Author Topic: Doug Irwin on Craigslist (Read 143 times)

staemius · « **on:** May 15, 2010, 01:53:43 PM »

Just a touch out of my price range - but a beauty guitar:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/msg/1739438434.html

sonicus · « **Reply #1 on:** May 15, 2010, 02:14:08 PM »

I saw that. The price is a bit high!

Doug Irwin did some custom mods for me back in the 1970's and he once let me take one of his Bass's that he made to a gig to try out. He gave me the option of buying it for about 34 times less then this guitar is selling for now. It was a very generous offer but I was a bit on the financially tapped side at the time (tuition for school ) and decided to pass on the offer, O WELL ! _ LOL___

(Message edited by sonicus on May 15, 2010)

sjhoffma · « **Reply #2 on:** May 16, 2010, 07:07:01 PM »

Is that an original Irwin guitar? It looks to me like it could be a just as well be a highly modded Les Paul custom. I know he did a lot of custom modification work in those days.

sonicus · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2010, 08:50:17 PM »

I went to Doug Irwin's shop various times and I remember seeing a Les Paul shape guitar being built fresh from raw stock .

This was a popular shape for other various builders as well at this time .