has an amazing collection of Japanese guitars, have a look at his other stuff for sale, all overpriced but very nice collection.

    • #72066
      1bassleft
      Participant

      No photo yet, but anyone selling a dinged Sunn Mustang (OK, Fender asked for them to be made but it’s either an Indian or -much worse- Chinese Strat copy) with a BIN of 220 quid (ridiculous 25 quid postage for good measure) and no auction is in dreamland. Rules state that the seller should have some barmy excuse for the price and here it is:

      [quote]This guitar plays amazingly, better than some of my proper Fenders[/quote]

      I have an Indian Sunn (45 quid thank you) and it’s OK for that money but I wonder how come the guy has more than one crappy “proper” Fender 😯

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sunn-mustang-by-Fender-strat_W0QQitemZ120204168953QQihZ002QQcategoryZ33039QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    • #72112
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😆 . I notice the seller has the name “Nut7011”

      I knew there were a few nuts on Fleeb, but I didn’t realize more than 7000 had signed up. Incidentally, Kay’s 70s mock-toaster pups are among the nastiest waste of copper and iron imaginable.

      “kay now known as fender vintage great condtion very old and rare” – 😆 😆 😆 – that truly is “optimistic”

    • #72070
      glw
      Participant

      #http://i7.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/c5/28/a181_1.JPG
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/vintage-electric-guitar-rare-K-later-writen-as-kay_W0QQitemZ170170645195QQihZ007QQcategoryZ106457QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

      Can you believe that Brain-dead of Essex wants at least £300 for this heap of junk!

      And what is THIS all about: “k then known as kay now known as fender vintage great condtion very old and rare

      Bonkers!

    • #72101
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Good point, i hadn’t thought of that. 😕

    • #72096
      Michael
      Participant

      Maybe the fact it has a big blue VOX written on it adds the 900pounds? How many big blue VOXs have you seen?

      … Ask her husband…………..

    • #72105
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Speechless, absolutely f**king speechless, a pile of crap 1970’s transistor Vox AC30, with no proper grill cloth, VOX nicely painted on, very tasteful, and a £900 first bid!! priceless.

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-VOX-AC30-NEW-CELESTION-GREENBACKS-COLLECTORS_W0QQitemZ290174678408QQihZ019QQcategoryZ10171QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    • #72084
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Charged with trying to make a £15 guitar look like a £17.50 Guitar? GUILTY
      Charged with ballsing it up? GUILTY

      #http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7099/46901du6.jpg

    • #72115
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Here here.

    • #72107
      Michael
      Participant

      Anyone who uses a size 600 font on an ebay sale needs a good kickin.

    • #72100
      lee_UK
      Participant

      he has got some front putting it on ebay.

    • #72075
      glw
      Participant

      That is hideous.

    • #72103
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The modification is so subtle you would hardly notice anything has changed, you need to look very close to spot it..

    • #72087
      myfoot
      Participant

      I’m not home at the moment but hopefully this link will work
      #http://i7.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/8e/26/e97d_1.JPG

    • #72114
      glw
      Participant

      I can’t look at those links without my browser crashing. It might be something to do with the ActiveX plug-in. Could someone just post a pic of the guitar so I could see this abomination?

    • #72072
      1bassleft
      Participant

      This ghastly hackeroo (a real contender for the “ugly guitar” thread by a mile) is listed as 10p with free shipping. Sounds reasonable, except for the “reserve not met”:
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USED-SQUIER-STRATOCASTER-LEFTY-LEFT-H-BODY-RIGHT-H-NECK_W0QQitemZ140098159949QQcategoryZ33039QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Because I’ve seen this firewood listed twice before. First as a £15 starter with £25 shipping,
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USED-SQUIER-STRATOCASTER-LEFTY-LEFT-H-BODY-RIGHT-H-NECK_W0QQitemZ140090122513QQcategoryZ33039QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Then as a (bizarrely) £38.38 item with free shipping:
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USED-SQUIER-STRATOCASTER-LEFTY-LEFT-H-BODY-RIGHT-H-NECK_W0QQitemZ140094058499QQcategoryZ33039QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Neither of which attracted a sniff of a bid. I imagine this reserve is some £35+, which begs the question… why don’t some people get the message?

    • #72099
      1bassleft
      Participant

      A very nice bit of Dan Reeves’ work, at the sort of price that’ll buy you a good Hiwatt and leave plenty for something else. This seller has gone for the “it failed to make reserve at £320 so I’ll list it for stupid money” tactic:

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sound-City-One-Hundred_W0QQitemZ260095508177QQcategoryZ10171QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    • #72071
      lee_UK
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260098196559&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNARL:UK:12

      surely this Austrian ebayer has his head in the Alps. i think he has been overdosing on the Hussar.

    • #72113
      glw
      Participant

      Sorry, I meant mine didn’t have the Bigsby (although I doubt it’s a real Bigsby). That would increase the price a little bit, but not by that margin.

    • #72085
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”glw”]Here’s another seller who’s asking far too much for a 70s not-that-accurate copy guitar.

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-ARIA-TELE-MODEL-1582T-70s-COLLECTORS-GUITAR_W0QQitemZ260086426121QQihZ016QQcategoryZ112668QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      I had one of these a few years ago, although with the Bigsby and without the Aria name – otherwise it was identical. I bought it for about £40 and later on sold it to a girl in France for over £100 – she was keen to buy because it was just like a guitar she used to own and love.

      To be fair to it, it was actually quite a nice player.[/quote]

      Sold for £250. good money, i bet the seller is happy.

    • #72089
      Tim
      Participant

      There is an Aria bass I keep being tempted by. 70’s from the Matsumoko Factory, supposedly good. That tele is a top-endy price at the moment though.

    • #72106
      glw
      Participant

      Here’s another seller who’s asking far too much for a 70s not-that-accurate copy guitar.

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-ARIA-TELE-MODEL-1582T-70s-COLLECTORS-GUITAR_W0QQitemZ260086426121QQihZ016QQcategoryZ112668QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      I had one of these a few years ago, although without the Bigsby and without the Aria name – otherwise it was identical. I bought it for about £40 and later on sold it to a girl in France for over £100 – she was keen to buy because it was just like a guitar she used to own and love.

      To be fair to it, it was actually quite a nice player.

    • #72083
      glw
      Participant

      Of course I don’t mind. It was a toss up as to which thread to post it under anyway!

    • #72086
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”glw”]I’ve said before that I’m not a fan of relic-ed guitars, but is this the worst “relic” job ever, or is it just me?

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Telecaster-with-relic-finish-and-Fender-parts-new_W0QQitemZ190080958735QQihZ009QQcategoryZ33039QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      This guy’s idea of creating a “relic” seems to be to set the instrument on fire!

      Amazingly there have been 10 bids on this monstrosity.[/quote]

      Hope you don’t mind glw, but i had to post that tele in the worse finish thread, of course all credited to yourself, we just can’t let this disapear off ebay, we owe it to future generations 😆

    • #72079
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Before the term “relic’d” came about, that Tele would’ve been “seriously damaged in shop fire”, which doesn’t have the same cachet. £81 a ridiculous end price (possibly a newbie windup, though).

      As for the Squier, apart from the ridiculous £220 incl. starter price, what is the guy on about?
      [quote]The Squier Fat Strat guitar features an alder body and bolt-on maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, with three single coil pickups and one humbucking pickup at the bridge position.[/quote]

      Unlike the pics in the auction, which features a maple fingerboard and the standard 3xSC (mustard mitt, a Strat with an extra HB squeezed in would’ve been worth a look. Custom Shop “Tufnel” Strat perhaps):

      #http://i17.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/8b/e7/fe4a_1.JPG

    • #72108
      lee_UK
      Participant
    • #72067
      lee_UK
      Participant

      I had to hold my sides, blow torched up! what a find glw! classic.

    • #72092
      glw
      Participant

      I’ve said before that I’m not a fan of relic-ed guitars, but is this the worst “relic” job ever, or is it just me?

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Telecaster-with-relic-finish-and-Fender-parts-new_W0QQitemZ190080958735QQihZ009QQcategoryZ33039QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      This guy’s idea of creating a “relic” seems to be to set the instrument on fire!

      Amazingly there have been 10 bids on this monstrosity.

    • #72088
      glw
      Participant

      Actually those Brian Eastwood Distortocasters and Collision basses do not some cheap to start with, so his asking price may not be that far off the mark.

      Only trouble is that it’s a heck of a lot of money for someone wanting a cartoon-looking guitar.

      I reckon that seller is Joey Fulco, mentioned here: http://www.brianeastwoodguitars.co.uk/bent.html

    • #72104
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Nice one.. 😆

    • #72080
      myfoot
      Participant

      [quote]Local pickup ok if in Las Vegas but payment must be made before as I will not waste my time with amateur lookers and “wannabees”.[/quote]

      Las Vegas..Now it makes sense ..must be Ed Roman 😛

    • #72068
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]Not even a Bendercaster. Cannot see a single reason why the requested $3200 should be reached. Dream on, seller.[/quote]

      And did you see the $185 to ship it in the US only? $185 !! is it being shipped by Limo? with a champagne breakfast and express check in?
      Damn the seller to hell !! 😆

    • #72082
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Not even a Bendercaster. Cannot see a single reason why the requested $3200 should be reached. Dream on, seller.

    • #72078
      lee_UK
      Participant

      not to my taste but they look like one off’s, 3,200 is wishfull thinking, i bet the reserve is a hell of a lot lower.

    • #72077
      myfoot
      Participant
    • #72102
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Here’s one of my weirdest “optimistic” posts:

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vox-JMI-Powered-Disco_W0QQitemZ250061008246QQihZ015QQcategoryZ10171QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Surprisingly, no bids as the auction draws to a close. A helpful word to the seller then. (1) £1000 is a bit steep even for a treble-boost equipped AC30 or a nice JMI guitar amp. (2) Absolutely no-one at your 15W disco is going to come up and say “never mind the lack of volume, that’s a cracking tone you’re getting out of that Bronski Beat single. Are you using Mullard or Amperex EL84s in that amp?”

    • #72110
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Thats the kind of tat we had to play as youngsters, how can they mention the word ‘Gibson’ and ‘Top of the range’? in the same sentence, there was no top of the range, it was always cheap high action, fret buzzing rubbish.

    • #71987
      1bassleft
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160042493093&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:UK:1

      I’ve mentioned this piece of tat in my “CMI” thread. A complete plank from new, this Satellite has had botched neck surgery in an attempt to make the thing half-playable. The “mahogany substitute” body is almost always plywood on these things, and the excessive use of black on the sunburst is probably to disguise the telltale laminations.

      Much spurious mentioning of “Lawsuit” and “Ibanez” isn’t going to help shift this one at its opening £75 bid price. I predict a no-bid.

    • #72008
      glw
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Guitar-Left-Handed-Pick-Plectrum-Rare_W0QQitemZ320033698510QQihZ011QQcategoryZ33039QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      A rare “left-handed” plectrum for £2.99 🙄 Unbelievably, the guy has 325 positive feedbacks :shock:[/quote]

      Sphinx Svenson, eh? That was the “name” of the lead guitarist of Naz Nomad and the Nightmares, who were alter egos of The Damned back in the 1980s. The guitarist’s real name was Roman Jugg – splendid fellow. He recently released a solo album called “Papa Loco” – great stuff.

      Not that I’m saying the left-handed plectrum seller is him. Most likely a Damned fan.

    • #71974
      glw
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]This one’s so funny – like one of those “our artist has made ten deliberate mistakes” but this time it’s an eBay listing:

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-SUNN-MUSTANG-STRAT-GUITAR-HANK-MARVIN-JAPAN_W0QQitemZ300033703092QQihZ020QQcategoryZ33039QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      All those wanting a Chinese guitar in a Japanese box with “Hank’s Guitar” written in felt-tip (or to quote the seller, a “hand-written signiture (sic)”)with a maple and rosewood “arm” form an orderly queue now 🙄 😆

      Seriously, a lot of these “don’t know much about guitars” so-called “vintage dealers” know exactly what a pile of horse they’re talking. How come this guy counts frets and knows his wood types but calls a neck an arm? So he can avoid furious comeback by saying “good faith”. Only a complete dork would believe this descn, though.[/quote]

      Does he mean the box is made in Japan?

    • #72002
      1bassleft
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Guitar-Left-Handed-Pick-Plectrum-Rare_W0QQitemZ320033698510QQihZ011QQcategoryZ33039QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      A rare “left-handed” plectrum for £2.99 🙄 Unbelievably, the guy has 325 positive feedbacks 😯

    • #71982
      1bassleft
      Participant

      This one’s so funny – like one of those “our artist has made ten deliberate mistakes” but this time it’s an eBay listing:

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-SUNN-MUSTANG-STRAT-GUITAR-HANK-MARVIN-JAPAN_W0QQitemZ300033703092QQihZ020QQcategoryZ33039QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      All those wanting a Chinese guitar in a Japanese box with “Hank’s Guitar” written in felt-tip (or to quote the seller, a “hand-written signiture (sic)”)with a maple and rosewood “arm” form an orderly queue now 🙄 😆

      Seriously, a lot of these “don’t know much about guitars” so-called “vintage dealers” know exactly what a pile of horse they’re talking. How come this guy counts frets and knows his wood types but calls a neck an arm? So he can avoid furious comeback by saying “good faith”. Only a complete dork would believe this descn, though.

    • #72003
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Good one, Rawblues. I’ve seen old Brit stuff selling for ridiculous money considering they weren’t brilliantly made (there’s a reason why Fender and Gibson are still in business).

      Notice this one has what looks like velvet dampers on the bridge except for the treble E string? There must be a horrendous difference in volume and brightness when strummed. Also, does this shop know anything about guitars? Here’s my favourite bit of nonsense from the descn:

      [quote]The two pickups have a nice tone and can be used individually or together, where they have a cancelling effect[/quote]

      Looking at that thing, a pickup-cancelling effect might not be a bad idea 🙄

    • #72004
      mrblanche
      Member

      OK, call me cruel, but I’ve seen better wood finishing in a high-school wood shop.

    • #71967
      Rawblues
      Participant

      This is my personal favourite at the moment…

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-1960s-British-Electric-Guitar-Broadway_W0QQitemZ300028661285QQihZ020QQcategoryZ2384QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      I owned a Broadway in the early 70s and it was a piece of worthless shite. No truss rod, inaccurate fretting hence no possibility of correct intonation or decent action. Only has value for hanging on the wall.

    • #71978
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😆 😆 , I’m surprised Wolly wasn’t a bit shirtier with you. Myself, I’d have demanded you name your choice of weapon and location to meet at dawn.

      The seller has conciously or not misread a pile of gunk from the likes of Harmony Central etc and come up with the most favourable story he could get. Pure fantasy from start to finish.

      Without boring too much, it goes like this. Fender-style headstock and black circular logo = Indian made, whether bridge HB or SC pup. Fender ‘stock and black, rearing horse (a “mustang”) logo = early Chinese. A non-Fender headstock = later Chinese.

      I have an Indian made 3xSC, bought for £46 set up nicely by a guitar teacher. Perfectly adequate for the money and it looks to be made from rough chunks of solid wood (ash?) that makes me think of the later Encore (Indian) guitars. Not worth spending over £50 on.

    • #72006
      lee_UK
      Participant

      this is the e-mail he sent back to me.
      He doesnt even know how to spell his own name, he missed out the ‘W’ 😆

      ‘hi,
      i’m only going by the information i found on the net, where it said some where made in east asia taiwan, india, japan etc. So whats so good about a skunk stripe on strat necks – if thats what its really called? i presonally think it looks crap like a said.
      It’s a decent budget guitar compared to most ones ive played. dont see how im gonna get my fingers burnt, u get what u pay for – £50 doesnt buy much at all in this day and age!
      thanks for your interest any how
      olly’

    • #72009
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Just sent him an e-mail calling him a ‘Cad’ a ‘Bounder’ and a damned ‘Liar’ so i hope you 2 are right cos i know chuff all about Sunn mustangs. 😆

    • #71979
      glw
      Participant

      [quote]… this is the high end version of these guitars that were produced in japan using old fender usa bodies that weren’t good enough to be used for USA strats.[/quote]
      Where on Earth did he get THAT idea from? The body isn’t even the same shape as a genuine Strat.

    • #71999
      1bassleft
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sunn-Mustang-Stratocaster-by-Fender-Mint-vintage-70-80s_W0QQitemZ230030074139QQihZ013QQcategoryZ33039QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      I won’t waste bandwidth on pics of what is an Indian-made licensed Strat copy that is an OK beginner piece for sub-£50 money. I’ll just let you enjoy the listing text:

      [quote]Up for sale is a Sunn Mustang by fender, this is the high end version of these guitars that were produced in japan using old fender usa bodies that weren’t good enough to be used for USA strats. This guitar features the first wave of the authentic Sunn logo thats seen on the legendary sunn amps.

      It’s been well looked after, there are only a few tiny scuffs but only add to its fantastic vintage look that people pay massive amounts for. The neck on this guitar is near perfect, straight and is one colour without that rubbish looking stripe down the back that modern strats have.
      [/quote]

      Better get rid of your Strats with that rubbish looking stripe down the back of the neck, everyone 🙄

    • #72001
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Only in America eh? 😯

    • #71986
      1bassleft
      Participant
    • #71973
      mrblanche
      Member

      Guilty!!!

      And it’s a Buffett song.

    • #72015
      lee_UK
      Participant

      At least he gets his photo seen by 46 people, ‘Its midnight, and i AM famous’ (where have i found that before?)

    • #71989
      1bassleft
      Participant

      [quote]The guitar has three dings/dents on the front which I have tried to photograph[/quote]

      #http://i14.ebayimg.com/03/i/08/41/d8/2d_1.JPG

      I can see two dings; one in a white T-shirt and one with beard and bad hair day, where’s the third ding?

      You get these sellers; ones who think we could give the slightest toss what his band’s called and will buy the guitar hoping we’ll look as cool as him 🙄

    • #71996
      lee_UK
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tokai-Love-Rock-AAAA-Quilt-Maple-Bookmatched-Perfection_W0QQitemZ140026974603QQihZ004QQcategoryZ112670QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Not so much optimism on the price, so far £450 for a jap Tokai is very good, its his sales technique thats a little worrying.
      If i was interested in the guitar i would want to see the a bit more of the Tokai, we have 1 pic of Mr Owner thrashing the living daylights out of it.
      We have pic No2 of the owner again thrashing the living daylights out in front of a shop dummy, and then 2 follow up pics of a close up of the same pickup and bridge. All taken in the dark of course.

    • #71969
      lee_UK
      Participant

      But our mans ‘Cuckoo clock style’ Simms doesnt even look retro, no badge and Looks like a Handy Andy custom shop with solid MDF inlay. 😆

    • #71995
      1bassleft
      Participant

      The bass player for FF used the 4-channel PA100, probably because its big, orange faceplate suited the whacky retro image (see their video guitars) rather than any great suitability as a bass amp. The PA100 used to go unsold under £50 until Franz appeared. Even the more interesting PA200 used to fetch nothing, but they’ve gone beyond what they’re realistically worth now.

    • #71971
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]I saw it, but resisted the “optimistic” because the starting £180 is actually below the inflated prices that AP100s go for now. I sincerely hop this guy means the case was replaced by a wooden one, not the “chassis” as he mentions. A wooden chassis is not something I’d contemplate. I’d also like to know who charged him £220 for a set of Ruby Tubes, so that the shyster can be struck off everyone’s list of amp servicers.

      Lastly, I’m getting a bit tired of this “as used by Bowie’s guitarist” rubbish. As a student of Mick Ronson, you’ll know that he used Marshall Majors. He’s probably seen or heard of the Ziggy live pic. Ronson’s Marshall can be clearly seen. It is Bowie (strangely absent from most people’s “Top Ten Guitarists”) who has plugged his acoustic into an AP100 with a single 4×12″ cab.[/quote]

      And how about the Franz bleeding Ferdinand link 😆 crap!!! things that make you go GGrrrr 1bassleft. 😆

    • #71994
      Michael
      Participant

      lol just saw the £50 fine comment. some people honestly need a kick in the chops.

    • #72012
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I saw it, but resisted the “optimistic” because the starting £180 is actually below the inflated prices that AP100s go for now. I sincerely hop this guy means the case was replaced by a wooden one, not the “chassis” as he mentions. A wooden chassis is not something I’d contemplate. I’d also like to know who charged him £220 for a set of Ruby Tubes, so that the shyster can be struck off everyone’s list of amp servicers.

      Lastly, I’m getting a bit tired of this “as used by Bowie’s guitarist” rubbish. As a student of Mick Ronson, you’ll know that he used Marshall Majors. He’s probably seen or heard of the Ziggy live pic. Ronson’s Marshall can be clearly seen. It is Bowie (strangely absent from most people’s “Top Ten Guitarists”) who has plugged his acoustic into an AP100 with a single 4×12″ cab.

    • #71992
      lee_UK
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220023941081&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:UK:1

      ‘Beautifull vintage wood cased Simms Watts 100watt head’

      OK someone thought it was a good idea to rip all the Tolex off the cabinet, you bought it cheap cos it sounded like a nice amp, but how are you gonna shift it on? Replace the tolex? why should you do that when you
      have the gift of the gab like this bloke.

    • #71968
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I saw that and thought “See you in court”. Probably thinks he’s Judge Dredd but doesn’t even make Judge Judy.

    • #71998
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Have you seen his note:

      ‘Usual stuff:

      This is a legally binding contract you are entering. Failure to complete the transaction will result in the winning bidder being fined the sum of £50 for wasting everyones time and efforts , no excuses.’

      Is a £50 fine usual?
      First time ive heard of it.

    • #71970
      BopsAlot
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]Oh, the BIN price is particularly hilarious. “So if you want a 70s Strat without the high price tag” spunk £550 on a Columbus ❓ ❓ ❓

      😆 😆 :lol:[/quote]

      Um, I think someone has bolted that neck to a Mexican strat. No, wait, why would someone do that to a perfectly good Mexican strat? 😀

    • #71991
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Oh, the BIN price is particularly hilarious. “So if you want a 70s Strat without the high price tag” spunk £550 on a Columbus ❓ ❓ ❓

      😆 😆 😆

    • #71984
      lee_UK
      Participant

      When the sales pitch has more words than the Oxford Dictionary, and the BIN price looks like an Auction number, and then the word ‘Colombus’ and Made in Japan is introduced, and to top it all comparisons with Tokai and JV Squier, you know you are in for an interesting read.

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MIJ-Columbus-Strat-copy-Late-70s-Japan-NO-RESERVE_W0QQitemZ330021582775QQihZ014QQcategoryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    • #72014
      USGold
      Participant

      I can’t access E_BAY UK or US so I am blocked from seeing most of these pics—I did see that slavic PA amp thingy–did that say 333,000 EUROS?-it would have to be made of trintium for that price?

    • #71981
      Tim
      Participant

      Somewhere, I have that exact guitar but in sunburst with a different company sticker on the headstock, I forget the name, but everything is identical…and crap.

    • #72010
      glw
      Participant

      “Up for grabs here is this beautiful classic surf guitar built by Japanese giant, Guyatone, circa 1968 and finished here in a luscious creamy surf yellow that really captures the vibe of that golden age of guitars. […] A truely classic guitar from a truely classic era.

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Surf-Yellow-GUYATONE-Guitar-classic-circa-1968_W0QQitemZ7415615584QQcategoryZ2384QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Crikey! Give me strength.

    • #71983
      1bassleft
      Participant

      According to this quite interesting site, http://www.geocities.com/joelcrowservo/HofnerBass.html, the first of his Hofs was bought in Hamburg and, although the scratchplate and control panel are in the right place, people reckon it had to have been a righty that was (rather expertly, I’d say) converted. Note that the site-writer, in 2004, reckoned that a lefty Hof will cost you $1500.

      I played a (righty) 60s Hof that a friend had. He offered it to me for £250 back in the mid 80s. Sound investment, maybe, but I wasn’t interested. I had a pathological dislike of 30″ scale basses. It’s not particularly comfortable (I don’t get on with Steinbergers either) and, with the usual flatwounds, it’s not a very bassy sounding bass. Even at $1500, that money’s for putting in a case and being a geeky Beatles obsessive. It’s not worth it as a playing instrument.

      If I were in a tribute band I’d just get a Jay Turser lookalike and buy something decent for when I’m not onstage with a moptop.

    • #72000
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1961-HOFNER-CAVERN-BASS-GUITAR-RARE-VINTAGE-BEATLES_W0QQitemZ7401326135QQcategoryZ4713QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      From the listing:
      [quote]it has proved to be an exceptional high dollar investment[/quote]

      😯 Well, yes. I’ll agree with one thing, though. Steve Russell’s Hofner site is as excellent as his Selmer/WEM etc amps site.[/quote]

      I always thought Maccas bass was a right handed turned around, as a bass player how do you rate those Hofners Bass?

    • #71988
      1bassleft
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1961-HOFNER-CAVERN-BASS-GUITAR-RARE-VINTAGE-BEATLES_W0QQitemZ7401326135QQcategoryZ4713QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      From the listing:
      [quote]it has proved to be an exceptional high dollar investment[/quote]

      😯 Well, yes. I’ll agree with one thing, though. Steve Russell’s Hofner site is as excellent as his Selmer/WEM etc amps site.

    • #71993
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Optimistic “Bolha”-er. A Simms-Watts PA head starting at over 300 euros 😆
      http://www.bolha.com/oglas1138272

      I’m no expert, but the language looks Slav – Slovenia or Croatia? Whatever; at that price it’s a load of Balkans.

      EDIT; before I get flamed – I remember Croation is more Latin-based. Probably Slovenian then. Give me some slack before posting a “how very dare you”

    • #72007
      1bassleft
      Participant

      No shortage of Schnapps; judging by the ideas of what constitutes a sensible price. The endlessly-circling Squier Bullet, do those mutilated Gibson hacks still get pedalled by him? The ones that needed an official coroner to confirm as previously a Gibbo?

    • #72005
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]What a dreamer. £350 is about double a highish price for a Dom Bass Mk1, but this is an 80s model and probably less desirable. Still, thanks for the flag, Lee. There isn’t much info for the 80s model Dominators so I’ve asked him for pics and details and will pass them onto Steve Russell’s website.

      Oz[/quote]

      I dont thin ive ever seen a bargain on the uber website, is there a shortage of decent guitars in the Mutterland?

    • #71966
      1bassleft
      Participant

      What a dreamer. £350 is about double a highish price for a Dom Bass Mk1, but this is an 80s model and probably less desirable. Still, thanks for the flag, Lee. There isn’t much info for the 80s model Dominators so I’ve asked him for pics and details and will pass them onto Steve Russell’s website.

      Oz

    • #71976
      lee_UK
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WEM-DOMINATOR-25-MK-II-15-SPEAKER_W0QQitemZ7314920278QQcategoryZ10171QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Deustchlande uber Mutterland?
      it comes from that shop in Germany, got to be worth every Euro.

    • #72011
      1bassleft
      Participant

      We’ve done the unfavoured Simms Watts with fantasy pricing before, but here’s one with the US equivalent of a £900 starting price. Not going to happen.
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Simms-Watts-100-Lead-Guitar-Amp-Plexi-Super-Condition_W0QQitemZ7394639813QQcategoryZ38075QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      I like the description “This Sounds great just like a Marshall and Hiwatt with a Plexi Face” (sic). Perhaps the chap can choose whether it sounds like a Marshall or a Hiwatt (for the record, neither) and work out what tone-shaping characteristics a plexiglass panel has on an amp (none whatsoever, for the record).

    • #71997
      1bassleft
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Original-Marshall-JTM45-possibly-celebrity-owned_W0QQitemZ7394246630QQcategoryZ10171QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      It’s a nice, early JTM45 alright, and people will pay a lot of money for it. So why go for the “I’ve owned it a year but it’s from the 60s so probably Hendrix or Townshend once had it” caca? My favourite bit of the Chinese Whispers he calls evidence is
      [quote]The proprietor of the business contacted Marshall, as he has a good working relationship with the company, and subsequently he stated he’d had a conversation with someone very ‘high up’ who had suggested that – due the serial number and age of the amp – he believed it had been used as a test-bed for Hendrix, and latterly owned by Pete Townsend.(due to the age of the amp it is likely to have been the other way around)[/quote]

      Either way, pretty blimmin’ forward thinking of Marshall if it is a 1963-dated JTM45, two years before The Who’s debut album. What a load of bollox.

    • #71990
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]http://cgi.ebay.com/PRE-CBS-1965-FENDER-PRECISION-JAZZ-BASS-THUMBREST_W0QQitemZ7392227379QQcategoryZ64401QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Of course, the CBS takeover of Fender really ruined the Jazz thumbrest 🙄

      I get heartily sick of these “1963 pickguard screws” auctions anyway but $75 for a thumbrest? It’s possible to buy an SX Jazz for $24 more, whip the plastic thumbrest off it for the ‘classic’ and have the SX for the bathroom when you suddenly get inspiration (or constipation).[/quote]

      Brilliant Bass, keep it up, that one did make me laugh, Pre-CBS thumbrest, like you say, what on earth does that matter? maybe with
      the cutbacks and production efficienty that CBS brought made the screws a little shorter? 😆

    • #71975
      1bassleft
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.com/PRE-CBS-1965-FENDER-PRECISION-JAZZ-BASS-THUMBREST_W0QQitemZ7392227379QQcategoryZ64401QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Of course, the CBS takeover of Fender really ruined the Jazz thumbrest 🙄

      I get heartily sick of these “1963 pickguard screws” auctions anyway but $75 for a thumbrest? It’s possible to buy an SX Jazz for $24 more, whip the plastic thumbrest off it for the ‘classic’ and have the SX for the bathroom when you suddenly get inspiration (or constipation).

    • #72013
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I’ve gone off buying an amp purely for the glassware inside (certainly at £200 up). I picked up a Selmer 100W for £70 because I could see a quad of Mull xf2s (more valuable than the C’bros xf4s) but the heavy dust was blown off to reveal four Mulls with a lifespan of weeks, maybe a month. Worse, the supposed 2xGZ34 rectumfriers (according to the Selmer website and a ’68 Selmer catalogue) weren’t there either. SS rectification, so that was another £50+ of glassware gone.

      Plus points are five very good condition ’67 Blackburn Mullard ECC83s, Drake mains transformer and Partridge OPT and choke. Oh, and it’s very good and loud. Quite Hiwatt sounding. Too good to chop for parts, but ugly.

      That “Mitten in Deutshland” Music-Outlet-Shop guy cracks me up. He must shop at “mingaxe R us” then double it for resale. That Bronco he wants over 500 for… 😆

    • #71985
      lee_UK
      Participant

      I was taking the wotsits, but im sure they are Mullards, surely worth asking him? maybe its the same guy who runs the German OUTLET shop on ebay, every one of his guitars is a sorry looking throwback that he thinks is worth 4 times more than it actualy is.
      He must be the pied piper of hamburg, all the crap ends up there, and why does he always take a picture of the guitars arse with headstock fading away? maybe its the way they come in on the conveyor belt. 😆

    • #71972
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I feel my urine being extracted, but yes – Partridge transformers. The EL34s may be xf4s – difficult to tell from that distance. No bids first time round and so far going for the double.

    • #71980
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]What do you do if your not-partic desirable amp drags its sorry buttocks through the Fleeb starting at £150 but ends with no bids at all? That’s right; relist it with a start of £195 and a BIN of £250 🙄

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Carlsbro-100TC-100w-Valve-Amplifier-Vintage_W0QQitemZ7387596092QQcategoryZ58719QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Some people like paying listing fees for nothing.[/quote]#

      Are they Mullard El34’s i can see in there? and is that a partridge output transformer too? and is that ‘Real’ 3/4 inc plywood cab? and… and white tolex!! wheres my chequebook?

    • #71977
      1bassleft
      Participant

      What do you do if your not-partic desirable amp drags its sorry buttocks through the Fleeb starting at £150 but ends with no bids at all? That’s right; relist it with a start of £195 and a BIN of £250 🙄

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Carlsbro-100TC-100w-Valve-Amplifier-Vintage_W0QQitemZ7387596092QQcategoryZ58719QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Some people like paying listing fees for nothing.

    • #71823
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Not that I care, but
      [quote]small silver label to the reverse of the headstock reading: Reinforced Adjustable Neck – Made in Taiwan[/quote]
      in the descn for the first auction would bother me. I thought that Teiscos (in fact all Japanese guitars) were still completely domestically built in 1969. It dates the guitar to much later in the 70s but I’ve often seen blatantly 70s guitars and amps listed as the much more desirable (and lucrative) “sixties” gear.

    • #71826
      glw
      Participant
    • #71809
      lee_UK
      Participant

      and its a bloody big biscuit too, its the wagon wheel of biscuits, THE DADDY!

    • #71832
      glw
      Participant

      Blimey. I reckon that one takes the biscuit.

    • #71863
      1bassleft
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FRESHER-Firebird-VII-orig-1976-CASE-2-PU-Gibson_W0QQitemZ7374339562QQcategoryZ2384QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      I had to look at this one, as I couldn’t believe a Fresher (not particularly good, 70s Japanese copies) was starting at 1,000 euros, with a BIN of 1,300. Yes, a Fresher it is and that comedy Bacofoil scratchplate just adds to it. Then I read (my German’s not great) of the repair to the neck. Scroll down and look at the pics, it had once been decapitated 😯 I don’t rate the ‘professional’ repair job, certainly not the lacquering. Is he seriously saying the repair bill was 1,200 euros?

      It reminds me of people who buy a one grand car then splash 20k turning it into an unconvincing piece of eyeache.

    • #71859
      glw
      Participant

      Ah, so you were paraphrasing. I’ll let you off in that case.

    • #71850
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😆 , I don’t want to do the “I knew that” thing 🙂 , but I thought “Rip it out” fitted the auction-pull better. “Rip it UP” is not something I would try on a London City, except in the literal sense. With a chainsaw 😆

    • #71817
      glw
      Participant

      Except it was “Rip it UP”.

      Don’t you hate a know-it-all?

    • #71829
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Or a web-search turned up unfavourable comments 😆 . In those circs, he’ll make like Orange Juice; “Rip it out and start again…”

      Showing my ’80s pub-quiz-winning credentials, here 🙂

    • #71830
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Loks like he sold it privately, maybe Franz Ferdinand offered him a free CD and a Jam Donut for it.

    • #71867
      1bassleft
      Participant

      This one falls under the “It’s British! It’s a valve amp! It must be good! Stick a ridiculous BIN price!” category:
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/London-City-Vintage-Valve-Amp-Marshall-JTM-design_W0QQitemZ7372846533QQcategoryZ10171QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      No, it’s a London City. It’s a hideous amp even when it’s not that vile turquoise colour. I don’t think the seller has put up the links (schematic heaven, IIRC) to the unreliability and shoddy components of this short-lived brand. Just look at those transformers. Now, £495 gets you some genuinely nice stuff but if you want to spunk it on a London City, be their guest. As the Kaiser Chiefs don’t say “I predict a no-bid”

    • #71824
      1bassleft
      Participant

      It passed, sans bid. Quel surprise. Someone correct my lousy French. Nobody bid on this “bargain”, in plain English 😆

    • #71845
      lee_UK
      Participant

      it’s a left handed 5-string cort bass, with free ritter bag, i love it when they say free, someone will bid an extra fiver for the auction cos the gig bag comes with it, so its not free, is it?

    • #71857
      glw
      Participant

      What is it? All I get is “The page cannot be displayed”.

    • #71854
      1bassleft
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7366912733&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:UK:12

      I bought one of these (a lefty) as a backup. I was the sole bidder at £100. Surprisingly, no-one’s come in with an opening bid of £300 for this thing 🙄

    • #71846
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]More Mustang nonsense, I’m afraid. This could appear in “worst finish” or “Barking ‘Bay description” but I’ll go for this thread instead. It’s worth clicking:

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/One-of-a-kind-Fender-Mustang_W0QQitemZ7366918589QQcategoryZ33039QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      It’s a ’72 Mustang (yawn) with Duncan pups (snore) that’s been refinished (deep coma). Wake up! It’s been “HAND PAINTED BY KURT COBAIN’S FORMER ART TEACHER!”

      Robert Hunter taught KC art for a year in “never heard of it” Aberdeen, Washington State in ’83-84. Ten years later, the guy suddenly realized he taught a “major talent”. Hunter has a history of trying to flog dusty homework of St Kurt, only to be stopped by legal eagles working for the Kobain estate.

      Now it looks like he’s started spraying cheap Mustangs and selling them. IMHO, it looks exactly like the work of an “art teacher with a Masters”, working at an art college. Nothing like a talented artist, in other words.

      I don’t idolize the Kurt; but it is a bit smelly to watch some nomark try to skin gravy off his back.[/quote]

      4 days to go and nobodys bid, maybe its not such a mad world after all.

    • #71835
      glw
      Participant

      I quite like it actually. Reminds me of the “bowling ball” Strats.

    • #71841
      1bassleft
      Participant

      More Mustang nonsense, I’m afraid. This could appear in “worst finish” or “Barking ‘Bay description” but I’ll go for this thread instead. It’s worth clicking:

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/One-of-a-kind-Fender-Mustang_W0QQitemZ7366918589QQcategoryZ33039QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      It’s a ’72 Mustang (yawn) with Duncan pups (snore) that’s been refinished (deep coma). Wake up! It’s been “HAND PAINTED BY KURT COBAIN’S FORMER ART TEACHER!”

      Robert Hunter taught KC art for a year in “never heard of it” Aberdeen, Washington State in ’83-84. Ten years later, the guy suddenly realized he taught a “major talent”. Hunter has a history of trying to flog dusty homework of St Kurt, only to be stopped by legal eagles working for the Kobain estate.

      Now it looks like he’s started spraying cheap Mustangs and selling them. IMHO, it looks exactly like the work of an “art teacher with a Masters”, working at an art college. Nothing like a talented artist, in other words.

      I don’t idolize the Kurt; but it is a bit smelly to watch some nomark try to skin gravy off his back.

    • #71837
      glw
      Participant

      Come again?

    • #71852
      hankster669
      Participant

      Crucianelli Guitars i have a elli 12 have any takers

    • #71865
      glw
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Genuine-1990-Phil-Collins-Fender-Stratocaster-Guitar_W0QQitemZ7363637086QQcategoryZ33039QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
      dont veiw this one if you have just eaten.[/quote]

      Weird. Why didn’t they give him a left-handed guitar? Is it any wonder it’s ended up on ebay? (Yes, I’m ashamed to admit that I know that the Collins menace plays guitar left-handed).

    • #71811
      1bassleft
      Participant

      While I look for bits on my Fender Mustang bass, I came across this “Sunn” gem, made in China:
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sunn-Mustang-Guitar-Fine-Buy-Signed-By-Mick-Jagger_W0QQitemZ7365110615QQcategoryZ10171QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
      It’s sponsored by Mastercard. “Cost of guitar, £50. Cost of black marker pen, £1.50. Opening Fleeb bid? Priceless.”

    • #71864
      1bassleft
      Participant

      OK, opening bid is only $25, but…
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-NOS-Fender-Mustang-Bullet-PICKUP-With-Cover_W0QQitemZ7365680251QQcategoryZ118989QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
      This is your chance to buy half a pup, with no wiring, from a Squier Bullet bass. Perfect for the two-string bass (see “worst guitar” thread for possible uses) and, as the seller mentions in “shouty” uppercase, it’s “BRAND NEW”, “NOS”, “WITH the cover”.

      With the other half, and the rest of the guitar, a $25 opener makes some sense. To paraphrase Kaiser Chiefs, “I predict a no-bid”

    • #71860
      1bassleft
      Participant

      That’s heavy irony, Lee 🙂

    • #71866
      lee_UK
      Participant

      ‘Legendary’?? are you sure?

    • #71868
      1bassleft
      Participant

      No comment on the PhilCo guitar. The S-W cab hasn’t got a hope of making that money. Mick Ronson used a Marshall Major and Marshall cabs (there’s some Australian site with the actual amp, and pics) and Bowie used a Simms-Watts AP100 and single 4×12″ for his acoustic guitar.

      Hardly a good reason for spunking £200 on a cab, is it? Same type as used for Bowie’s legendary, live acoustic guitar?

    • #71803
      Michael
      Participant

      The picture makes it look short, stubby and rather fat… much like Phil. Still you think it’s too much?

    • #71851
      lee_UK
      Participant
    • #71836
      lee_UK
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7363521328&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:UK:1

      what exactly is he trying to sell here? a picture of Bowie and Mick Ronson?
      good photo though, cant wait to see the details.

    • #71844
      lee_UK
      Participant

      no chance.

    • #71842
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I’ve just had to heavily edit this posting about this auction:
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-TOKAI-HONDO-Fame-Mastercaster-Japan-like-Fender_W0QQitemZ7362226037QQcategoryZ112670QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Much to my amazement, it turns out that some Hondos were not made in Korea, but by Tokai at Kasuga 😯 😯 😯 .

      All I can say is I have a Hondo Fame bass, Grover tuners, deedah deedah and it is utter rubbish. Still, now Lee will have to stop making silly comments about me having bought one in my yoof. Hey Lee, you’ve developed a taste for Fender Japan – any chance of branching into Hondoes? 😯 😆

    • #71821
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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).

    • #71847
      lee_UK
      Participant
    • #71853
      lee_UK
      Participant

      i think those hillbillies should stick to what they know best, rogering poor innocent tourists in woodlands whilst making that horrible squeeling noise,
      yeehaw.

    • #71840
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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.

    • #71849
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]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.[/quote]

      it’s fretless, so very much ‘playable’. 😆

    • #71838
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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.

    • #71805
      glw
      Participant

      I thought we’d already linked to that one actually.

      Yes, the bolt-on headstock is a bit of a worry.

    • #71815
      lee_UK
      Participant

      glw, you missed the best one:
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7360203913&ssPageName=MERC_VI_RSCC_Pr4_PcY_BID_Stores_IT

      check out the 2 screws holding on the headstock to the neck.

    • #71843
      glw
      Participant
    • #71848
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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.

    • #71856
      1bassleft
      Participant

      That acoustic with “light frontal damage” as the salvage-repair boys say, you know my favourite quote from the auction?

      when you decide to repair a guitar like this it must be done in stages over a week or so,you can’t do it all at once

      A week or so, eh? Thanks for pointing out it might not be fixed up in a day. “Here’s one I prepared earlier”

    • #71819
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Already did it, no reply yet.

    • #71813
      glw
      Participant

      Who’s going to “Ask seller a question” and query the exorbitant price?

    • #71862
      italos
      Participant

      The guy must have typed it wrong or something…..

      “You are bidding on a brand new squier fender guitar i got it as a gift and i just dont have the time to play it.It is black and white with wham bar and strap
      Bid goes over £160 P&P is free
      e-mail with any questions”

      It can’t really be that much, even if he’s a total retard 😯

    • #71839
      Michael
      Participant

      You must be missing something, surely. £10,000.00 Buy Now ???

      edit: Maybe ask him who gave it to him as a gift, it can be the only explanation.

    • #71807
      lee_UK
      Participant
    • #71858
      lee_UK
      Participant
    • #71855
      lee_UK
      Participant

      take one crapo quality guitar, 1 can of silver car spray, and 1 bored idiot and things start to happen..

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MYSTERY-Silver-Electric-Guitar-PROJECT-Buy-It-Now-40_W0QQitemZ7359546593QQcategoryZ2384QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    • #71861
      lee_UK
      Participant

      seller on this says ‘make unknown’ can anybody help him out? he’s obviously looked all over it for clues to its manufacturer..

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Old-Union-Jack-Electric-Guitar-PROJECT-Buy-It-Now-40_W0QQitemZ7359545777QQcategoryZ2384QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    • #76005
      lee_UK
      Participant

      do you think the inclusion of a ‘free tube of glue’ will help shift this one?

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Acoustic-Guitar-Project-Transit-Damaged_W0QQitemZ7358878867QQcategoryZ42455QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    • #71714
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The cirtificate of authenticity picture is upside down and blurred and incomprehensible, a bit like Ringo, why do these celebs sign those guitars? they must know that they get listed on ebay faster than a Ringo Starr drum roll..

    • #76007
      1bassleft
      Participant

      The seller suggests we should know what it is. I know; it’s a cruddy little Jay Turser stuck under the noses of Paul and Ringo with a marker pen proferred:
      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jay-Turser_W0QQitemZ7358200438QQcategoryZ64403QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      What I’d like to know is… where does the $3000 price tag come from? Magical Mystery Tosser.

    • #75999
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I remember somebody called Abi in a video I saw on the ‘net. You’re right, Lee. The in-bred doofus was a four-stringer 😳 . The guitar player suffered no more than a quick bullet in the film. Not for him the “shoor got a purty mouth. Wanna hear ya squeal like a pig. Oink, oink, oink” treatment.

      Typical; six-stringers get the best roles. Banjo and bass players in the movies are about as likely to live as the “security” bloke in a red shirt in a “Star Trek” episode.

    • #71740
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The Half Breed dimwitted brother of Abi normal (who remebers the Gene Wilder film that came from?) could, like all his peers only manage a 4 or 5 string instrument, i think you’ll find he played Banjo, only the true intelligent humans (in this case the guy who couldnt see he was going to get shagged up the khyber pass) can manage a 6 string.. 😆

    • #71701
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Certainly does. Definitely from “Deliverance” but remind me, would they be the banjo player’s or the guitarist’s? Can’t remember which one was the inbred half-wit 😆

    • #76012
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Don’t know about a pair of nuts, it looks more like a set of dentures..

    • #71673
      1bassleft
      Participant

      After a couple of decades playing, I have worked out that you six-stringers have the average bass player (and I’m a distinctly average bass player) by the short-and-curlies.

      Still, I’m shocked at how low we’re prepared to go. What price our crown jewels? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-bass-guitar-nuts_W0QQitemZ7357869634QQcategoryZ4713QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      A bass guitarist’s pair of nuts with a “buy it now” price of £4. My eyes are watering, and it barely pays for a bottle of decent wine to numb the pain…

    • #76000
      1bassleft
      Participant

      OK, so $1500 gets you a good, ’69 Mustang with competition stripes. Even on mad, British prices; expect to pay no more than £1000. What price this one?
      #http://i19.ebayimg.com/03/i/05/17/13/56_12_sb.JPG

      Well, a starting price of 3500 euros (£2400) is the joke here http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-MUSTANG-anno-1969_W0QQitemZ7355782493QQcategoryZ33039QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      For those of you not conversant in Italian, our chum is saying “This guitar is in flawless condition, except for that cool vintage vibe of having been rested unplayed on a guitar stand for 30 years. Impress your friends with your seeming inability to raise your buttocks from an armchair, lift the damn thing up and play it once in a while”

    • #75993
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I saw that bass a while back. Didn’t know whether it went in “worst finish” or “worst guitar” thread – should’ve thought of this thread 😳 . If anyone remembers those 1970s parquet floor blocks (my parents bought into them. The lounge had an evil epoxy smell for weeks, then the floor lifted up like a series of tiny, Scandinavian log cabins), I suppose this bass finally made use of alll the unsold leftovers.

      As for that acoustic, I had a look through the seller’s f/b to see what was originally paid for it. No joy there, but I had a right laugh at what gets the guy’s wallet open. A genuine example of Weird Al’s eBay Song; http://www.anysonglyrics.com/lyrics/w/weirdal/ebay.htm, which you must click on if you haven’t seen the lyrics. I also would love to know where he gets his £18 guitar strings from 😯

    • #75789
      glw
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CUSTOMISED-VINTAGE-70s-GUITAR-WITH-COOL-GIBSON-STRAP_W0QQitemZ7354770214QQcategoryZ2385QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      is he selling the guitar or the stickers?? have a read of the ‘garb'[/quote]

      Oh dear oh dear oh dear!

      Have you seen the fingerboard on that one? It’s a bit of crap wood painted black.

      As for the stickers – the RADIOARSE one in particular makes me want to smash that guitar.

    • #75880
      lee_UK
      Participant
    • #71692
      lee_UK
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/M-DIXON-HAND-MADE-BASS-GUITAR_W0QQitemZ7353443848QQcategoryZ4713QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      ‘I swept up all the crap from the woodshop, got a tin of Evostick wood glue, threw it in , mashed them up into a log shape, and cut this beauty out of it, and im hoping for £300’

      Some people..

    • #75838
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Nothing wrong with a 1936 cab until somebody sticks a “BIN” of £550 on it because it’s got Page/Plant stencilled on the side. I was frankly perturbed by the Superbass head opening wallets all over the world because of the “JHE” stencil, but a Page/Plant 1936 as used by the hurdy-gurdy player’s roadtech?

      Another funny on that £21 cab in red; the update “actually, the other speaker is an H-H, not EV as previously stated…” has a slight effect on the bidding, that late erratum.

      Finally, if prisoners have suddenly taken up old-‘phone carving instead of making chesspieces from soapstone and alabaster, I wish they’d look at some library pics. “Shall we call it a Strat? Yeah, Strat… That’s a guitar isn’t it?” 🙂

    • #75826
      lee_UK
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CUSTOM-BUILT-Fender-Strat-Guitar-Phone-WORKING-COLLECT_W0QQitemZ7353632443QQcategoryZ38079QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      looks more like an accoustic of some sort than a Strat, then ‘local pickup’ is $5 !! , a curly black telephone cord would have looked better than the bright white one he has fitted, do you think it comes with a warranty?

    • #71704
      lee_UK
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Custom-Built-2×12-Guitar-Cab-in-wine-red_W0QQitemZ7353810517QQcategoryZ23794QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      not a lot wrong with this item, if you like win red 2×12 guitar cabs, but it’s the line at the end that caught my eye.

      ‘I have a second matching cab that I would be willing to sell if this item proves popular’.

      what he’s trying to say here is:
      Ive got my Jigsaw and Nail gun ready if this one should hit the £200 mark.

    • #71731
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1968-Fender-Competition-Mustang-Bass_W0QQitemZ7354560108QQcategoryZ4713QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      A Mustang bass, with (providence unknown) Precision p’up. Look how the pole pieces fall nowhere near the strings. De-fretted, in the most professional job that this 3-rated seller has ever seen 🙄 Finally a piece of beer-mat under the “A” string at the nut. Starting price of £300 and reserve not met? Why not? :shock:[/quote]

      What a great find, im still laughing now, beer mat under the A string, Electronics have the tendency to ‘Hum’ ? nut height causing buzzing? this is usualy down to the string buzzing against the frets, but it has none! it must be the lowest cut nut in the history of ‘Nut cutting’ and you would have to be a nutter to even think about bidding, im watching this one cloely, well done Bass.
      And what constitutes a ‘Major scratch or Ding’ ? this thing would be pulled off the Fender Relicing production line for ‘having gone too far’. It’s scrached and dinged to buggery, i suppose a major scratch actualy goes through the body and comes out the other side. Classic.

    • #75803
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]:

      Incidentally, I can’t be bothered to flag it up, but there’s a right POS circling the Fleeb. A Marshall 1936 ( the so what 2×12 cab)?[/quote]

      Not so ‘so what’ if you take out the GT-75’s and replace them with a G12m Greenback and a Vintage 30, then it becomes ‘Stratospheric’.
      You have to stand up for Marshall or they will end up scooting off to China along with everything else in the world.

    • #71719
      glw
      Participant

      Oh dear. I’ve always been a firm believer that if you want fretless it’s got to be longscale. What’s the point of a fretless shortscale bass? It’ll just go THUD.

      Mind, having said that, many people think a fretless should have flatwound strings. Why oh why? Absolutely pointless.

    • #75848
      1bassleft
      Participant

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1968-Fender-Competition-Mustang-Bass_W0QQitemZ7354560108QQcategoryZ4713QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      A Mustang bass, with (providence unknown) Precision p’up. Look how the pole pieces fall nowhere near the strings. De-fretted, in the most professional job that this 3-rated seller has ever seen 🙄 Finally a piece of beer-mat under the “A” string at the nut. Starting price of £300 and reserve not met? Why not? 😯

    • #71724
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I love this one. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Weber-Bias-Tool-for-HIRE-DIY-amp-bias-6L6-El34-KT66_W0QQitemZ7352633095QQcategoryZ10171QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      The guy buys a cheapie for £50 (it’s basically an octal socket, a 1ohm resistor and a pair of banana plugs) for £50 and will let you borrow it for a fortnight. Cost to you – £10 + postage. Ahaahaaha, yeah right. He at least has the decency to point one thing out. If you’re stupid enough to take up this offer, you’re probably stupid enough to frazzle yourself mucking about inside a 450V DC valve amp that’s plugged in and running.

      Just say ‘no’ to death-it-yourself and pay for a tech or read up and buy decent tools for the job.

    • #71711
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Is it just me, or does this one o’mill scratchplate copy seem overpriced, given they’ve just rubbed an old teabag over it?

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1960s-Pre-CBS-GREEN-GUARD-Reproducton-RELIC-WoW_W0QQitemZ7352231928QQcategoryZ47069QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    • #71729
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😆 , Lee. And, being fluent in roadiespeak, I can translate:
      “It was offered to me as I used to work for the band and was in the right place at the right time with the right money.” = I pinched it when my short-term contract ran out.

      Incidentally, I can’t be bothered to flag it up, but there’s a right POS circling the Fleeb. A Marshall 1936 ( the so what 2×12 cab) “AS USED ON TOUR BY PAGE AND PLANT”. It has a BIN of £550. I wonder why this ordinary piece of rubbish (as used by the third string Mongolian nose-flute player for three seconds of “Kashmir”) hasn’t been snapped up. Are we not born every minute?

    • #71698
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Heres one i spotted earlier, as owned by one of the biggest selling bands in the world..EVER.. and that on its own should help sell this little beauty.. 😆

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Haagstrom-bass-guitar-owned-by-THERAPY-RARE-Unique_W0QQitemZ7349588690QQcategoryZ4713QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    • #71746
      glw
      Participant

      OK, this guy’s not selling a guitar, he’s selling guitar lessons…

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/10-Beginners-Lessons-from-professional-guitar-tutor_W0QQitemZ7344130794QQcategoryZ2385QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

      Wow! Lessons from Jimi Hendrix himself! How does that work? Do you have to speak to him via dodgy medium Derek Acorah from Most Haunted?

    • #71743
      glw
      Participant

      Nice intonation!

    • #71677
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Meanwhile…back on topic… heres one for you, the mere fact its got lots of damage and ‘screw holes’ seems to make the guitar worth lots more, its a plywood body but has a ‘quality’ perspex scratchplate!

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Custom-built-electric-guitar-bashed-up-looks-ace_W0QQitemZ7343921051QQcategoryZ68175QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    • #71683
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I know what you mean, glw. I was thinking of excluding “mitten in deutschland” and “music-outlet-shop” from the comp, but that´d be complicating things. For all that, he´s just your run-of-the-mill dealer with fantasyland prices that endlessly circle Fleeb with no bids. Funny how almost all of them feature some value-reducing “improvement”.

      Still, I like that “Ramones” plug, so it´s in the hat. I remember some sellers would try to flog Egmonds (really quite unpleasant Dutch 60s planks) with the pitch that “The Beatles almost certainly played some before they got a deal”. High price because famous people might have had one before they got enough money to throw it in a skip? That´s the kind of sales pitch I want to see.

    • #71674
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”glw”]I’m not sure what the value of this Hayman bass guitar is, but I love the fact that they think that they might make a sale by including the band name THE RUBETTES in the subject line!

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33039&item=7314395094%5B/quote%5D
      My Uncle Les made the stage clothes for the ‘Sugar Baby Love Gang’ he knew the Rubettes they went in his pub in Hommerton high st. Hackney, it was then called ‘The Spread Eagle’ but now the jackdaw and something, all those silly coloured suites as seen on top of the pops were Les’s Creations!! but were they big in Germany?

    • #75841
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”glw”]I dunno… Is it just me or is this a lot of money to be asking for a Squier?

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=7310867587

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=3775330384%5B/quote%5D

      Any 80’s Squire will fetch good money, he is a dealer so he’s gonna be £100 OTT, so i dont think hes stronging it too much.

    • #75781
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”glw”]You’ve got a bit of a “thing” about that Marley guitar, haven’t you?

      I bet you secretly desire one. Or do you already have one stashed away?[/quote]

      Yeah Mon, i and i, and one love. 😆

    • #71737
      glw
      Participant

      Another one from the same seller:

      GIBSON RIPPER BASS — 1976 , slightly modified…..

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=7311206698

      http://i6.ebayimg.com/02/i/03/a8/a2/8f_1_b.JPG

      Slightly?

      The listing says: maple body transformed by Jack the Tripper into some kind of tomahawk sculpture……… – as if that’s a good thing! This poor bass has been butchered and they still want best part of 400 notes for it!

    • #71622
      glw
      Participant

      Whoops, I mean guitar, not BASS guitar.

    • #71691
      glw
      Participant

      I’m not sure what the value of this Hayman bass guitar is, but I love the fact that they think that they might make a sale by including the band name THE RUBETTES in the subject line!

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33039&item=7314395094

    • #75835
      glw
      Participant
    • #71726
      glw
      Participant

      You’ve got a bit of a “thing” about that Marley guitar, haven’t you?

      I bet you secretly desire one. Or do you already have one stashed away?

    • #75832
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Darn it all.. 😈 Damned rules.

    • #75864
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Sorry, Lee. I remember that urgly burger in the “worst finish” thread, but it doesn’t quite make my criteria. I’m not sure what the MSRP on this guitar is, but I’ll assume this one is priced on the high side. Even so, the seller hasn’t gone for some laughable selling point in the body text. If it’d had “only this guitar can faithfully replicate No Woman no Cry” blurb, it might have been in with a shout.

    • #71686
      lee_UK
      Participant

      I think this one takes the ‘Top Honours’ , no point in anyone else participating, lets just draw this one to a close with this little beauty, as MC Hammer once said, ‘You cant touch this’.

      http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33037&item=7337682343&rd=1

      simply Wicked. 😆

    • #75777
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Its a good one, i do like the yellow PUPs the cream coloured Vol/Tone controls and the white scratchplate, it all seems to have aged in 3 different time zones, and then brought together by Dr Who and his tardis..

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