What is that...thing?!

Don't do it. Looks like a nightmare in my opinion.

 

It's an interesting piece of folk art.

- Steve

 

It looks like outsider art to me.

 

I bet you it wouldn't even burn.

 

That looks a lot like an aluminum bass I played in middle school.

 

I offered five bucks, just for larfs.

 

Not if he runs it through a wood chipper first.

Seller responded with glowing praise for the instrument, which is currently the principal decoration of his living room, and refuses to accept a penny less than $400 plus shipping.

A luthier friend is convinced its early American but not of the Yankee school.

 

It's just folk art now, not an instrument.

 

Early American but not Yankee? Are we witnessing the glory that is a Native American bass?

 

Looks like a "church bass"

 

Hi.

+1

If I didn't live as far from US as I do, I would've bought the one a kind TBer offered me (church basses don't exist here).

The shipping would have been a murder though, so I had to pass.

A word of caution for anyone stumbling onto this thread when looking a church bass though.
Those church basses seem to vary A LOT in size, so even if the looks of a full size DB may be there, You are possibly looking at 1/8 or 1/2 bass or even 1/2 cello size if the photographer don't care to offer any size comparison.

I would just love to find one for cheap and turn it into a busking bass.


Regards
Sam

 

That is very special.

 

Those strips are rib protectors so they don't get worn when placed on the ground.