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05-30-2010, 06:19 AM
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Found this on CL lookin for a cheap 5er.
I don't have nearly the cash, or the skill to handle this thing, but the price is amazing.. http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/msg/1764702013.html
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05-30-2010, 06:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Daytona/Orlando | | Ooohhh. Pointy. Just in case:
This is a one-of-a-kind doubleneck fretless (X 2) JIL bass guitar, handmade in Ocala. Active or passive pickups, plays and sounds fantastic, in a red flight case. Moves to eBay if not sold this weekend. Call Mike at 352-207-7522.
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05-30-2010, 07:58 AM
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06-01-2010, 11:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Des Moines, IA, USA | | | Wow, a fretless 8-string is a terrible idea... I can't imagine how you could possibly make the octave string make enough contact with the fingerboard that it would actually ring. It seems like it would just mute out against your finger. |
06-04-2010, 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by bassman1185 Wow, a fretless 8-string is a terrible idea... I can't imagine how you could possibly make the octave string make enough contact with the fingerboard that it would actually ring. It seems like it would just mute out against your finger. | Actually, if your fingers are covered in human flesh or a fleshlike substance, it's pretty easy since the flesh of most humans generally has some softness and "give" to it, but I imagine you robots out there would have to develop some special technique. 1950's style crazed boxy-type robots with pincher claws would probably be better off with a different instrument.
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06-11-2010, 07:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: mobile AL | | | I use the 'human flesh finger' technique on my fretless 8 and find it to have a most pleasing tone. It's my fav bass lately. It's not pointy and double-necky, but I like it. |
06-12-2010, 07:25 PM
| | | | This guy's been trying to push it for 4 months, since back when I was looking on CG! |
06-15-2010, 08:17 AM
|  | Bababooey to y'all | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Central Florida | | | I have seen this thing listed for a while in orlando also...
I imagine it is overpriced...if it were a truely hot deal it would be long gone.....
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06-15-2010, 01:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Vancouver, BC Canada | | It looks really cool. Sadly, I can't afford it either. Who knows? Once the seller places it on eBay someone might be able to pick it up for less via auction.
+1 for owning human-flesh-based fingers. 
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06-16-2010, 04:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: under your bed | | | It looks like a very well built instrument, looks like a lot of time and attention to detail went into it. If it is actually as high quality as it looks, it's a bargain. Go price a doubleneck bass made by a good luthier. First you'd have to find one who would do it, and then it'd probably run you $3-5K.I'm not in Florida, and I don't have the money. Part of his problem is likely that his target buyer is someone with some disposable cash and a fondness for high quality but offbeat instruments. Maybe not a lot of them cruising his local Craigslist, vastly outnumbered by penniless kids, scammers from another continent (sounds like a 50's B-movie), and nutjobs. Or maybe just robots with big metal claw hands.
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06-22-2010, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by bassman1185 Wow, a fretless 8-string is a terrible idea... I can't imagine how you could possibly make the octave string make enough contact with the fingerboard that it would actually ring. It seems like it would just mute out against your finger. | Actually, it's not at all hard to make both strings ring out. The hard part--at least with the Curbow fretless 8 I had--was fingering them both perfectly parallel so they were in tune with each other....
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06-23-2010, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by mikezimmerman Actually, it's not at all hard to make both strings ring out. The hard part--at least with the Curbow fretless 8 I had--was fingering them both perfectly parallel so they were in tune with each other.... | It's a bit of a trick on my 8 string electric upright as well.
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02-27-2012, 09:28 AM
| | | I saw this on ebay Friday and impulsively hit the buy it now. Wish I would have thought a little harder about it now. Found this thread after buying it. Its a pawn shop selling it.
Just found this old link http://www.8stringguitar.org/for-sal...f-a-kind/1742/
I got it for $1000.00 $25.00 shipping 
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02-27-2012, 12:06 PM
| | | | What a cool instrument. Very creative and clever the way the builder carved out sections of the body to reduce the weight.
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