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Title: "V" bass
Post by: sniper on June 14, 2010, 12:16:43 PM
the starting bid is certianly reasonable but the model "1's" or D120's look a bit out of place

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320548490128&BackToListReferer=http%3A%2F%2Fmy.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FMyEbayBeta
Title: Re: "V" bass
Post by: godofthunder on June 14, 2010, 12:19:21 PM
Home made body.
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Post by: sniper on June 14, 2010, 12:37:07 PM
i don't have the knowledge or the eye to call one way or another. thanks Scott.
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Post by: leftybass on June 14, 2010, 12:53:02 PM
So clearly a fake it's not even funny. Grabber neck on a home-made body.
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Post by: Dave W on June 14, 2010, 02:05:58 PM
So clearly a fake it's not even funny. Grabber neck on a home-made body.

I'll bet the seller knows it too, even though he's a pawnbroker. Saying "It is marked G-3 on the headstock" gives him an out if an unsuspecting buyer finds out it's a fake. He's just reporting what the marking states.
Title: Re: "V" bass
Post by: Hornisse on June 14, 2010, 02:30:06 PM
It does have an old Charvel/Jackson bridge.  Could the body be one of the Charvel ones they used to sell back in the 70's?  I had a Dimarzio Explorer bass body before. 
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Post by: Basvarken on June 14, 2010, 03:00:47 PM
Can't believe nobody has said it yet: It's ugly.
The body is missing the "shoulders" at the neck joint.

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Post by: dadagoboi on June 14, 2010, 05:55:47 PM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220622346832

Relisted with corrected description.
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Post by: gearHed289 on June 14, 2010, 09:03:21 PM
A bad idea that was poorly executed.  :puke: :puke: :puke:
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Post by: Dave W on June 14, 2010, 09:47:23 PM
It would be worth the 99 cent opening bid if it weren't for the $29.99 shipping.
Title: Re: "V" bass
Post by: dadagoboi on June 15, 2010, 02:05:37 AM
It would be worth the 99 cent opening bid if it weren't for the $29.99 shipping.

parts is parts...what's the neck, tuners, pups worth?
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Post by: Highlander on June 15, 2010, 02:08:59 AM
Mmm... MB1 pups... ;D
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Post by: exiledarchangel on June 15, 2010, 09:40:04 AM
Can't believe nobody has said it yet: It's ugly.

Ofcourse it's ugly. It's a flying-vee after all! :P
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Post by: uwe on June 15, 2010, 10:03:22 AM
Spare no Greek!

(http://www.recordsale.org/cdpix/t/the_michael_schenker_group-assault_attack.jpg)

Such beauty, especially with blond long hair and matching over-knee boots:

(http://www.beatsworking.tv/UFO/actionMichael.jpg)

Title: Re: "V" bass
Post by: Barklessdog on June 15, 2010, 11:10:04 AM
I like this one

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Fenderbird/Musicians/76_12_hot20tuna_01.jpg)

The unknown Gibson V, wonder where it went?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Fenderbird/Large-Flying-V.jpg)
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Post by: nofi on June 15, 2010, 12:58:13 PM
i saw that version of hot tuna. they make a very bad hard rock band.
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Post by: Hornisse on June 15, 2010, 02:29:41 PM
I tried (but failed) to find a photo of the bassist with The Bottle Rockets.  Right around the time of "Radar Gun" he was playing a funky Flying V bass with a Fender Jazz Bass neck.
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Post by: Basvarken on June 15, 2010, 02:54:04 PM

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Fenderbird/Musicians/76_12_hot20tuna_01.jpg)


That creature is hilarious. A spaceship!
A Flying T(bird) ?
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Post by: Dave W on June 15, 2010, 07:07:48 PM
I tried (but failed) to find a photo of the bassist with The Bottle Rockets.  Right around the time of "Radar Gun" he was playing a funky Flying V bass with a Fender Jazz Bass neck.

That was Tom Ray. He left sometime before Brand New Year. IIRC it was a Warmoth body.
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Post by: exiledarchangel on June 16, 2010, 12:06:49 AM
That creature is hilarious. A spaceship!
A Flying T(bird) ?

No, its a crossbreed between a shovel and a broom really! :P

Now, where's the closest bunker to hide...
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Post by: gearHed289 on June 16, 2010, 07:21:25 AM
That was Tom Ray. He left sometime before Brand New Year. IIRC it was a Warmoth body.

Super nice guy. We cross paths on occasion. I made him a case for his 70s T-Bird about a year ago.
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Post by: Dave W on June 16, 2010, 08:30:15 AM
Super nice guy. We cross paths on occasion. I made him a case for his 70s T-Bird about a year ago.

I saw him on TV not so long ago, playing upright. May have been with Neko Case.
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Post by: leftybass on June 16, 2010, 09:25:18 AM
No, its a crossbreed between a shovel and a broom really! :P

Now, where's the closest bunker to hide...

More like a cross between a Guild bass(neck, pickups) and a home made body.
Title: Re: "V" bass
Post by: Big_Stu on June 16, 2010, 12:44:28 PM
Mmm... MB1 pups... ;D

Any chance he could line up just one of the strings with the poles before shipping? Just one string, any string, I'm not fussy ......
Title: Re: "V" bass
Post by: gearHed289 on June 17, 2010, 07:26:16 AM
I saw him on TV not so long ago, playing upright. May have been with Neko Case.

Yeah, that's been his gig as of late.