"Optimistic" eBayers

lee_UK · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:21 am Post subject:

[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. Laughing

glw · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:15 am Post subject:

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

lee_UK · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject:

Wheres my rip saw?

Joe M'geek · Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 5

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 Wink

glw · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject:

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.

Joe M'geek · Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 5

Interesting...one thing i DO know about the uk guitar industry in the sixties, is that consistency wasn't a strong point Wink

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 Rolling Eyes

myfoot · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject:

BIN of $3750

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

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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

1bassleft · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject:

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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

. Good find, myfoot.

lee_UK · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject:

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?

myfoot · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject:

lee_UK wrote:

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

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 Razz

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