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Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: uwe on June 05, 2012, 03:55:07 PM

Title: "The shape and finish are not really attractive ..."
Post by: uwe on June 05, 2012, 03:55:07 PM
+1 for honesty!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1972-1973-Vintage-Gibson-EB3-Fretless-Frankenstein-Bass-EMG-Schaller-ugly-/280890905280?pt=Guitar&hash=item41666712c0


(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/1972-1973-Vintage-Gibson-EB3-Fretless-Frankenstein-Bass-EMG-Schaller-ugly-/00/s/MTYwMFg1MjM=/$(KGrHqJ,!l!E-cGWife!BP)UFDRs3g~~60_12.JPG)


But come to think of it ...  :-X ... it looks a little like a Wal, ja, like something der Engländer would do ...
Title: Re: The shape and finish are not really attractive ...
Post by: Big_Stu on June 05, 2012, 04:00:56 PM
Yeah, ............. and a blind man running for a bus wouldn't really spot the join on the top horn.  :-\
Title: Re: The shape and finish are not really attractive ...
Post by: uwe on June 05, 2012, 04:02:59 PM
I give him credit for the idea. If execution was a little more gifted it would have still been an ugly bass but endearingly so. Wals are ugly but they are also cute.
Title: Re: "The shape and finish are not really attractive ..."
Post by: Dave W on June 05, 2012, 04:26:46 PM
I wouldn't consider this a Gibson, period.
Title: Re: "The shape and finish are not really attractive ..."
Post by: dadagoboi on June 05, 2012, 06:35:14 PM
Wow, talk about polishing a turd...
Title: Re: "The shape and finish are not really attractive ..."
Post by: TBird1958 on June 05, 2012, 10:24:11 PM
 I think that's what he made the upper horn from......... :rolleyes:
Title: Re: "The shape and finish are not really attractive ..."
Post by: Pilgrim on June 06, 2012, 10:51:47 AM
Question is whether it's a Fender with a modified body, a Gibby frankenbass'd into a Fender, or a $99 kludge.

Or all of the above.
Title: Re: "The shape and finish are not really attractive ..."
Post by: Highlander on June 06, 2012, 01:56:56 PM
Quote from: uwe on June 05, 2012, 03:55:07 PM
... it looks a little like a Wal...

... that's been left too close to the radiator... :o

(phew... he's not blaming me, I think... ;D)