Hilfe! Need quick idea how to save spending 8,500 bucks ...

[dexter]

i'm not seeing any picture of this bass , so i've no idea what you guys are talking about , can someone try to post another picture ,
thanks
regards  dexter

[uwe]

http://www.gruhn.com/photo/BG1652.jpg

[dexter]

Uwe thanks for trying , but i can't get this link to work. you'll have to buy it and take pics ,and post them !
sounds like a nice bass anyway

dexter

[Basvarken]

Do you still want us to talk you out of it?

Well let's see:
Do you need another bass?
Does this bass sound drastically different from other basses you have?
What is the chance you will be using it more often than let's say once or twice a year?
Is it a bargain?
Do you have money burning in your pocket?
Did you pay the alimony this month?


Oh well... I give up.
Just buy it, okay?

[Chris P.]

Rob,

You sound like my mother: "Do you need another bass? You can only play one at a time..." (*)

My mother sounds like Wim T. Schippers, so think that voice with it.

[uwe]

I've written Phil Jones an email and he graciously replied, making a fair offer, so I think we have a deal. He has shed a little more light on the bass too:

"This T-bird is the world's only Thunderbird VI. Gibson made a Firebird 1,3,5,and 7,and a T-bird 2,and 4, but there was always a gap, in the numerical series of the instruments. So I made this as a T-bird 6,with ebony fgbd. with block pearl inlay and white binding, gold hardware, and it is the only one of it's kind,in the world. It also has a unique history to it's Korina 9-ply neck through construction. It was originally built in Kalamazoo for the Scorpions band bass player,in 1981, and had an ugly tobacco sunburst on it, which was so ugly, they did not want it. I pulled it from the prototype collection, and kept it near my bench, for the 15 years I was master luthier at Gibson custom shop, in Nashville. I stripped the tobacco finish, got the color out of the grain, and finished it in antique natural, and slowly gathered parts for it. It was my final, and penultimate instrument that I took with me from Gibson,and I was planning to keep it for the rest of my life."

So while I'm not knowingly related to Francis Buchholz (= the Scorpions bass player mentioned), in a way that bass is - to quote a Scorpions song of that particular era - "Coming Home".

[chromium]

congrats- that's absolutely gorgeous!

[Barklessdog]

So its a refin!

What color are you going with?

[uwe]

Silly purple clown burst.

[TBird1958]

It's been done 

Congratulations Herr Moderator. It goes to a fitting home.

[Basvarken]

Gratuliere! A Korina bass sounds like a good idea.
If even the Scorpions thought is was ugly it must have been disastrous


@ Chris:
I was trying to sound like Uwe's mother (in law)

[lowend1]

If even the Scorpions thought is was ugly it must have been disastrous

Ain't THAT the truth!

[Barklessdog]

Nice bass, but dare I say it would look ten times better with black pickups, hardware & pickguard?

[TBird1958]

Please don't tempt him!

You know his *weakness* for black plastic!   

[Chris P.]

Great!! Can't wait to visit you again!!    Great score!!! And the German link is almost too good to be true:)