Fixer upper for cheap on Long Island, NY

[faviobarrio]

NOT MINE:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/msg/3567201700.html

[Ed Fuqua]

I can't really read what's stamped into the back, prolly a school bass though. With that white wood fingerboard "ebonized" I'm wondering if this is a CCBSO that new would go for not more than $600-800?

[KUNGfuSHERIFF]

Looks more like an older, European sh!tbox than a newer, Asian sh!tbox to me.

[Ed Fuqua]

Well $260 for an old German or Czech ply + nut, fingerboard & bridge gets you to the $2K neighborhood, if I have correctly tallied my sums...

[KUNGfuSHERIFF]

Don't forget edge repairs, varnish touch-ups, cleaning and lubricating the rusty tuning machines, decent endpin and strings...more like $2500-$3k?

And that's if nothing's actually WRONG with the poor old thing. If you wanna build the pyre, I'll bring the marshmallows and the sticks.

[richhansen]

"white wood fingerboard?"

If my eyes aren't deceiving me, there IS no fingerboard or even a nut on this poor old girl.

[Ed Fuqua]

Originally Posted by richhansen

"white wood fingerboard?"

If my eyes aren't deceiving me, there IS no fingerboard or even a nut on this poor old girl.

Well that makes sense, I couldn't really see enough of it to tell that it was fingerboard or neck.

[Phil Rowan]

"The fingerboard would have to be replaced installed".

[dave79]

Cool, if this were local I'd buy it just to try to fix on my own