1982 G-3

[uwe]

Given the late year, that CAR fin is probably the real thing.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1982-American-Gibson-Grabber-3-G-3-BASS-GUITAR-w-case-/360286709378?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Guitar&hash=item53e2c2e682

Only second one I see with maple board though - CAR fin G-3s tend to have ebony boards. This is still different from other previous maple board G-3s in that it has a more durable three piece maple neck without the usally grafted headstock (the ebony board ones came with the classic one piece maple neck plus grafted headstock).



However, bad to appalling photographs do the item no favors whatsoever.

[jumbodbassman]

never saw a g-3 in maple.  maybe a modified grabber???

[Highlander]

Does this count as a difference in model and not a "fin" issue, my Lord of the Dark Side...?


Uwe: It doth, wood is wood and color is color.

Understood, my Lord...

[uwe]

never saw a g-3 in maple.  maybe a modified grabber???

Unclear and impenetrable like the thoughts of the Dark Side the question is. What is meant, body or neck? Rippers, Grabbers and G-3s all at one time a phase had in which built of alder their bodies were, not of maple, young Padavan! More prevalent maple body G-3 are than those of alder their bodies are made of. Reconsider and rephrase his question he must. A wrong question never to a righteous path lead it can.  

[Denis]

Hahaha, Uwe, that's awesome!

[exiledarchangel]

Wood color doesn't matter as much as hardware color, me thinks.

[uwe]

They do look different, don't they?

[exiledarchangel]

Yes, the one on the left has a little guitar built-in.

[Highlander]

Just the titles, my Lord, just the titles...

[uwe]

Over knee boots never looked better on any man. Fräulein Rommel excepted of course.

[Highlander]

Oh, so glad I saw his last tour with them, right up fron at the Hammy O...

[uwe]

Yes, limeys under proper Germanic instruction can do a thing or two.

[Highlander]

Has anyone ever effectively answered the question of why they did not keep going after Dunkirk, otherwise I would most certainly be speaking German... mind you, that means my mum and dad would probably still be up on the Island... dad didn't get called up until after the end of June that year... (classic shot btw)


one of the best alternates I've read... one of my literary heroes...

[dadagoboi]

one of the best alternates I've read... one of my literary heroes...

Mine too!  "Do Androids DReam of Electric Sheep?"  tops "Blade Runner" in my estimation and it's my fave Sci Fi movie.

[uwe]

Hitler never had a serious intention of conquering Great Britain - he wrote already in Mein Kampf that a downfall of the Empire would not benefit Germany which had no interest in overseas colonies (the Lebensraum was east ...), but only the comparative "upstarts" Japan and the USA which would then simply assume control in the void left by the Empire. He also regarded the British "race" as largely "Aryan" (also in Mein Kampf), albeit unfortunately infested with the dark powers of "world jewry".

Dunkirk was an extended hand to the UK to enter into armistice talks with full honor intact. Hitler did not want an England too weak for fear of a crumbling Empire. When that failed, there were no serious plans in the cupboard to invade and occupy England - neither the German Army nor the Kriegsmarine nor the Luftwaffe were geared for a large scale invasion from the sea, they were forces created solely for and to support land wars. Rather Hitler believed that the U-Boat embargo and the London Blitz would bow GB into submission and once again into the entering into peace talks, effectively ceding Continental Europe to the Third Reich and leaving the Empire unscathed.  It didn't work that way, but Churchill saw the danger that it could and he farsightedly kept England long enough in the war unconquered for Japan to attack the US and the US then enter WW II.

The Third Reich, for all its inherent evilness, did not even bother to occupy France in full, much less would it have occupied the Brit Isles which are - let's face it - strategically irrelevant for control of the Continent. Well, at least we had the Channel Islands which you guys, adding insult to injury, did not even reconquer after D-Day but simply circumvented until Germany capitulated.