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Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: Grog on July 13, 2013, 05:43:34 AM

Title: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: Grog on July 13, 2013, 05:43:34 AM

It's been almost two years since the JMJ 20/20 sold on Ebay, I haven't seen one since. One popped up & sold on Gbase when I wasn't looking, but that's about it.

http://www.gbase.com/gear/gibson-20-20-ned-steinberger-1987-silver-luna

They never popped up with much frequency before, but it's like they disappeared! Where have all the Fugly basses gone??

Title: Re: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: Dave W on July 13, 2013, 08:13:47 AM

Any idea how many were made?

Title: Re: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: Grog on July 13, 2013, 09:22:18 AM

The consensus on this board was probably less than 100. Walter Carter thought about 12, we figured that to be quite low.............

Title: Re: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: planetgaffnet on July 13, 2013, 01:20:59 PM

I'd play one of those.  No seriously, I would.

Title: Re: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: Dave W on July 13, 2013, 07:22:24 PM

There just about have to be more than 12. But if there were less than 100, then no surprise that you haven't seen any for a couple of years.

Title: Re: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: planetgaffnet on July 14, 2013, 02:12:35 PM

What would be a decent price for one of these,  I wonder?

Title: Re: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: Highlander on July 14, 2013, 03:54:55 PM

No idea on a price but I presume that these are all in the hands of collectors now...

Uwe and Jules have one each... is it Grog that has a brace...?

Title: Re: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: Dave W on July 14, 2013, 05:32:22 PM

Jules paid just under $500 for his, that was over four years ago. Grog paid much less than that for his first one but IIRC quite a bit more for his second.

Title: Re: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: Barklessdog on July 14, 2013, 05:40:30 PM

Back in the closet where they belong ;)

The 80's are making a come back really!

Title: Re: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: Grog on July 14, 2013, 06:13:34 PM

I paid too much for both of them. My Luna Silver one was for sale at Mike's Music for over a year at $1,000.00. I offered him $800.00. I ended up getting it for $900.00, including shipping and a modifiable hard shell case. I think I held the record for over paying for one when I bought the Ferrari Red bass, $1280.00 plus shipping, but it was super clean. The JMJ bass went for about $50.00 more, so I got out of that record! If I would have bought the JMJ bass before his road manager bought it, I think I could have had it for $350.00, they were asking $500.00.

Title: Re: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: Aussie Mark on July 14, 2013, 11:44:37 PM

I think I just found two of them ....

(http://www.abc.net.au/news/linkableblob/4815350/data/ashton-agar-and-phil-hughes-walk-off-trent-bridge-at-lunch-on-d-data.jpg)

Title: Re: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: planetgaffnet on July 14, 2013, 11:51:21 PM

Aaargh! Cricket! My eyes!

Title: Re: Where have all of the 20/20's gone??
Post by: uwe on July 15, 2013, 04:48:18 AM

I believe anybody buying a 20/20 these days is a committed case and will stick (no pun intended) with it without batting (pun intended) an eyelid. They are period pieces by now.