Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: garyhead on February 07, 2025, 05:41:53 AM
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Saw this on eBay this morning....is this a good deal? No affiliation with the sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/176827140126?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=qvIZyEeASde&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=2ARgH7R5Q8K&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY (https://www.ebay.com/itm/176827140126?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=qvIZyEeASde&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=2ARgH7R5Q8K&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY)
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At $50 it’s a screaming deal, but I doubt it will stay there. I have an old Modulus Blackknife neck on my #1 guitar that I LOVE! I would expect this one to go for at least $500 and maybe more.
Bill, tgo
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Currently $260.
Peter
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That's still pretty cheep for a 7ender replacement neck. Anybody wanna' play 'Price Is Right'.... closest bid without going over?
I bet one of those things is a mean dog to refret... what do you do, epoxy them in I guess?
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I bet one of those things is a mean dog to refret... what do you do, epoxy them in I guess?
well from the pictures the frets look like they still got plenty of meat left on them but i'd ask for closeups just to be sure. i once bought a stienie on ebay that showed up at the house with the fret wires worn below the level of the fingerboard. it got nasty after that, the seller wouldn't take it back because she claimed by my taking the strings off to take pictures of the frets i had "altered" the instrument. i was living in seattle at the time so i took it over to mike lull. he informed me that graphite necks are "special" and it was gonna be spendy. back in 2003 it was $700 to refret it and level the fingerboard, probably twice what it would have cost to refret a wood neck at the time. it was a tuff call. i already had $1200 into the bass. i could tell it had been rode hard and hung up wet. the gig bag it showed up in smelled so strongly of whiskey and vomit, the wife made me keep it in the garage.
that guy was a miracle worker, after the repair that stienie was a tone monster and i never had any problems with it thereafter. somedays i miss that bass :-(
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Well... it looks like it actually has an ebony fingerboard, so maybe no big deal. I've never held one of these BassStar necks in my hands, so I don't know. I do have some experience refretting an ebanol fingerboard. Don't care for that.
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This makes me glad that I picked up the Moses graphite neck for my AlFeMbic (now the AlFeXTeMBoses?!!) or I'd be bidding on this, despite the potential issues. And not that mine doesn't have issues...
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Well... it looks like it actually has an ebony fingerboard, so maybe no big deal. I've never held one of these BassStar necks in my hands, so I don't know. I do have some experience refretting an ebanol fingerboard. Don't care for that.
My Modulus Blackknife neck has a Phenolic fingerboard as, I believe, most if not all of the old Modulus necks sported. It looks black, but Ebony it ain’t.
Bill, tgo
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I bet one of those things is a mean dog to refret... what do you do, epoxy them in I guess?
well from the pictures the frets look like they still got plenty of meat left on them....
Yeah, I'd be far more concerned about the outer layer being worn through on the back of the neck, myself. Looks pretty rough (both idiomatically and literally).
Peter