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Newport - what's up with this thing?
gearHed289:
http://cgi.ebay.com/1968-Epiphone-Newport-Bass_W0QQitemZ320321423815QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item320321423815&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A2|294%3A50
Some kind of neck plate on the back, and cheesy Tiesco style tuners. ???
eb2:
Broken neck (common) repaired with neck plate from something. Original Japanese tuners, as used on Kalamazoo basses, plus many 66-68 EB-0s and extremely rare EB-3s. Fender finger rest. Brutally overpriced.
Dave W:
I've never seen a broken neck repaired with what looks like a plate from a bolt-on neck guitar. No headstock logo. Never saw those tuners on a Newport.
Real Newport? Maybe. Japanese copy with real mudbucker? Maybe. Overpriced even if it's totally legit? You betcha.
eb2:
It has the logo - crummy pic but it is there. I have no doubts it is a real Kalamazoo Epi, just a beat cracked one. I have seen that kind of neck "repair" before, on Gibsons and Gretsches. And sheet rock screws too.
EvilLordJuju:
--- Quote from: Dave W on December 03, 2008, 02:21:05 PM ---I've never seen a broken neck repaired with what looks like a plate from a bolt-on neck guitar.
--- End quote ---
Well rather than broken, just the glue has came unstuck, giving a bit of play. Needs a re-set.
I've had two EBs (one EB3, one EBOF) with slightly wobbly necks that got bolted in the same way.
It is a bad repair; I guess once the cost of re-setting the neck was close to the value of the bass.
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