Oh my!

[Hornisse]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160443143076&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT

[Basvarken]

Poor Uwe 

[Hornisse]

I was thinking the same thing!   

[Dave W]

For that estimated overseas shipping charge, you might as well book two coach seats for "Mr. Gibson" and fly it over.

[godofthunder]

Screams fake to me. Different route patterns on the control cavities, diverging neck angles, butt check lower bought. A married piece imho.

[Lightyear]

I was thinking the same thing - TWO serial numbers!?  And I have never seen the controls of the top instrument located where they are.  With the refin, two serial numbers, and the controls I think it is fishy at best.

[godofthunder]

I was thinking the same thing - TWO serial numbers!?  And I have never seen the controls of the top instrument located where they are.  With the refin, two serial numbers, and the controls I think it is fishy at best.

Yeah the two sets of controls are bogus.

[Hornisse]

The necks are angled because of the tuners.  It looks as though a lefty EB6 was grafted to a right handed EB3.  The pots all match too.  Could have been a special order in 1970?  I remember seeing this in Austin back in the 1980's.  Seems like someone went through a lot of effort if it is a fake. 

I think the overseas shipping charges are most likely $450. 

[Grog]

Being a black refin................ it must be worth more than if it were all origional!  
It's still cheaper than any EB-6 I've seen lately..

[exiledarchangel]

Wow, two shortscale basses glued together! Sounds extra-useful! 

[Highlander]

My concern was the cavities, too...

Some of you collectors will be able to correct me here, but why is the colour in the cavity differing from the cherry under the black...?

I've not seen many up close (played a Gibbie cherry 6/12 some years back, also have some good BJH pics of a guitar/bass combo) but someone here must have had a chance to see one, and anyone got a pic of one in their collection for an example...?

Doesn't make sense to have two sets of controls...

If she is the genuine article, that would not be an unreasonable price - a collection and seat on a flight back to the Fatherland would not be unreasonable, compared to that shipping cost...

An LBO brother could make the trip to secure post payment and look after the girlie until she was collected, but only if she were not a "cut-and-shut..."

Yet again... caveat emptor...

[Highlander]

seen these before and have my own pics...


a 1966 mandolin/tenor banjo...

Two distinctly differing builds, but look at the control and scratchplate configuration  - both pretty much spot on the same - anyone can google Mr Page and see the same configuration on a 6/12...

[godofthunder]

Note the paralell necks and no butt crack in the pics Kenny posted.

[Hornisse]

Ace's old Doubleneck has the necks a bit skewed, but you can't really see the butt crack.  The only double neck Gibbie with a six string bass I could find was this old gem, and it has a six string guitar on bottom.

[Highlander]

I spotted that one earlier too, Robert, but I suspect that the divergence is due to the shot being taken with a wide angle lens (I think) with the neck coming towards the lens, hence the divergence in the necks - they have necks that are pretty much parallel from all the images I've seen...


also found this Gibson variant as I was trawling with two sets of controls, but below each neck pair...

Hold on a moment... hasn't this been up for sale before...?