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Newport - what's up with this thing?

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rockinrayduke:
Worth about half that much?

gweimer:
Well, it ended today with no bids.  I'd say definitely not worth the price.  That repair is something I've also seen done.  My feeling is that it was done by someone not too comfortable with trying to repair a set neck.  Even my old Embassy was slightly off on the angle, and my luthier determined it had always been that way, and wasn't worth trying to repair.

eb2:
In a forthcoming post I will back up that observation as well, but the short version is that I had two Gibson basses from roughly the same period.  My skilled and patient luthier was amused and confused that he was noticing that older Gibson basses had their necks set with no set angle or much attention to detail.  Which maybe plays in with the suggestion that they use the basses to get the new guys up to speed. But better than that poor Epi.

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