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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: gregduboc on September 24, 2009, 07:35:23 AM

Title: Spellbinder Bass
Post by: gregduboc on September 24, 2009, 07:35:23 AM

I know it is not an Alembic, but I think it is worth some attention!
 Spellbinder Stanley Clarke #35 (http://cgi.ebay.com/Spellbinder-Stanley-Clarke-Bass-Guitar-Only-100-MADE-35_W0QQitemZ230380817842QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item35a3c44db2&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_500wt_1182)
 
Greg

Title: Spellbinder Bass
Post by: hydrargyrum on September 24, 2009, 12:05:31 PM

$8000!  Hard to believe, but to each their own.

Title: Spellbinder Bass
Post by: jazzyvee on September 28, 2009, 09:58:56 PM

Didn't sell and has been relisted at the same price.
 
Jazzyvee

Title: Spellbinder Bass
Post by: viper on September 29, 2009, 04:31:00 AM

Only $4500 this time - starting bid that is! So what is this bass realistically worth? Thanks Ron.

Title: Spellbinder Bass
Post by: serialnumber12 on September 29, 2009, 05:38:21 AM

When it was all said & done..........Aint nothing spellbinding about those basses!  
 
(Message edited by serialnumber12 on September 29, 2009)

Title: Spellbinder Bass
Post by: llobsterbass on September 30, 2009, 08:31:42 AM

Stanley Clarke is one of my great bass heroes, but that thing is just butt-ugly

Title: Spellbinder Bass
Post by: lbpesq on September 30, 2009, 09:36:09 AM

The design isn't even all that original.  Here's a Daion Savage circa 1978-82.  Look familiar?
 
Bill, tgo
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/71004.jpg)

Title: Spellbinder Bass
Post by: 811952 on October 01, 2009, 06:21:47 PM

The three original Spellbinders that I've played were absolutely awful instruments...
 
John

Title: Spellbinder Bass
Post by: viper on October 01, 2009, 07:32:33 PM

811952 - Details please!

Title: Spellbinder Bass
Post by: 811952 on October 02, 2009, 06:02:35 AM

It's been years ago, like '84-'85.  Guitar Center (or Bass Center maybe?) on Ventura Blvd. had several of them pass through, and of course I made it my mission to play everything in that place.    They felt and sounded like cardboard.  Thin, light body mated to a tiny neck.  Not enough mass or stiffness though..  Think of it as the opposite of an Alembic.
 
John
 
edited to add:  If I didn't have to rely on it as my primary instrument, I'd still love to have one just for cool factor..
 
(Message edited by 811952 on October 02, 2009)