Vintage fretless ripper on the 'bay Should I go for it ?

[Highlander]

I do look quite uncomfortable don't I ?

Hemorrhoids...? 

Congrats... just ignore that cheeky German fellow, and me, for that matter... I saw that one up before you linked it...

The answer on my RD (maple neck with BLACK dot markers, courtesy of a certain Peter Cook) was dark strip where the frets once were, and most people think it's still fretted...!

[godofthunder]

Should be here Friday !

[Highlander]

 

[godofthunder]

It's here........................ Not bad, a few things I need to discuss with the seller.

[godofthunder]

The worst of it is that the Pickguard is not original and busted up by the input jack  and the Gibson bridge that was included is black   none of this disclosed in the auction. I have it set up and it plays great, the pups are typical Ripper, weak as kittens

[godofthunder]

I did a quick clean and set up and installed the black bridge   I am pretty happy with this I just may keep it. Anyone want to swap a black bridge for chrome ?

[Hornisse]

Still a smokin' deal at 6 bills.

[godofthunder]

 I agree, buying this was a leap of faith, after all the seller posted one picture   . As a ebayer I try to point out every flaw, that the seller didn't disclose that the guard was damaged and the bridge is wrong bugs me. I emailed him several time to answer some questions, he never responded. He is a new seller so I am not going to slam him but I will point out  that if you are going to list something you need to do a better job of describing it. I take half the blame as I bought it on faith........................................shows you how far that goes. At least the truss rod was unmolested.

[patman]

Be happy...if it plays well, that should be a keeper for life.

[hollowbody]

I'm surprised that he left out the part about the Black Epi bridge and the broken pickguard.  When it was listed locally both of those things were mentioned.   I almost pulled the trigger but I'm glad it went to a good home.

[godofthunder]

New three ply guard on the way for $29 bucks, Now all I need is a bridge.   Oh crap the original is 5 ply, oh well what do you want for $29 bucks ?

[saltymonkey]

Hey Scott, no posts but here's a chrome bridge on ebay for $39.00 BIN.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330418245040&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_2204wt_1250

[godofthunder]

 Thanks I saw that.......................looks bent from the pictures. I'll wait for a complete one.

[uwe]

Scott, as you don't like the three point anyway, why not put a Hipshot Supertone on it. It will certainly give you a smoother, more ondividual string coherent action. And yes, you may order one in chrome. 

What interests me more though: Are the dots/markers in the right place, re at where the fret would be or in the middle as with a fretted bass. Speak up, ja?!!!

[godofthunder]

Uwe, When  I fret the Low G at the 3rd fret on the E string the dot is right there, I checked it with the open G. Same for the A at the 5th fret on the E string, I am right on the side dot and I checked it with the open A. Make sense ?