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Sweet MTD on bay...Marilyn?
- Thread starter greg
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In the title it says "Never used". Then in the caption below it says the seller played it twice at home. Who only plays a bass "twice at home"... especially when it's an MTD?
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That is a beautiful MTD!!! Too bad it has one too many strings...ja ja ja...
He has only played it twice???? I think I played mine for 8 hours the day I bought it...
He has only played it twice???? I think I played mine for 8 hours the day I bought it...
scubaduba said:
From a selling standpoint, it sounds alot better than to say "I played the ever-loving snot out of it", which is much more likely with an MTD
rulyøngo said:That is a beautiful MTD!!! Too bad it has one too many strings...ja ja ja...
He has only played it twice???? I think I played mine for 8 hours the day I bought it...
Can't be Tom's... no awesome carpet, and Tom ain't a liar. Lots of folks played his Marilyn during his GTG
BurningSkies
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That's not Tom's eBay username. And is anyone sure that's a Marilyn? Don't they ususally say that on the back of the headstock?
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i'm pretty sure that's not a marilyn, and it definitely isn't tom's. it doesn't appear to be chambered, which is the main distinguishing feature of the marilyns. also the body is primavera with a wenge/wenge neck - i believe mike uses alder with maple/ebony for the marilyns.
thats a sweet blackened redwood top though, and a great price! someone should snag it...
thats a sweet blackened redwood top though, and a great price! someone should snag it...
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That bass is not mine, but if my PC hadn't crapped out on me over the weekend, it would have been. 
That looks like the top came from the same billet as my Marilyn #3. Very nice.
That looks like the top came from the same billet as my Marilyn #3. Very nice.
tombowlus said:
???
how does one with so much great gear have an unreliable PC??
just kidding man. Stupid Verizon high speed DSL goes out on me a few times a week. I lost an ebay auction because of that as well.
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albass111 said:???
how does one with so much great gear have an unreliable PC??
I foolishly attempted a BIOS update on a PC that I knew did not take kindly to such procedure. But, in the end, I crammed that new BIOS down its throat, and it seems to be functioning fine. I wonder if my wife had anything to do with this "temporary" glitch?
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Yes, but even if that wasn't pictured, I can guarantee from the pics it's not a chambered model. However, it definitely looks like its top came from the same chunk as Tom's, which is beautiful.BurningSkies said:
Regardless...
That bass looks AWESOME... a GREAT price too, IMHO.
I got the bass today, I haven't stopped playing till now! It looks new like the ad said I could not tell that it has been played at all.
Man, what an instrument. Tone, feel, everything.
One question, what do you use to condition and clean the wood?
Many thanks,
-was3
Man, what an instrument. Tone, feel, everything.
One question, what do you use to condition and clean the wood?
Many thanks,
-was3
