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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: elwoodblue on August 18, 2011, 02:34:08 AM

Title: '78 series I on ebay
Post by: elwoodblue on August 18, 2011, 02:34:08 AM

This one looks like it might need a new fingerboard at some point soon.  
   Is it delaminating and the crack decided to follow the weakness in the grain as opposed to the glue joint towards the body?  
 
  Poor bass must have seen some serious swings in temp/humidity .
 As  the seller doesn't seem to be a musician and they are getting inaccurate info from their 'repair shop'
 (not a missing binding,and not a Series II),
 I'm guessing that their testing didn't include a blue box or testing with a stereo plug.  
 
 
 ebay link (http://cgi.ebay.com/1978-Alembic-Walter-Johnson4-string-Bass-OHSC-/260836983356?pt=Guitar&hash=item3cbb18823c#ht_967wt_1150 target=_blank)
 
(Message edited by elwoodblue on August 18, 2011)

Title: '78 series I on ebay
Post by: gtrguy on August 18, 2011, 11:10:43 AM

Wow, any sellor describing that kind of damage as 'missing binding' is not being honest.

Title: '78 series I on ebay
Post by: glocke on August 18, 2011, 04:25:03 PM

Wow...this really sold for $2550.00??  last time i checked series I basses were demanding a higher price than that.

Title: '78 series I on ebay
Post by: elwoodblue on August 18, 2011, 04:48:36 PM

glocke,  
are you referring to the other fretless series I the seller has for sale?
 It still has over a day to go, that one will go up before it's ended...no question.

Title: '78 series I on ebay
Post by: glocke on August 18, 2011, 06:22:33 PM

glocke,  
are you referring to the other fretless series I the seller has for sale?  
It still has over a day to go, that one will go up before it's ended...no question.
 
oooops..actually meant to post this in the 76-504 thread.

Title: '78 series I on ebay
Post by: elwoodblue on August 18, 2011, 06:43:56 PM

gotcha  ; ),
 the other fretless just happened to be at 2550,
 
cheers

Title: '78 series I on ebay
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on August 19, 2011, 06:38:05 AM

Seller tells me no power supply; does not respond to info in re it being a SI & losing its fretboard, and neither my question nor the corrections are on the sale page.
 
Peter