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Hornisse

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Bought a Grabber
« on: June 22, 2009, 05:10:54 PM »
Probably paid a bit too much but I wanted another one after selling my old one several years ago.  Can anyone guess why I may have paid a bit more for it?  :mrgreen: (Uwe will know)



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Re: Bought a Grabber
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2009, 07:15:26 PM »
Uwe sold you one from his collection?

Celebrity owned?

Cleberity lawyer owned?  :mrgreen:
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Re: Bought a Grabber
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2009, 07:25:17 PM »
Skunk strip.
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Re: Bought a Grabber
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2009, 07:35:24 PM »
D'oh! It was staring me in the face!
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Re: Bought a Grabber
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2009, 07:39:49 PM »
Quote from: godofthunder on June 22, 2009, 07:25:17 PM
Skunk strip.

We have a winner!  Uwe does have one of these but his is Pelham Blue with a black finished neck.  The skunk stripe Grabbers are pretty rare.  I've only seen 2 in person and both were mine.  They have a cool straight headstock with a F#nder type nut and adjustment screw under the truss rod cover.  Here is a photo of my old one's headstock.



And here is a photo of a famous user.  ;D


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Re: Bought a Grabber
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2009, 10:40:24 PM »
Nice!
And nice you have the guts to post a Kiss pic.
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Re: Bought a Grabber
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2009, 02:41:47 AM »
I didn't really know that the skunk stripes were more desirable, but they are certainly rare, you don't see a lot of them. Congrats!
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Re: Bought a Grabber
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2009, 03:21:36 PM »
I just like the look of the skunk stripes.  Plus they seem more stable than the 2 piece scarf joint necks on the typical Grabbers.  That pic of Gene was from the original booklet that came with the Kiss Alive LP.
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Re: Bought a Grabber
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2009, 02:34:55 AM »
I didn't know the skunkies did not have a scarfed neck? I can't tell on mine because the neck is black-finned with just a little worn off in the middle to reveal the stripe. Makes sense though from the neck/headstock construction, I just never gave it a real thought. Thanks for elucidating!
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Re: Bought a Grabber
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2009, 06:03:07 AM »
Congrats Hornet!  8)
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Re: Bought a Grabber
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2009, 08:14:12 AM »
One piece neck just like on those, uh, what are they called.......Fender Basses!  ;)

I wrote a letter to Vintage Guitar Magazine's "Ask Gruhn" back around 2000 or so and he and Walter Carter had not ever heard of such a beast.  They wanted me to send better photo's to them but I don' think I was able to do so because of my ancient camera.  I really need to get a better one someday....

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Re: Bought a Grabber
« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2009, 08:50:15 AM »
Quote from: Hornisse on June 24, 2009, 08:14:12 AM
One piece neck just like on those, uh, what are they called.......Fender Basses!  ;)




Thanks for rubbing it in!
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