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Butchery!!!!
- Thread starter bearhart74
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That's hilarious. People used to cut up instruments all the time. They're just hunks of wood. Nothing to be sad about.
With no date or other info it's too big a risk to be worth the $1200 next bid, but maybe someone will get a good project out if it. Throw the body away and transfer whatever works on it to a new one.
With no date or other info it's too big a risk to be worth the $1200 next bid, but maybe someone will get a good project out if it. Throw the body away and transfer whatever works on it to a new one.
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Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Meh. They probably chopped it up in about 1970.
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Eastwood Pete Shelley Signature Starway Buzzcocks 2007 Red Only 88 Made #20 | Firstone | Reverb
IIRC, Shelley sawed the guitar in half backstage before a gig with the Sex Pistols.
It's up to $2223 now. I don't feel too much about the thing getting a bad mod job, but it does surprise me that people are bidding it up that high. Some high rollers are betting that that the bass actually is legitimately over 45 years old and the parts are original, intact and working, and that the parts can still be pulled and flipped on Reverb for a profit.
not punk enough...the cut is too straight...now if he did it with a broken beer bottle..totally worth it.
More likely some talented con artist will take everything and put it on an expertly reliced body that will match the condition of the other stuff, put some fake scribbles or stamps in the neck pocket and pass it off as an original 64 P. My late friend who took care of my basses for me was well capable of such work. I saw several repairs he did on old instruments with busted up bodies, headstock broken off, etc, and even with a close examination his repairs could not be detected.
A quick search found several 64 P refins over 5K and an original over 18K.
Meh. It's a hunk of wood. When that mod was done, it was probably the mid 70s and "just another bass".
Nobody would be freaked out if that were done to a 2002 P bass.
Nobody would be freaked out if that were done to a 2002 P bass.
With clay dots and that s.n. if legit, it might be a '61 or '62 Precision, and with a restored body and a nice solid color refin would still be $$$$.
There might be a couple bidders with that in mind, but I've been thinking about it and now I suspect that a few people are bidding speculatively on an old Fender bass because they'd heard those are valuable but don't really know much more than that (including what a Precision is and what it's supposed to look like), and they're trusting to luck. I've seen that happen before.
