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08-06-2011, 05:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Halifax | | | Russian plastic hollow body bass
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Anybody have any experience with a plastic hollow body bass from Russia or anywhere else for that matter? http://cgi.ebay.com/Rarest-USSR-Vint...ht_2366wt_1002
Saw this one today on eBay. Not at a place where I can paste a picture, but here's a link anyway.
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08-06-2011, 05:22 PM
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John K Custom Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA | | | IMO, it looks kinda cool, but it has the the most open looking f holes i've ever seen! |
08-06-2011, 06:57 PM
| | | | Those are huge F-holes:P looks kinda cheesy IMO.... but that's me. The bridge design could be much better. I'm sure the neck dive is terrible too.
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08-06-2011, 07:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Erie, PA | | | Wow I really like the looks of it, I have a feeling it wouldn't sound to great, simialer to plastic acoustic basses. It makes me want to try one out though haha
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08-06-2011, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by johnk_10  IMO, it looks kinda cool, but it has the the most open looking f holes i've ever seen! | Quote:
Originally Posted by Stilettoprefer Those are huge F-holes  looks kinda cheesy IMO.... but that's me. |  Oh boy. I guess I'm still in my pre-pubescent phase.
But about the guitar, I've never had a first hand encounter with Eastern Block guitars. There are some stories around the net though.
In some cases it seems like they used materials left over from the production of unrelated products. I think there biggest attraction is as an oddity for some collectors.
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08-06-2011, 09:36 PM
| | | | They used to and still may sell, plastic guitars at some larger toy stores. They sound like what they are, plastic. Pretty bad.
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08-06-2011, 09:51 PM
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Plastic and Russia should never be used together. Ever.
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08-06-2011, 10:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Regina, SK, Canada | | I played this one, when I was living in Ukraine. The price for it is around 40-50$. Impossibly to setup, bad sounding, good looking 
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08-07-2011, 09:22 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | | | | I am sure this is probably a dumb quesiton but after reading the ebay ad what does "shabbinesses and spallings" mean? LOL
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08-07-2011, 09:41 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: long island new york | | | In Russia you don't play Bass! Bass play you! |
08-07-2011, 09:49 AM
|  | I'm just a cover of a real bassist | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: 6.7 m (22 ft) below sea level | | | To me it looks like the decimal point was misplaced: $30,- would be more suitable! |
08-07-2011, 09:51 AM
|  | Purveyor of fine sawdust | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: LaGrange, Georgia | | | Leave it to the Russians to build a plastic bass. LOL! Good wall hanger! |
08-07-2011, 10:19 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: South Jersey | | Would be infinitely cooler with a cyrilic lettered name on the headstock
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08-07-2011, 10:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: NOLA | | | The wonderful Ampeg Baby Bass is made out of plastic. |
08-09-2011, 07:14 PM
| | | Ha-ha, a fine instrument brought to you by the country who put the man in space, LOL.
In USSR musical instruments were made by furniture factories as an afterthought (just so they could say that it's available and then people had to learn to be a luthier to level frets, adjust necks, do the impossible to make them play - and they did!). there's no such thing as a fine instrument from that era (or now AFAIK), unless it was hand-made by a local luthier (and then it really doesn't matter where it's made).
I agree - some russian logo on the headstock might've made it cooler, but I don't see much value beyond novelty or wall decor.
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08-09-2011, 07:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Washington, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassguitarthund I am sure this is probably a dumb quesiton but after reading the ebay ad what does "shabbinesses and spallings" mean? LOL | Judging from the look of some of those pics, it means "pretty ratty". |
08-09-2011, 08:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: 40° 45' 21" no. latitude | | | Spallings are a deal-breaker, every time. |
08-09-2011, 09:55 PM
|  | User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Coast | | Probably sounds like a Rickenbacker Lightshow Bass 
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08-09-2011, 09:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | I'd pass. There are a lot of old Russian and Japanese guitars and basses floating around NYC. They are all usually the same price tag and they usually all play like crap. While there are some nice 60s Jap basses (not too many though) I've never played a Russian bass that could play worth anything.
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08-09-2011, 10:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Long Island, NY | | | if it were $70 i'd maybe give it a shot. looks like junk, but fun junk.. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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