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SPELLBINDER BASSES
- Thread starter buaabass69
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JAUQO III-X
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I recently acquired Clarke Spellbinder #018. It was originally delivered April 7, 1981 to a gentleman named Leyland Sklar. I decided since it was in pretty shabby cosmetic condition, frets were shot and much of the small hardware was changed or missing, that it was time to send it back to Tom Lieber in Fly Creek, NY....just 3 hours drive from my home in Yonkers...Tom is a great guy and was happy to see one of his "children" again after so long! He reported to me today that it is fresh out of the spray booth and ready for final sand and polish. To say I am excited is a gross understatement!
This is the last pic before I shipped it up to Tom Lieber. More to come when it gets back home!
This is the last pic before I shipped it up to Tom Lieber. More to come when it gets back home!
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There was one at BassNW a few years ago. I wish i bought it. I think is was selling around the $2000 range. If you call Chad at The Bass Shop in Seattle, he could probably give you a better idea. They are nice basses that never made it.
The Bass Shop | Selected Used and Vintage Bass Guitars
The Bass Shop | Selected Used and Vintage Bass Guitars
These bases were never intended to "make it".....It was predetermined by business partners Stanley Clarke and Tom Lieber that 50 Spellbinders would be cast in 1980 and then the molds destroyed to preserve their value. These basses are composite cast in compliance with patents held by Lieber that pre-date Steinberger and were so far ahead of their time. To play one is to understand how truly amazing they are from their incredibly thin but rock solid structural design to its nutless roller headstock design with zero fret. 26 years later, the Spellbinder II arrived with solid spruce body, maple neckthru and ebony board. Almost identical in size and shape but without the use of composites. Much more mainstream but also great basses.
