Author Topic: Irwin Guitar on the Bay (Read 310 times)

lbpesq · « **on:** November 05, 2009, 08:17:01 AM »

Check out this one. 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?

jazzyvee · « **Reply #1 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

sonicus · « **Reply #2 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

elwoodblue · « **Reply #3 on:** November 05, 2009, 08:21:38 PM »

I tried enlarging the receipt to see if that would help...I'm still stumped.

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #4 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

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #5 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

sonicus · « **Reply #6 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 ____?

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mike1762 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 07, 2009, 06:13:18 PM »

$85K... not even if it came with the dead guy.

tdukes · « **Reply #8 on:** November 09, 2009, 07:09:00 AM »

I like the other guitar 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)

paulman · « **Reply #9 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

benson_murrensun · « **Reply #10 on:** November 09, 2009, 12:57:55 PM »

I wonder if he'll sell me the strings separately.

keith_h · « **Reply #11 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

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #12 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

lbpesq · « **Reply #13 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

edwin · « **Reply #14 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