The market is down for old Epiphones

Grog · November 10, 2009, 06:08:09 AM

Price is coming down closer to where it should be........ http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/msg/1458561121.html

SKATE RAT · November 10, 2009, 07:05:07 AM

thats a really early one,with the 2+2 head stock.!

Dave W · November 10, 2009, 07:31:58 AM

That was a drastic drop!

Still needs to be reduced, IMHO.

gweimer · November 10, 2009, 08:51:15 AM

Yeah, the meds must have worn off. It's still a few hundred high for the market right now. A year and a half ago, I might have gone with the $1500.

Barklessdog · November 10, 2009, 12:40:55 PM

Does Uwe have one?

Denis · November 10, 2009, 12:47:24 PM

Epi NR Thunderbirds haven't dropped in price though. Saw one at the beginning of the year for $250 and the last one I saw this year went for over $600.

EvilLordJuju · November 10, 2009, 04:16:03 PM

Quote from: Grog on November 10, 2009, 06:08:09 AM
Price is coming down closer to where it should be

Where is the price in the listing? I can't see it. What's this now up for.

The first time i've ever seen the case for one of these old shaped ones IIRC.

uwe · November 10, 2009, 05:00:24 PM

Does Uwe have a Newport? Yes, a later one with batwing headstock in seafoam green. A pretty and well sounding bass, much clearer than any EB-O of the era would be. Don't need another one though, I'm not an Epi completist, I only buy what appeals and is mot in the herd already. Those new Triumph II basses will be my next Epis I guess.

PhilT · November 10, 2009, 05:32:23 PM

Quote from: Denis on November 10, 2009, 12:47:24 PM
Epi NR Thunderbirds haven't dropped in price though. Saw one at the beginning of the year for $250 and the last one I saw this year went for over $600.

This one didn't do so well. The bit about the pickup screws being rusted by sweat might have put a few off.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160374281832

Grog · November 10, 2009, 06:56:11 PM

When I posted it, it said, "The first $1,500.00 takes it............. It looks like they edited that out.

Dave W · November 10, 2009, 07:39:40 PM

I saw the $1500 too. Maybe they've lapsed back into dreamland.

uwe · November 11, 2009, 04:35:37 AM

Quote from: PhilT on November 10, 2009, 05:32:23 PM
This one didn't do so well. The bit about the pickup screws being rusted by sweat might have put a few off.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160374281832

Phil! Do my eyes deceive me or is that one imported US squirrel sodomizing another in your avatar? You guys have a knack for dragging even the most innocent aspects of Creation into your own filthy mire.

Barklessdog · November 11, 2009, 05:43:56 AM

Quote from: uwe on November 10, 2009, 05:00:24 PM
Does Uwe have a Newport? Yes, a later one with batwing headstock in seafoam green. A pretty and well sounding bass, much clearer than any EB-O of the era would be. Don't need another one though, I'm not an Epi completist, I only buy what appeals and is mot in the herd already. Those new Triumph II basses will be my next Epis I guess.

Your batwing headstock one has the early black pickup?

If not, then they are not the same. ;)You can come back to this one down the road.

uwe · November 11, 2009, 06:40:04 AM

My batwing has a real strange, but apparently original pup: A mudbucker sans any screws, it just features holes with some brownish paper/cardboard material underneath. But it sounds much more even than a real mudbucker. No idea what it is or where it came from, perhaps Epi were experimenting.

PhilT · November 11, 2009, 06:49:58 AM

Quote from: uwe on November 11, 2009, 04:35:37 AM
Phil! Do my eyes deceive me or is that one imported US squirrel sodomizing another in your avatar? You guys have a knack for dragging even the most innocent aspects of Creation into your own filthy mire.

It is in fact a very platonic massage