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09-01-2009, 06:21 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Spector Basses, T.C. Electronics | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: NH | | | Danger!!
I'm thinking this could be a ticking time bomb to someone who tries to play it? I know very little about DB's but when I researched an inexpensive one, I learned enough to know the mess this thing is in: http://boston.craigslist.org/nwb/msg/1353938653.html
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09-01-2009, 06:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Seattle, WA | | | That's hard to look at and read. What a shame.
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09-01-2009, 06:29 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Frankenstein! |
09-01-2009, 06:56 PM
|  | Tolerated User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: State College, PA | | I don't know whether to laugh or cry.  |
09-01-2009, 07:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Louisville/ Bloomington IN | |  I think i died a little... |
09-01-2009, 07:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand | | | Well, it's not actually that bad. I think there might be a nice bass hiding in there, once it's fixed up. |
09-01-2009, 07:22 PM
| | | | Ouch. That's a huge mess.
What an ignorant...I can't believe he'd even publish how enormously bad he .....that bass got exponentially worse when he was "fixing" it.
It's just sad.
That is not easy to come back from. |
09-01-2009, 07:28 PM
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Bass Hobby'ist | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Southern PA | | I’m gonna go hug my blockless wonder and tell him some day he is going to be a beautiful bass again  …I wonder if this bass wants to join the family? What a shame. |
09-01-2009, 07:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia | | | Hmm a prima bass doesnt look so bad anymore. |
09-01-2009, 07:43 PM
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09-01-2009, 07:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Houston | | | "please note the nailed in soundpost, and chopped up bridge. also the funny stitches."
I just cringed
This is terrible....this could have been a quality 100 year old German flatback, but instead its covered with chemical paint stripper, epoxy, wood putty, nails, and staples. What a shame. |
09-01-2009, 09:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Colorado | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Gress  Frankenstein! | I thought Frankenbass myself. I don't have enough knowledge for an opinion really. |
09-01-2009, 10:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: emmitsburg, maryland | | | true to form...thoroughly documented repairs.
spent a whole month on it.
blue ribbon ineptitude. |
09-01-2009, 11:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NYC | | | You can fix a bass, but you can't fix stupid..... |
09-01-2009, 11:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NYC, Astoria | | | good lord |
09-02-2009, 04:05 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Maynard MA | | I'm close by, maybe a 40 minute drive. If anyone wants me to check it out, I could contact the seller. I don't have either the time or money to put into it. I wonder what Kurt thinks?  |
09-02-2009, 04:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Boston & Arizona, USA | | | I sent the link to John Styklunas over in Malden to see what he thinks. Maybe I'll give him a ring tomorrow.
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09-02-2009, 04:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Perth, WA, Australia | | | So much stupid,
So little ammo...
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09-02-2009, 05:14 AM
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bass luthier, johnson string inst. | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: waltham, mass. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tomshepp I'm close by, maybe a 40 minute drive. If anyone wants me to check it out, I could contact the seller. I don't have either the time or money to put into it. I wonder what Kurt thinks? | maybe if it had real purfling id think about it, but...
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09-02-2009, 05:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, Ontario | | | Spend $200 now, spend $2000 later and it
Spend $200 now, spend $3000 later and it would still cause a world of headaches. It might have been fixable if he hadn't use chemical strippers, epoxy, lacquer, silicone, nails and industrial staples to "fix" it! Grrr.
Remember that video of the Southern jerks smashing a bass to smithereens? I think this is that bass! |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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