one off LP

[sniper]

It's not a Gibson bass. A bass made with some Gibson parts isn't a Gibson even if it was made by an employee -- which I doubt it was.

exactly ... I know a guy that has a none-Epiphone, Epiphone one off kind of thingy with a fake Starfire pup. HEHE

[Grog]

Didn't Gibson sell off a bunch of leftover parts when they shuttered the Kalamazoo plant?

I had a contact for years, who's mother worked at the Kalamazoo plant. Many of the former workers must have had tons of spare parts at their homes, & he seemed to know who had what. He was able to locate just about anything I was looking for. He would then ask me to give him a price that I was willing to pay............always took my offer & sent the parts. Then one day he fell off of the map............

[sniper]

I had a contact for years, who's mother worked at the Kalamazoo plant. Many of the former workers must have had tons of spare parts at their homes, & he seemed to know who had what. He was able to locate just about anything I was looking for. He would then ask me to give him a price that I was willing to pay............always took my offer & sent the parts. Then one day he fell off of the map............

Same, same. got a fingerboard and neck from a guy who was selling a bunch of stuff from a warehouse auction of old Gibby/Epi parts in Kali. Went on my first "parts bass" I gave to a kid. Yeah, that is an actual Starfire pup in there and not a Freddy H. pup.

This bass.

[Granny Gremlin]

I am doubtful about the veneer thing due to the binding.  The dude woulda had to have sanded down the top wood, and probably remove the binding, add the veneer and then rebind it.  Too much work when you could just plug holes and refin solid.

Look at this pic:



There is no veneer stepping above the binding.  The pic of the open control cavity is too dark to see any layers in there from what I see.

I would believe the sellers story, but as Dave said, that doesn't make this a Gibson, and it certainly doesn't make it desirable at all (unless you like the result, but it's all kinda of characterless bits) or valuable.  I suspect they took a bound but otherwise unrouted (or just control route) and unfinished body and neck (without fretboard, or replaced it later) home and went to town. Looks like the structural work (fretboard, routing, even the finishing) at least was well done, but that's the only good thing I can say about it.

[Basvarken]

Good point Jake

[drbassman]

exactly ... I know a guy that has a none-Epiphone, Epiphone one off kind of thingy with a fake Starfire pup. HEHE

Sounds like something I'd do in my Frankenstein workshop!   

[chromium]

I am doubtful about the veneer thing due to the binding.  The dude woulda had to have sanded down the top wood, and probably remove the binding, add the veneer and then rebind it.  Too much work when you could just plug holes and refin solid.

Look at this pic:
...

There is no veneer stepping above the binding.  The pic of the open control cavity is too dark to see any layers in there from what I see.

I would believe the sellers story, but as Dave said, that doesn't make this a Gibson, and it certainly doesn't make it desirable at all (unless you like the result, but it's all kinda of characterless bits) or valuable.  I suspect they took a bound but otherwise unrouted (or just control route) and unfinished body and neck (without fretboard, or replaced it later) home and went to town. Looks like the structural work (fretboard, routing, even the finishing) at least was well done, but that's the only good thing I can say about it.

I'd tend to believe that.  Recall all the unfinished neck blanks, headstock veneers, etc... that GreatDealz was selling on Ebay.  I'm sure plenty of stuff like that scurried out of the factory over the years.  This is probably someone's personal project based on those type of parts.