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Title: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: Barklessdog on August 07, 2008, 01:34:58 PM: You know no collection is complete without one!

I wonder if you could even ship it overseas??

You might have to paddle it across.

Last one I saw for sale was for like $29,000 or some wild price for the Gibby version.
http://cgi.ebay.com/KALAMAZOO-GIBSON-4-STRING-BASS-GUITAR_W0QQitemZ220265482192QQihZ012QQcategoryZ118979QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: uwe on August 07, 2008, 01:55:48 PM: It's kind of tempting even though it's just a Kalamazoo and not a Gibbie. You could make something beautiful out of it and its not beyond repair.

Uwe
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: Barklessdog on August 07, 2008, 02:02:47 PM: I would love to see your band's faces if you showed up with that!
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: Dave W on August 07, 2008, 02:33:33 PM: Quote from: Barklessdog on August 07, 2008, 02:02:47 PM
I would love to see your band's faces if you showed up with that!

I'd love to see his luthier's face! :o

It's not beyond repair, but it's a Kalamazoo. Not chipboard as in the 60s, but they probably cut corners in materials and construction techniques compared to a Gibson.
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: eb2 on August 08, 2008, 12:24:54 AM: The Kalamazoo (back then) was real close to the Gibson Mando bass. Binding, and probably lower grade top wood is the significant difference. The comparison between the two marques in the pre-war era is more like Gibson vs Epiphone in the early 60s. That being said, Gibson Mando basses used to turn up pretty frequently in the 80s usually in the $1000 range. Like the EB6, a lot of people would own them for a while, and then start to think of basses they could have bought with the money and actually played.
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: nofi on August 11, 2008, 09:51:23 AM: i would really like to play one. it is the best of both worlds, gigantic body and frets. :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: Dave W on August 11, 2008, 01:39:39 PM: Less than 8 hours now and we'll see if Uwe has put in a bid.
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: Chris P. on August 12, 2008, 04:38:31 AM: My guess is he has his little palmtop computer on 24/7:)
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: Barklessdog on August 12, 2008, 05:07:56 AM: $1300 was a steal if one really wanted one and could not afford a Gibson version.

Tsk Tsk- this could of been Uwe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_7k0VjLY2w&feature=related
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: Dave W on August 12, 2008, 07:31:15 AM: Quote from: Barklessdog on August 12, 2008, 05:07:56 AM

Tsk Tsk- this could of been Uwe

That's okay, he would have had a hard time sourcing kangaroo gut strings.
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: Barklessdog on August 12, 2008, 08:34:01 AM: I don't know about that, they have our dog on Kangaroo food. Now he is hopping around like crazy!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Fenderbird/Basenjis/air.jpg)

http://us.iams.com/iams/en_US/jsp/IAMS_Page.jsp?pageID=PL&productID=104
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Ingredients
Oat Flour, Kangaroo, Canola Meal, Animal Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Dried Beet Pulp, Fish Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Dicalcium Phosphate, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Choline Chloride, DL-Methionine, Potassium Chloride, Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Potassium Iodide, Cobalt Carbonate), Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate [source of Vitamin B1], Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Riboflavin Supplement [source of Vitamin B2], Inositol, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride [source of Vitamin B6], Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid)
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: Dave W on August 12, 2008, 01:41:24 PM: Oat and kangaroo? Yum! :puke:
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: TBird1958 on August 12, 2008, 02:23:21 PM: Can you imagine his breath after he eats...........Probably knock a buzzard off of a **** wagon!
I really do love dogs....... :)
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: Barklessdog on August 12, 2008, 02:31:14 PM: I keep his teeth brushed once week with chicken flavored tooth paste!!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Fenderbird/Basenjis/toothy.jpg)

Yummm taste like chicken!

Luckily, he like to have it done.
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: TBird1958 on August 12, 2008, 03:47:15 PM: "Yummm taste like chicken!"

John are you using his toothpaste? ........... ???

Not surprised that you'd brush his teeth tho, I seem to recall your trips to the vet for this as being rather adventurous.
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: Barklessdog on August 13, 2008, 05:02:16 AM: He just hates to have his toe nails trimmed, anything else he's fine, shot blood samples, anything but those nails. That sets him off!

Look whats under the blanket!
Surprise!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Fenderbird/Basenjis/surprise.jpg)

He's actually been pretty mellow the last three years (he's 7 now).
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: TBird1958 on August 14, 2008, 01:26:21 PM: His name oughta be Bitey............little fugger's always showing his teeth.

+1 on the toenail trim tho, I hate having mine done too. ;)
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: Barklessdog on August 15, 2008, 04:11:51 AM: He's mellow now for the most part.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Fenderbird/Basenjis/grass-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Mando bass going cheap?
Post by: uwe on August 19, 2008, 03:39:42 AM: "He's mellow now for the most part."

A euphemism for being neutered? :o :o :o