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12-18-2008, 10:48 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Martin Keith Guitars Moderator | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Long Island, NY | | | Hey guys, act quick! Roscoe fretless 5 BIN $1225
http://cgi.ebay.com/Keith-Roscoe-Cus...3286.m20.l1116
Someone's going to owe me a beer.
No, a six pack.
No, a bottle of single malt scotch. 
I have no connection with the auction whatsoever. Go!
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12-18-2008, 11:04 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Martin Keith Guitars Moderator | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Long Island, NY | | | Is it weird that it has a burl maple headstock cap and a zebrawood top on the body? Clearly an older one, but wow, that's cheap. |
12-19-2008, 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by smperry  Is it weird that it has a burl maple headstock cap and a zebrawood top on the body? Clearly an older one, but wow, that's cheap. | That was the first thing I noticed practically as well.
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12-19-2008, 09:02 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | That's an early 90's LG 2005 (note the non-carved top), and back at that time, Keith used the same headstock veneer on every neck, no matter what the top wood...hey, uh...well, it was the early 90's, and he was just beginning to recover from building THESE (  ):
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12-19-2008, 09:16 AM
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Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Santa Cruz Mtns, California | | | EMG's... in a Roscoe?
Anyway, it does look like a sweet deal. The seller has some other very nice gear going pretty cheap...
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12-19-2008, 09:54 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kesslari EMG's... in a Roscoe?
Anyway, it does look like a sweet deal. The seller has some other very nice gear going pretty cheap... | Again, early 90's, yeah, EMG's!  Also, a Wilkinson bridge.
Things change...in this case, for the better!
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12-19-2008, 03:38 PM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | |
That's a piece of Roscoe history for sure!
I love seeing the way the Roscoe basses developed to what they are today!
Clint needs to spend his Christmas & New Year holidays developing the "History" section of the Roscoe Web site!
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12-19-2008, 08:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 That's a piece of Roscoe history for sure!
I love seeing the way the Roscoe basses developed to what they are today!
Clint needs to spend his Christmas & New Year holidays developing the "History" section of the Roscoe Web site!
Get on it Clint! | Short of kidnapping Keith and holding him hostage until he spills the beans on the history, it may be a while before that part is updated. Maybe everyone should send emails to Keith until he puts something together.   |
12-20-2008, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by CrashClint Short of kidnapping Keith and holding him hostage until he spills the beans on the history, it may be a while before that part is updated. | Kidnapping Keith......  Now that's an idea!
.....And I could also use the one-on-one time with him to convince him into moving the Roscoe shop to Macon Georgia! 
One trip to the "Big House" and H & H Diner for a meal cooked by Mama Louise's and he'd be sold! http://mamalouise.com/
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12-21-2008, 01:13 AM
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Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Santa Cruz Mtns, California | | | Wow, still there...
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12-21-2008, 10:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: St. Paul, MN | |  You're mean, smperry
I just came in from blowing snow for 2 hours in -15 degree windchill and was about to settle in for a relaxing lunch...maybe a nap...? And now you've ruined it. Having recently acquired a "sister" bass, SKB2006 #3143, I'm fighting hard not to appoint myself to the position of Vintage Roscoe Museum curator as a rationalization for buying this thing. Thanks for wrecking my afternoon. |
12-21-2008, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Gard Again, early 90's, yeah, EMG's! Also, a Wilkinson bridge.
Things change...in this case, for the better! | Gard, could this bass be retrofitted with one of the current Hipshot custom bridges, or would that result in too many holes drilled in too small an area of the body? |
12-22-2008, 11:48 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Martin Keith Guitars Moderator | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Long Island, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lwrthnwhalepoop I just came in from blowing snow for 2 hours in -15 degree windchill and was about to settle in for a relaxing lunch...maybe a nap...? And now you've ruined it. Having recently acquired a "sister" bass, SKB2006 #3143, I'm fighting hard not to appoint myself to the position of Vintage Roscoe Museum curator as a rationalization for buying this thing. Thanks for wrecking my afternoon. | Anytime. |
12-22-2008, 12:06 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lwrthnwhalepoop Gard, could this bass be retrofitted with one of the current Hipshot custom bridges, or would that result in too many holes drilled in too small an area of the body? | Can't promise anything, but we're pretty good at "hiding" stuff... 
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12-23-2008, 12:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: St. Paul, MN | | | I think I'll pass. I'd prefer a fretboard with "cheater lines" for times when I'm feeling less-than-brilliant - or rather *playing* less than brilliant. I think I'll set up a demo of a new Roscoe fretless that's in the area and go from there. Close call, though! |
12-23-2008, 01:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | If I kid napped him I would put him to work in my sweat shop, that way I would have great tennis shoes and excellent basses! 
Macon Georgia? I remember the movies Macon County Line and Deliverance. Keith wouldn't stand a chance... if you combined those two movies you would have dirty cops doing dirty deeds! Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 Kidnapping Keith...... Now that's an idea!
.....And I could also use the one-on-one time with him to convince him into moving the Roscoe shop to Macon Georgia!
One trip to the "Big House" and H & H Diner for a meal cooked by Mama Louise's and he'd be sold! | |
12-26-2008, 02:51 PM
|  | Reads well and plays nice with others... | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Southwestern Pennsylvania | | Now if that was a 6.....
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