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July 23, 2005 at 11:16 pm #221321bassleftParticipant
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:
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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September 18, 2008 at 5:18 am #72480TimParticipant
Yeah!
…that sounded anal
😀
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September 17, 2008 at 11:04 pm #724971bassleftParticipant
Not very long, after I started with the “vomit” but; at the risk of sounding anal, I thought the “ie” was almost clever.
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September 17, 2008 at 9:46 pm #72244glwParticipant
Blimey, is it nearly a year already?
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September 17, 2008 at 2:43 pm #72268lee_UKParticipant
[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?
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September 17, 2008 at 6:46 am #722581bassleftParticipant
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
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September 16, 2008 at 7:37 pm #72320glwParticipant
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?
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July 13, 2008 at 3:07 am #722621bassleftParticipant
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=120282638386I’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.
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July 12, 2008 at 5:20 am #72277glwParticipant
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.”
What a twat!
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June 6, 2008 at 7:59 am #72335myfootParticipant
[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 😀
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June 6, 2008 at 6:34 am #723151bassleftParticipant
😆 , Tim – that’s very good.
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June 6, 2008 at 12:31 am #72235TimParticipant
[quote=”glw”]
What does ABNOXIOUS mean?[/quote]
It’s the smell of sweaty stomach muscles after a particularly long gig
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June 5, 2008 at 9:28 pm #72313lee_UKParticipant
Have you noticed, this thread is where the angry people hang out. 😈
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June 5, 2008 at 4:20 pm #72283glwParticipant
[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?
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June 5, 2008 at 7:32 am #722331bassleftParticipant
That’s right. One like this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/363344428_e535f86343.jpg?v=0IIRC, 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.
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June 5, 2008 at 7:26 am #72246myfootParticipant
If that’s not a record it must be close 🙂 … those other PAs have 2 sets of 4 inputs don’t they?
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June 5, 2008 at 6:48 am #723271bassleftParticipant
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” -
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May 21, 2008 at 6:23 am #72309lee_UKParticipant
I wonder what kind of tuning he is using on that single string setup.
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May 21, 2008 at 1:04 am #72300TimParticipant
The size catagory on Ebay suggests it’s actually a 4-quarter size…
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May 20, 2008 at 4:58 am #723311bassleftParticipant
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.
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May 19, 2008 at 6:39 pm #72229myfootParticipant
😛 Nice find… That pick guard is a work of art .
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May 19, 2008 at 6:31 pm #72291glwParticipant
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.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/notastrat01.jpg
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May 13, 2008 at 2:06 am #72266lee_UKParticipant
This kind of stuff just angers the blood.
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May 12, 2008 at 7:36 am #722371bassleftParticipant
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 🙄
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May 12, 2008 at 6:16 am #72231myfootParticipant
😯 OMFG 😯 Hmmm ,there may be a market for some of my son’s starter amps after all.
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May 12, 2008 at 5:17 am #72249lee_UKParticipant
Sold for the asking price.
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May 11, 2008 at 4:28 pm #72273myfootParticipant
[quote]Q: nuts… did jimmy page use this amp ? May-08-08
A: No, Mikki Moody
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May 9, 2008 at 6:24 pm #72260myfootParticipant
😛 😛
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May 9, 2008 at 5:09 am #72256TimParticipant
[quote=”lee_UK”], Bass will supply the…catchy chants[/quote]
A! A! A! A! E! E! E! E!….
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May 9, 2008 at 4:51 am #72294lee_UKParticipant
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.
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May 6, 2008 at 3:49 pm #72242glwParticipant
The headstock is the wrong shape for a Fender too. It should have a rounded inner corner on the underside, not a sharp one.
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May 6, 2008 at 6:54 am #722711bassleftParticipant
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.
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May 3, 2008 at 4:28 pm #72286glwParticipant
[quote=”Tim”]100 layers of Acrylic..why is that good?[/quote]
Waterproofing? It’ll need it if it falls in that swimming pool.
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May 3, 2008 at 6:29 am #72303TimParticipant
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?
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May 2, 2008 at 10:32 pm #72280lee_UKParticipant
100 coats of acrylic ?? glass like finish?? the photos don’t show that.
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May 2, 2008 at 8:29 pm #72254glwParticipant
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.
Would you leave a guitar supposedly worth that kind of money standing around at the edge of a swimming pool?
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April 29, 2008 at 7:47 am #72318MichaelParticipant
Lucky there is: Up to £150 buyer protection available on this item with PayPal.
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April 28, 2008 at 3:48 pm #72264myfootParticipant
😯 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.
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April 28, 2008 at 7:06 am #722241bassleftParticipant
This isn’t just “optimistic”; it’s barking mad:
the seller mentions the new price of £300 in the description 🙄
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April 28, 2008 at 6:51 am #72250myfootParticipant
[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 .
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April 28, 2008 at 5:36 am #722201bassleftParticipant
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.
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April 27, 2008 at 8:27 pm #72306lee_UKParticipant
Something tells me you wanted to see this auction crash and burn… 😈
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April 23, 2008 at 9:57 pm #72298myfootParticipant
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 .
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April 16, 2008 at 1:11 am #72290myfootParticipant
[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 😛 -
April 15, 2008 at 10:58 pm #72333lee_UKParticipant
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?
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April 15, 2008 at 10:09 pm #723231bassleftParticipant
[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.
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April 15, 2008 at 7:22 pm #72252myfootParticipant
BIN of $3750
[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]
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March 5, 2008 at 5:21 am #72239Joe M”geekParticipant
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 🙄
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March 3, 2008 at 8:11 pm #72226glwParticipant
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.
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March 3, 2008 at 6:30 pm #72240Joe M”geekParticipant
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 😉
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March 1, 2008 at 5:37 am #72222lee_UKParticipant
Wheres my rip saw?
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February 29, 2008 at 6:15 pm #72324glwParticipant
Where is this skip? I like funky junk like that.
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February 29, 2008 at 7:21 am #72109lee_UKParticipant
[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.
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She got it from the skip. 😆
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February 29, 2008 at 7:19 am #72097lee_UKParticipant
[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.
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February 29, 2008 at 6:51 am #720741bassleftParticipant
Off topic, but it’s taken me this long to notice your >1k posts rating, glw. Congrats, and thanks for the quality 🙂
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February 28, 2008 at 5:42 am #72093TimParticipant
Just to rub it in…
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February 27, 2008 at 10:51 pm #72076glwParticipant
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.
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February 27, 2008 at 7:09 am #720951bassleftParticipant
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.
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February 27, 2008 at 6:14 am #72098lee_UKParticipant
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.
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February 25, 2008 at 8:32 pm #72073glwParticipant
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/vox_clubman.jpg
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/60s-VOX-CLUBMAN-made-in-the-UK_W0QQitemZ180165267845QQihZ008QQcategoryZ101558QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemI 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.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/voxfretless.jpg -
January 12, 2008 at 8:28 pm #72094lee_UKParticipant
[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.
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January 12, 2008 at 4:08 am #72111TimParticipant
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!
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January 11, 2008 at 6:49 am #720911bassleftParticipant
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.
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January 10, 2008 at 9:58 pm #72081myfootParticipant
Note top of the line wiring job on this super clean Marshall head
Great opening bid on a classic
http://cgi.ebay.com/MARSHALL-AMPS_W0QQitemZ230210066764QQihZ013QQcategoryZ38075QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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January 7, 2008 at 9:55 am #720691bassleftParticipant
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.
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January 7, 2008 at 8:23 am #72090lee_UKParticipant
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.
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December 31, 2007 at 12:55 am #720661bassleftParticipant
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 😯
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November 24, 2007 at 8:58 am #721121bassleftParticipant
😆 . 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”
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November 23, 2007 at 8:02 pm #72070glwParticipant
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#ebayphotohostingCan 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!
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November 1, 2007 at 4:50 pm #72101lee_UKParticipant
Good point, i hadn’t thought of that. 😕
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November 1, 2007 at 10:18 am #72096MichaelParticipant
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…………..
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November 1, 2007 at 3:11 am #72105lee_UKParticipant
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.
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April 6, 2007 at 5:28 pm #72084lee_UKParticipant
Charged with trying to make a £15 guitar look like a £17.50 Guitar? GUILTY
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March 24, 2007 at 11:13 pm #72115lee_UKParticipant
Here here.
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March 23, 2007 at 8:14 am #72107MichaelParticipant
Anyone who uses a size 600 font on an ebay sale needs a good kickin.
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March 23, 2007 at 7:12 am #72100lee_UKParticipant
he has got some front putting it on ebay.
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March 21, 2007 at 11:11 pm #72075glwParticipant
That is hideous.
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March 21, 2007 at 8:56 pm #72103lee_UKParticipant
The modification is so subtle you would hardly notice anything has changed, you need to look very close to spot it..
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March 20, 2007 at 7:39 pm #72087myfootParticipant
I’m not home at the moment but hopefully this link will work
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March 20, 2007 at 6:11 pm #72114glwParticipant
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?
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March 20, 2007 at 6:19 am #720721bassleftParticipant
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_W0QQitemZ140098159949QQcategoryZ33039QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemBecause 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_W0QQitemZ140090122513QQcategoryZ33039QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemThen as a (bizarrely) £38.38 item with free shipping:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USED-SQUIER-STRATOCASTER-LEFTY-LEFT-H-BODY-RIGHT-H-NECK_W0QQitemZ140094058499QQcategoryZ33039QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemNeither 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?
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March 20, 2007 at 6:09 am #720991bassleftParticipant
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:
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March 19, 2007 at 11:16 pm #72071lee_UKParticipant
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.
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February 22, 2007 at 5:03 pm #72113glwParticipant
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.
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February 22, 2007 at 5:39 am #72085lee_UKParticipant
[quote=”glw”]Here’s another seller who’s asking far too much for a 70s not-that-accurate copy guitar.
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.
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February 20, 2007 at 5:57 am #72089TimParticipant
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.
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February 19, 2007 at 11:32 pm #72106glwParticipant
Here’s another seller who’s asking far too much for a 70s not-that-accurate copy guitar.
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.
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February 19, 2007 at 5:11 pm #72083glwParticipant
Of course I don’t mind. It was a toss up as to which thread to post it under anyway!
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February 19, 2007 at 7:27 am #72086lee_UKParticipant
[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?
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 😆
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February 19, 2007 at 2:53 am #720791bassleftParticipant
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):
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February 18, 2007 at 8:25 am #72108lee_UKParticipant
I think he’s been on the wacky backy.
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February 18, 2007 at 5:53 am #72067lee_UKParticipant
I had to hold my sides, blow torched up! what a find glw! classic.
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February 17, 2007 at 7:30 pm #72092glwParticipant
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?
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.
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February 12, 2007 at 7:44 pm #72088glwParticipant
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
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February 12, 2007 at 6:29 pm #72104lee_UKParticipant
Nice one.. 😆
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February 12, 2007 at 6:04 pm #72080myfootParticipant
[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 😛
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February 12, 2007 at 5:57 pm #72068lee_UKParticipant
[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?
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February 12, 2007 at 8:56 am #720821bassleftParticipant
Not even a Bendercaster. Cannot see a single reason why the requested $3200 should be reached. Dream on, seller.
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February 11, 2007 at 8:20 am #72078lee_UKParticipant
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.
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February 11, 2007 at 1:18 am #72077myfootParticipant
Is it just me or is this a tad overpriced..opening bid isn’t bad
http://cgi.ebay.com/Bass-Guitar-Fender-Electric-Unique-Weird_W0QQitemZ180082338979QQihZ008QQcategoryZ85865QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem -
December 23, 2006 at 5:44 am #721021bassleftParticipant
Here’s one of my weirdest “optimistic” posts:
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?”
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November 9, 2006 at 6:32 am #72110lee_UKParticipant
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.
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October 21, 2006 at 8:34 am #719871bassleftParticipant
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.
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October 1, 2006 at 5:08 pm #72008glwParticipant
[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.
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October 1, 2006 at 5:03 pm #71974glwParticipant
[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:
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?
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October 1, 2006 at 8:01 am #720021bassleftParticipant
A rare “left-handed” plectrum for £2.99 🙄 Unbelievably, the guy has 325 positive feedbacks 😯
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October 1, 2006 at 6:28 am #719821bassleftParticipant
This one’s so funny – like one of those “our artist has made ten deliberate mistakes” but this time it’s an eBay listing:
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.
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September 23, 2006 at 9:37 pm #720031bassleftParticipant
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 🙄
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September 23, 2006 at 7:28 pm #72004mrblancheMember
OK, call me cruel, but I’ve seen better wood finishing in a high-school wood shop.
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September 23, 2006 at 6:47 pm #71967RawbluesParticipant
This is my personal favourite at the moment…
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.
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September 22, 2006 at 7:17 am #719781bassleftParticipant
😆 😆 , 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.
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September 21, 2006 at 3:31 am #72006lee_UKParticipant
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!
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September 20, 2006 at 6:55 pm #72009lee_UKParticipant
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. 😆
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September 20, 2006 at 4:13 pm #71979glwParticipant
[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]
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September 20, 2006 at 8:45 am #719991bassleftParticipant
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 🙄
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September 18, 2006 at 2:13 am #72001lee_UKParticipant
Only in America eh? 😯
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September 17, 2006 at 8:54 am #719861bassleftParticipant
What can I say? This is just pathetic. Surprisingly bidless.
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September 10, 2006 at 7:54 pm #71973mrblancheMember
Guilty!!!
And it’s a Buffett song.
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September 9, 2006 at 6:10 pm #72015lee_UKParticipant
At least he gets his photo seen by 46 people, ‘Its midnight, and i AM famous’ (where have i found that before?)
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September 9, 2006 at 1:06 pm #719891bassleftParticipant
[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 🙄
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September 8, 2006 at 3:07 pm #71996lee_UKParticipant
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.
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September 7, 2006 at 12:51 am #71969lee_UKParticipant
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. 😆
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September 6, 2006 at 7:43 am #719951bassleftParticipant
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.
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September 5, 2006 at 11:29 pm #71971lee_UKParticipant
[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. 😆
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September 5, 2006 at 9:52 am #71994MichaelParticipant
lol just saw the £50 fine comment. some people honestly need a kick in the chops.
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September 5, 2006 at 9:12 am #720121bassleftParticipant
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.
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September 5, 2006 at 12:26 am #71992lee_UKParticipant
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
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September 4, 2006 at 7:55 am #719681bassleftParticipant
I saw that and thought “See you in court”. Probably thinks he’s Judge Dredd but doesn’t even make Judge Judy.
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September 3, 2006 at 5:37 pm #71998lee_UKParticipant
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.’
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September 3, 2006 at 1:29 pm #71970BopsAlotParticipant
[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? 😀
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September 3, 2006 at 11:00 am #719911bassleftParticipant
Oh, the BIN price is particularly hilarious. “So if you want a 70s Strat without the high price tag” spunk £550 on a Columbus ❓ ❓ ❓
😆 😆 😆
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September 2, 2006 at 6:03 pm #71984lee_UKParticipant
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.
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May 19, 2006 at 3:53 am #72014USGoldParticipant
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?
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May 19, 2006 at 3:01 am #71981TimParticipant
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.
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May 18, 2006 at 10:32 pm #72010glwParticipant
“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.
Crikey! Give me strength.
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March 27, 2006 at 10:53 am #719831bassleftParticipant
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.
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March 27, 2006 at 4:10 am #72000lee_UKParticipant
[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?
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March 26, 2006 at 1:12 am #719881bassleftParticipant
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.
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March 23, 2006 at 10:09 am #719931bassleftParticipant
Optimistic “Bolha”-er. A Simms-Watts PA head starting at over 300 euros 😆
http://www.bolha.com/oglas1138272I’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”
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March 14, 2006 at 8:41 am #720071bassleftParticipant
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?
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March 13, 2006 at 7:42 pm #72005lee_UKParticipant
[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?
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March 12, 2006 at 7:14 am #719661bassleftParticipant
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
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March 12, 2006 at 3:47 am #71976lee_UKParticipant
Deustchlande uber Mutterland?
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March 7, 2006 at 4:36 am #720111bassleftParticipant
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_W0QQitemZ7394639813QQcategoryZ38075QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemI 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).
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March 2, 2006 at 9:53 am #719971bassleftParticipant
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.
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February 21, 2006 at 7:07 am #71990lee_UKParticipant
[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
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February 20, 2006 at 9:25 am #719751bassleftParticipant
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).
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February 8, 2006 at 11:15 am #720131bassleftParticipant
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… 😆
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February 7, 2006 at 7:38 am #71985lee_UKParticipant
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. 😆 -
February 6, 2006 at 8:57 am #719721bassleftParticipant
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.
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February 4, 2006 at 8:57 pm #71980lee_UKParticipant
[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 🙄
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?
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February 4, 2006 at 9:42 am #719771bassleftParticipant
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 🙄
Some people like paying listing fees for nothing.
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January 21, 2006 at 8:55 am #718231bassleftParticipant
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. -
January 20, 2006 at 11:53 pm #71826glwParticipant
So, Teiscos are collectable. Apparently. There were some good ones, and there were some right pigs -al though they often looked quite cool.
And then there was the other crap…
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December 15, 2005 at 11:12 pm #71809lee_UKParticipant
and its a bloody big biscuit too, its the wagon wheel of biscuits, THE DADDY!
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December 15, 2005 at 9:33 pm #71832glwParticipant
Blimey. I reckon that one takes the biscuit.
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December 15, 2005 at 5:08 am #718631bassleftParticipant
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.
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December 11, 2005 at 7:52 pm #71859glwParticipant
Ah, so you were paraphrasing. I’ll let you off in that case.
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December 11, 2005 at 1:39 am #718501bassleftParticipant
😆 , 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 😆
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December 10, 2005 at 7:48 pm #71817glwParticipant
Except it was “Rip it UP”.
Don’t you hate a know-it-all?
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December 10, 2005 at 8:47 am #718291bassleftParticipant
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 🙂
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December 8, 2005 at 12:42 am #71830lee_UKParticipant
Loks like he sold it privately, maybe Franz Ferdinand offered him a free CD and a Jam Donut for it.
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December 7, 2005 at 10:17 am #718671bassleftParticipant
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_W0QQitemZ7372846533QQcategoryZ10171QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemNo, 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”
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November 27, 2005 at 8:50 am #718241bassleftParticipant
It passed, sans bid. Quel surprise. Someone correct my lousy French. Nobody bid on this “bargain”, in plain English 😆
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November 24, 2005 at 2:36 am #71845lee_UKParticipant
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?
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November 23, 2005 at 6:18 pm #71857glwParticipant
What is it? All I get is “The page cannot be displayed”.
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November 23, 2005 at 4:50 am #718541bassleftParticipant
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 🙄
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November 19, 2005 at 5:33 am #71846lee_UKParticipant
[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:
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.
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November 17, 2005 at 5:47 pm #71835glwParticipant
I quite like it actually. Reminds me of the “bowling ball” Strats.
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November 17, 2005 at 6:16 am #718411bassleftParticipant
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:
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.
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November 15, 2005 at 8:03 pm #71837glwParticipant
Come again?
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November 15, 2005 at 7:07 pm #71852hankster669Participant
Crucianelli Guitars i have a elli 12 have any takers
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November 15, 2005 at 5:38 pm #71865glwParticipant
[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).
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November 15, 2005 at 6:34 am #718111bassleftParticipant
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.” -
November 15, 2005 at 6:18 am #718641bassleftParticipant
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”
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November 8, 2005 at 10:31 pm #718601bassleftParticipant
That’s heavy irony, Lee 🙂
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November 8, 2005 at 9:05 am #71866lee_UKParticipant
‘Legendary’?? are you sure?
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November 7, 2005 at 10:08 am #718681bassleftParticipant
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?
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November 7, 2005 at 6:00 am #71803MichaelParticipant
The picture makes it look short, stubby and rather fat… much like Phil. Still you think it’s too much?
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November 6, 2005 at 6:15 am #71851lee_UKParticipant
dont veiw this one if you have just eaten.
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November 5, 2005 at 7:10 am #71836lee_UKParticipant
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?
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November 2, 2005 at 2:59 am #71844lee_UKParticipant
no chance.
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November 1, 2005 at 10:24 pm #718421bassleftParticipant
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_W0QQitemZ7362226037QQcategoryZ112670QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemMuch 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? 😯 😆
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October 31, 2005 at 7:50 am #718211bassleftParticipant
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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October 31, 2005 at 6:43 am #71847lee_UKParticipant
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October 31, 2005 at 6:06 am #71853lee_UKParticipant
i think those hillbillies should stick to what they know best, rogering poor innocent tourists in woodlands whilst making that horrible squeeling noise,
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October 31, 2005 at 5:59 am #718401bassleftParticipant
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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October 29, 2005 at 5:50 pm #71849lee_UKParticipant
[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’. 😆
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October 29, 2005 at 7:17 am #718381bassleftParticipant
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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October 29, 2005 at 5:15 am #71805glwParticipant
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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October 28, 2005 at 11:51 pm #71815lee_UKParticipant
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_ITcheck out the 2 screws holding on the headstock to the neck.
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October 28, 2005 at 6:24 pm #71843glwParticipant
How’s about this “Hillbilly” upright electric bass…
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October 28, 2005 at 7:23 am #71848lee_UKParticipant
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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October 27, 2005 at 10:43 am #718561bassleftParticipant
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”
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October 26, 2005 at 11:41 pm #71819lee_UKParticipant
Already did it, no reply yet.
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October 26, 2005 at 11:29 pm #71813glwParticipant
Who’s going to “Ask seller a question” and query the exorbitant price?
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October 26, 2005 at 7:55 am #71862italosParticipant
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 😯
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October 26, 2005 at 7:18 am #71839MichaelParticipant
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.
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October 26, 2005 at 7:13 am #71807lee_UKParticipant
The most expensive squier in the world???
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRAND-NEW-SQUIER-FENDER-GUITAR_W0QQitemZ7358630877QQcategoryZ33039QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem -
October 24, 2005 at 2:03 am #71858lee_UKParticipant
wheres my lighter fluid and my box of matches?
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October 24, 2005 at 2:01 am #71855lee_UKParticipant
take one crapo quality guitar, 1 can of silver car spray, and 1 bored idiot and things start to happen..
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October 24, 2005 at 1:57 am #71861lee_UKParticipant
seller on this says ‘make unknown’ can anybody help him out? he’s obviously looked all over it for clues to its manufacturer..
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October 24, 2005 at 1:49 am #76005lee_UKParticipant
do you think the inclusion of a ‘free tube of glue’ will help shift this one?
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October 17, 2005 at 11:29 pm #71714lee_UKParticipant
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..
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October 16, 2005 at 10:37 am #760071bassleftParticipant
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_W0QQitemZ7358200438QQcategoryZ64403QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemWhat I’d like to know is… where does the $3000 price tag come from? Magical Mystery Tosser.
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October 16, 2005 at 6:09 am #759991bassleftParticipant
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.
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October 16, 2005 at 5:59 am #71740lee_UKParticipant
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.. 😆
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October 16, 2005 at 4:35 am #717011bassleftParticipant
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 😆
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October 15, 2005 at 5:11 am #76012lee_UKParticipant
Don’t know about a pair of nuts, it looks more like a set of dentures..
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October 14, 2005 at 7:54 am #716731bassleftParticipant
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…
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October 7, 2005 at 7:09 am #760001bassleftParticipant
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.JPGWell, 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”
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October 7, 2005 at 5:39 am #759931bassleftParticipant
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 😯
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October 6, 2005 at 3:43 pm #75789glwParticipant
[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.
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October 6, 2005 at 12:17 am #75880lee_UKParticipant
is he selling the guitar or the stickers?? have a read of the ‘garb’
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October 5, 2005 at 11:55 pm #71692lee_UKParticipant
‘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..
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October 4, 2005 at 7:04 am #758381bassleftParticipant
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?” 🙂
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October 2, 2005 at 8:25 pm #75826lee_UKParticipant
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?
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October 2, 2005 at 8:11 pm #71704lee_UKParticipant
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. -
October 2, 2005 at 7:56 pm #71731lee_UKParticipant
[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. -
October 2, 2005 at 7:45 pm #75803lee_UKParticipant
[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. -
October 2, 2005 at 5:14 pm #71719glwParticipant
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.
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October 2, 2005 at 8:05 am #758481bassleftParticipant
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? 😯
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September 28, 2005 at 7:18 am #717241bassleftParticipant
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.
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September 24, 2005 at 8:34 am #717111bassleftParticipant
Is it just me, or does this one o’mill scratchplate copy seem overpriced, given they’ve just rubbed an old teabag over it?
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September 16, 2005 at 9:00 am #717291bassleftParticipant
😆 , 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?
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September 16, 2005 at 12:52 am #71698lee_UKParticipant
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.. 😆
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August 23, 2005 at 6:23 pm #71746glwParticipant
OK, this guy’s not selling a guitar, he’s selling guitar lessons…
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?
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August 23, 2005 at 5:39 pm #71743glwParticipant
Nice intonation!
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August 23, 2005 at 5:23 pm #71677lee_UKParticipant
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!
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August 4, 2005 at 3:06 am #716831bassleftParticipant
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.
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July 28, 2005 at 1:05 am #71674lee_UKParticipant
[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? -
July 28, 2005 at 1:00 am #75841lee_UKParticipant
[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.
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July 28, 2005 at 12:58 am #75781lee_UKParticipant
[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. 😆
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July 27, 2005 at 11:13 pm #71737glwParticipant
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!
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July 27, 2005 at 11:08 pm #71622glwParticipant
Whoops, I mean guitar, not BASS guitar.
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July 27, 2005 at 11:07 pm #71691glwParticipant
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
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July 27, 2005 at 11:03 pm #75835glwParticipant
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
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July 27, 2005 at 10:45 pm #71726glwParticipant
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?
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July 25, 2005 at 7:14 am #75832lee_UKParticipant
Darn it all.. 😈 Damned rules.
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July 25, 2005 at 6:27 am #758641bassleftParticipant
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.
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July 24, 2005 at 4:41 pm #71686lee_UKParticipant
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. 😆
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July 24, 2005 at 6:22 am #75777lee_UKParticipant
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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