One for ze kölleckshün ...

[Dave W]

Aaaand, the winning bidder is Uwe at $2148. Congratulations. 

[Chris P.]

That means I have to visit him again;)

Congratulations Uwe!

[Barklessdog]

The American Peso at it's best!

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Congratulations Herr Köllecktör!

BTW~ I'm gettin' my 53 EB pickup rewound & modernized this week.
It was buzzin' like a mofo. Should finally be playin' on her in about a week!

[uwe]

I think the Phil Jones Prototype from Gruhn was 2.000 or mabe 1.800 at the time, but the Euro was weak back then. Never regretted the purchase, nothing like it ever came up again. This Primavera will complement it nicely, it's the fretted maple bruddah. I thought the way the bidding went up quickly a bit fishy actually -  we very quickly reached 2.OOO which is high for early nineties stuff, but then any competition stopped so I guess I'm still the only real modern day Gibson rarity collector. I'm weird that way, I find it more gratifying to have a strange  nineties prototype than another vintage sixties instrument.Wonder how this one will sound. An all maple construction with the Bart TCT electronics should sound pretty merciless, a Super-Rickenbacker?

Uwe

[Dave W]

What makes you think primavera will sound like all maple?

[SKATE RAT]

congrats again Uwe.now we need to see photos of your whole collection,how many is that now?......................

[doombass]

Congratulations Uwe! IIRC the Phil Jones prototypes at Gruhns were between 2000 and 3000$. They had a LPB-1 proto for 2000$. The DC fretless LP you bought I believe was 3000$ and they also had an LPB-3 at 3000$.

[Barklessdog]

You Phil Jones wing is growing, congrats!

[uwe]

What makes you think primavera will sound like all maple?

I thought it was all maple, it's not? Certainly looked that way to me on the - not very good - ebay pics. Anyway, we will all soon know more after John the Barkless Hound has had it in his paws as it will first be shipped to him.


Uwe

[ZezozeceGlutz]

This thread over on talkbass has a few shots of primavera that have a similar look the the Gibson:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=422789&highlight=prima+vera


Before I saw that yesterday, I thought primavera was just a silly name for the prototype but it looks like they were just naming it based on the wood.

[Barklessdog]

I had no idea that Primavera is a wood?

Primavera    (click here for color image)

Trade or Common Name:  Primavera, white mahogany, prima vera
Local Name: Primavera
Botanical Name: Cybistax donnellsmithii
Family: Bignoniaceae

The Tree:  Primavera is a large rainforest canopy tree, sometimes reaching to 100 feet in the natural rainforest, with a straight clear bole up to 3 or 4 feet in diameter. It has relatively smooth whitish bark and showy yellow flowers in large panicles.

Status:  Primavera is among the very fine cabinet woods of the world, and is becoming increasingly rare within all of its range.

The Wood:  Primavera is a very beautiful wood, sometimes called white mahogany because of its beauty and similarity in appearance to mahogany, except primavera is lighter in color. It is creamy white to yellowish rose, sometimes tinted with pale brown or pinkish stripes. Primavera is very strong, medium texture, with straight to interlocking and wavy grain, sometimes with a ribbon or fiddle-back figure. It has a fairly high luster, is easily dried with little or no degrade, and has excellent polishing and finishing characteristics. Primavera works easily and well with hand or machine tools, and holds nails and screws well.

Looks like quite a score!

Your own rare rainforest wood bass!

[Dave W]

Yes, primavera is a wood from Central America, although I've never heard it called "white mahogany." It's definitely not maple, but IIRC it's no lightweight either.

[uwe]

I stand corrected. I didn't know it was a wood. The ebay description said maple, but of course that is hardly compelling. Primavera wood? Never heard of it, but now I'm curious several times over!!!

Uwe

[uwe]

Wonder if this is one of those "smartwood" experiments were Gibson tried to go ecological, but the public wouldn't have it?

Uwe