Is it worth a Million Bucks?

[B-Mac]

It's a publicity stunt that at this rate will be worth a million dollars in free publicity to the builder before long.

You figured out my scheme! I was able to finagle a 1% Commission by starting this thread on a million dollar sale!

 

[B-Mac]

Holy crap, that's 15 minutes from my house

Make a visit!

 

[Bassic Needs]

Unless there is at least 3 million dollars in flawless diamonds in that sound hole, then no it ain't worth it.

 

[vvvmmm]

Let's say ya bought it.

I know, I know, but hypothetically ...

Doya change the strings, and why to flats?

 

[Fender_Bender]

I wonder if any of these hyped up specials have ever been sold. I guess it only takes one to cover their basses for the entire batch. And we know what P.T. Barnum said about a certain type of people who are born every minute (the kind who pay to see the egress). I bid tree fiddy.

 

[StayLow]

I wonder if any of these hyped up specials have ever been sold. I guess it only takes one to cover their basses for the entire batch. And we know what P.T. Barnum said about a certain type of people who are born every minute (the kind who pay to see the egress). I bid tree fiddy.

They're sold to the taxman at actual cost as "advertising expense".

 

[BurningSkies]

"The Tree" is the real deal. It's a stunningly blistered, quilted, and/or veined figure, and completely unique for Honduran Mahogany--or any Mahogany. It is more expensive than Brazilian Rosewood and is highly in demand in the acoustic guitar world. The Tree is quite scarce now (so much so that furniture built from it is being resawn into guitar sets) and a raw back and sides set is worth $2,000-$6,000 depending on the quality of the figure.

A 17" one-piece carved back is indeed special, a unicorn among unicorns, and certainly adds a premium. But between that, the labor necessary to build an archtop, and the Ribbecke reputation, I'd price this at $20,000. $30,000 at the absolute extreme. Any collector will know this as well and won't pay the seller's asking prices. There is a reason these instruments have been listed for years now. They must be trying to get a museum to buy them or something. There is a Parker archtop built from The Tree on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; it even has a neck carved from The Tree and that's rare indeed. But I'm sure the Met didn't pay a million for it.

oh that tree. I guess that's cool enough or whatever.

I'm having a bass made out of Yggrasil, which will be entirely more epic because until you've built a bass from a tree that hung a god, I can't see that you have much more than pretty wood.

 

[TinIndian]

That's ludicrous, "Tree" be darned.

 

[TinIndian]

Logs that have been underwater and salvaged are currently a big thing in acoustic instruments. It's called "sinker" wood, and commands a premium. Mahogany, rosewood, cedar....some are a hundred years old.

Tons and Tons of sinker logs in the Great Lakes. Lots more elsewhere in the country.

 

[SDC1-ClickClack]

yeah it’s probably not too surprising that he only has one piece of feedback

It's an acoustic with a pickup, so of course there'd be feedback.

 

[BurningSkies]

Tons and Tons of sinker logs in the Great Lakes. Lots more elsewhere in the country.

Plenty of sunken lumber. If you go to places like the baltic they're pulling up boats and ships that are thousands of years old with wood that's nearly pristine since it's a low oxygen setting. But yeah, there's sunken old-growth logs all over the place that people have been harvesting.

 

[soulstew]

If only it was a 5 string, I'd be all over it.

 

[GregC]

Dang, tough choice. This or 14,896 Glarrys. That's enough to play a new one every day for nearly 41 years.

 

[Joeynone]

Fingers crossed

 

[MegaSwing]

It’ll end up at a TJ Maxx, like lots of decent but absurdly priced trophies to good taste.

 

[kesslari]

I don't see many basses from Healdsburg guitars here on TB.

 

[fretlessman71]

Just reminding a fellow Rush fan of Neil's R40 "Bog Kit"...

Link, please...

 

[EatS1stBassist]

The Four Elements - The Element Earth Acoustic Bass
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It is beautiful of that there is no doubt....but
The Four Elements - The Element Earth Acoustic Bass
I love ABGs, I really do, but there's a limit...

Oh hell No!”

 

[wmhill]

Briefly, it's a nearly legendary log, Honduran mahogany, with an astronomical value to luthiers. Here's the whole story.
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A while back someone was having a bass built out of some prehistoric wood that was unearthed from deep in a bog.
I can't seem to find the thread now.

 

[Watchootognbout]

Is it louder than a double bass when unplugged?



No?