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Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: lbpesq on November 05, 2009, 08:17:01 AM
Check out  this one (http://cgi.ebay.com/Doug-Irwin-guitar-with-Gibson-fender-strings-on-it_W0QQitemZ300362764546QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item45ef041102).  I think it's been around before, I seem to remember the gibson fender strings.  WOW!!!  Normally I wouldn't even dream about spending $85K on a guitar, but with GIBSON FENDER STRINGS I'll have to give this some serious thought!  hehehehehe
 
Bill, tgo  
 
PS:  Does anyone recognize the mystery singer, songwriter, dead guy?
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: jazzyvee on November 05, 2009, 05:45:53 PM
Well I'd be interested if the original packaging for the strings were included with the guitar.. ......  I'd hate to spend that much and find  they were not genuine Gibson Fender strings...
 
  :-)
 
 
Jazzyvee
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: sonicus on November 05, 2009, 07:46:29 PM
Ok Bill,
 
 Here is my guess ___mystery singer,  songwriter,  dead guy? (as in deceased?)______it's not Robert Hunter but it might be Michael Bloomfield ????????????????????????
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: elwoodblue on November 05, 2009, 08:21:38 PM
I tried enlarging the receipt to see if that would help...I'm still stumped.
 (http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/72321.jpg)
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on November 06, 2009, 08:05:12 AM
I asked the seller who it was, but he hasn't answered (maybe because I also pointed out that Wolf was not actually an Irwin)
 
Peter
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on November 06, 2009, 12:10:05 PM
Well, he answered.  Allowed as how Wolf was, indeed, born an Alembic, but argued that Doug had changed it so much that he was OK calling it an Irwin.  Didn't ID the other picker (on the receipt it looks like the first name's Brad & the second starts with B.  The line below says Healdsburg, CA, which I presume was where Brad resided)
 
Peter
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: sonicus on November 06, 2009, 12:54:38 PM
Ok  I was completely wrong in post #476   . I did not read the ebay page very carefully. My new guess id is DINO VALENTI  aka Chet Powers aka by many other names . Kind of looks like him in the pic ? maybe _ lol ____?????
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: mike1762 on November 07, 2009, 06:13:18 PM
$85K... not even if it came with the dead guy.
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: tdukes on November 09, 2009, 07:09:00 AM
I like the other guitar (http://cgi.ebay.com/Allan-Thomson-guitar-with-Gibson-Fender-strings-on-it_W0QQitemZ300362767170QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item45ef041b42) listed by this guy. (No, not for $85k, but it looks pretty cool). I couldn't find anything about Allan Thomson. Does anyone know anything about this luthier?
 
Todd.
 
(Message edited by tdukes on November 09, 2009)
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: paulman on November 09, 2009, 12:09:24 PM
If I was a billionaire and money didn't matter anymore, I would so send my hired goons over to this guys house and knock some sense into him!
 
And I would sooooo WANT these guitars.  They are very nice.  
 
Nothing gives a the personal touch you can only achieve with hired goons
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: benson_murrensun on November 09, 2009, 12:57:55 PM
I wonder if he'll sell me the strings separately.
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: keith_h on November 09, 2009, 01:28:12 PM
Notice how they all are supposed to have been built for someone famous but they never seem to have taken delivery? By the way the receipt is only for a case. What proof that it was for the guitar? As far as I'm concerned these are worth the going rate for an every day Irwin, Oasis or Hyak.
 
Keith
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on November 09, 2009, 02:23:30 PM
Hey, you're right, Keith - I hadn't noticed that.  And not only is it for a case, it's for a Calzone case, and the case in his pictures doesn't look like any Calzone I ever saw.  So Brad, whoever he may be, probably isn't our putative famous dead guy.
 
Peter
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: lbpesq on November 09, 2009, 04:47:47 PM
I too take all the it was made for Garcia claims (including the one that accompanied Old #10) with a large grain of salt.  Nevertheless, I would expect a real Irwin guitar to be worth substantially more than an Oasis, Hyak, Dolan, or Becvar.  I suspect there were very few Irwin guitars ever made.  I have one that I'm about 90% sure is an Irwin, but it looks to be more of a highly modified instrument than one he built from scratch.  I also really like the two ebay guitars, but at $85K the seller is dreaming in technicolor HD surroundsound.
 
Bill, tgo
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: edwin on November 09, 2009, 10:29:44 PM
Why the hell does he have to mix up different brands of strings and what's wrong with DRs, anyway???
 
 
:-)
 
Pretty guitars, but he's smoking crack at that price.
 
Edwin
Title: Irwin Guitar on the Bay
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on November 10, 2009, 07:13:48 AM
People generally don't search DR, but everybody who searches Gibson or Fender will hit on these.  Another method I've seen used is to list as something like Alembic not Martin Guild Fender Gibson Teisco.
I wonder how many times you have to say I have no proof Jerry owned it before people start assuming Jerry owned it.
If I may steal a line from Lewis Black, Where does one get a drug to make one so deluuuusional?
 
Peter