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"The shape and finish are not really attractive ..."
« on: June 05, 2012, 02:55:07 PM »
+1 for honesty!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1972-1973-Vintage-Gibson-EB3-Fretless-Frankenstein-Bass-EMG-Schaller-ugly-/280890905280?pt=Guitar&hash=item41666712c0





But come to think of it ...  :-X ... it looks a little like a Wal, ja, like something der Engländer would do ...
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Re: The shape and finish are not really attractive ...
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2012, 03:00:56 PM »
Yeah, ............. and a blind man running for a bus wouldn't really spot the join on the top horn.  :-\
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Re: The shape and finish are not really attractive ...
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2012, 03:02:59 PM »
I give him credit for the idea. If execution was a little more gifted it would have still been an ugly bass but endearingly so. Wals are ugly but they are also cute.
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Re: "The shape and finish are not really attractive ..."
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2012, 03:26:46 PM »
I wouldn't consider this a Gibson, period.
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Re: "The shape and finish are not really attractive ..."
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2012, 05:35:14 PM »
Wow, talk about polishing a turd...
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Re: "The shape and finish are not really attractive ..."
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2012, 09:24:11 PM »
 I think that's what he made the upper horn from......... :rolleyes:
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Re: "The shape and finish are not really attractive ..."
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2012, 09:51:47 AM »
Question is whether it's a Fender with a modified body, a Gibby frankenbass'd into a Fender, or a $99 kludge.

Or all of the above.
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Re: "The shape and finish are not really attractive ..."
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2012, 12:56:56 PM »
Quote from: uwe on June 05, 2012, 02:55:07 PM
... it looks a little like a Wal...

... that's been left too close to the radiator... :o

(phew... he's not blaming me, I think... ;D)
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