Author Topic: Spellbinder Bass (Read 183 times)

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

Greg

hydrargyrum · « **Reply #1 on:** September 24, 2009, 12:05:31 PM »

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

jazzyvee · « **Reply #2 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:58:56 PM »

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

Jazzyvee

viper · « **Reply #3 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.

serialnumber12 · « **Reply #4 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)

llobsterbass · « **Reply #5 on:** September 30, 2009, 08:31:42 AM »

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

lbpesq · « **Reply #6 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

811952 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 01, 2009, 06:21:47 PM »

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

John

viper · « **Reply #8 on:** October 01, 2009, 07:32:33 PM »

811952 - Details please!

811952 · « **Reply #9 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)