| Author | Message | ||
| inthelows
Intermediate Member Username: inthelows Post Number: 142 Registered: 11-2006 |
Says Alenbic style body.. check out the controls! NLP link | ||
| flaxattack
Senior Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 1285 Registered: 4-2004 |
sweet lbesq will love it | ||
| jalevinemd
Senior Member Username: jalevinemd Post Number: 536 Registered: 12-2003 |
Body is actually nicely contoured, but that has to be the ugliest headstock I've ever seen! | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1826 Registered: 7-2004 |
Flax: I'm trying to find reasons not to love it. So far it's the lack of neck lams, the opening price, and I keep telling myself it's probably really heavy. Considering I just bought my Aria Pro II Rev Sound - spent a week in Key West - a wife and 11 year old to buy presents for this month - a big bill in the near future from the luthier who's working on my Martin - and, or course, someday I'll have to pay off my Further - I'm not actively looking for ways to spend $, if you catch my drift. But yea, it's sweet. Oh, and thanks Jonathan for pointing out the hideous peghead. And the truss rod cover looks a little crude, too. Bill, tgo | ||
| jahnahisti
Junior Username: jahnahisti Post Number: 40 Registered: 9-2005 |
Yeah. Had the potential to be really far out but the headstock just dropped the ball all over the place. Neck seems to be carved just a little to the right of center as well. Could be a nice design if it was cleaned up with a big headstock. | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 2050 Registered: 9-2003 |
Looks like a std. Jackson or Kramer-style inline six peghead that was broken-off then machined to clean-up the edge with the two missing peghead holes redrilled. The string angle between the "B"-string machine and the nut is N/G: it rides on the (high) "E"-string machine spindle. | ||
| keith_h
Senior Member Username: keith_h Post Number: 623 Registered: 2-2005 |
Hey Kevin haven't seen you around for awhile. Keith | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1832 Registered: 7-2004 |
The strings ride the posts on my Series I too, but not as radically.  If you look closely at the bottom point of the carved top, (unknown ebay guitar, not my Series), you'll see that the entire top is shifted to the right in relation to the neck. And the fact that the neck appears to be made of a single piece would make me worry about it staying straight. I'm thinking more and more that this is a garage job by a fairly talented builder with little experience. Very interesting, but with only pictures to judge, this guitar is a pig-in-a-poke. As such, the opening bid of nearly a $1000 is too much IMHO. Bill, tgo | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Junior Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 36 Registered: 10-2006 |
I think it's even scarier than that, Bill. Look at the back shot. It's hard to be sure from the picture, but it looks to me like the neck is 2 or maybe even 3 pieces - THE WRONG WAY! Just north of the body, the wood changes color and the grain switches orientation 90° - looks like a splice transverse to the neck. Then, about halfway from the body to the (dogsh*t ugly) headstock, it seems to change again. A shame - the body is pretty cool. Peter | ||
| olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 962 Registered: 2-2006 |
Peter I do beleive you're right. I nevered even noticed that until you poined it out. | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 2052 Registered: 9-2003 |
Bill: your strings barely touch the string posts directly underneath...the "B" on this thing WRAPS almost 180 degrees around the underlying machine post and changes direction! Peter: looks like this thing either got two or more neck joints (it takes quite a lot of wood to make a neck-through) or maybe (part of the) neck was replaced. Maybe he had an old Kramer, Charvel or Gibson Explorer-(or other) clone that became a donor so this thing could have "Neck-through" construction. | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1836 Registered: 7-2004 |
I'm thinking that the neck might be thinner than the body and the back center piece is a cap over the neck piece. Still, it does appear to have the grain running perpendicular to the neck, rather than parallel. Scary stuff indeed on a neck without any laminates. If it was relisted for a couple of hundred bucks it might be interesting to take a flyer on, but not for $1000. Bill, tgo | ||
| sarsicus
Junior Username: sarsicus Post Number: 30 Registered: 4-2006 |
I think garage job too..... Neck angle is all messed up...look how recessed the bridge is even with the body cut out. The string alignment over the pickup pole pieces is atrocious. The saddles on the bridge are cranked all the way back as are the rough adjustment screws for each bridge stud. Actually the string alignment on the neck is awful as well. Nut spacing looks bad too-much bigger gaps between treble strings than bass strings, maybe that's the picture though. The three piece neck is killin me. I'm so mean. The shape is cool though. | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Junior Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 37 Registered: 10-2006 |
I dunno, Bill - the front of the neck in the body looks the same as the back, so it would have to be capped on both sides. And if it were a cap, I'd expect it to stop at the joint. I still think splice(s). Not even for a couple hundred. Peter | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 997 Registered: 12-2002 |
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| cozmik_cowboy
Junior Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 44 Registered: 10-2006 |
OK, Keavin, what is it? (Other than cool) Peter | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 1000 Registered: 12-2002 |
It's a "Stambaugh" http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81832&page=322 | ||
| inthelows
Advanced Member Username: inthelows Post Number: 311 Registered: 11-2006 |
It's back..round 2. The poor thing is having it's problems.. NLP NEW LINK | ||
| alembic_doctor
Intermediate Member Username: alembic_doctor Post Number: 136 Registered: 8-2002 |
That is what I used to refer to as a "School Guitar". When I was a slave at Guitar Center Phoenix, we used to get these meth head kids from the luthier school coming in at the end of every semester. They'd bring in their concoction and ask us to buy it for many thousands of dollars because it was "hand-made". Most of looked like it too. I can tell this one was made by a student luthier because the fantastic finish on the headstock. and judging from all of the wiring that went into it, I'd have to say the creator was probably a tweaker as well. Another unsolicited $0.02 | ||
| apdavis
Member Username: apdavis Post Number: 69 Registered: 5-2004 |
"Fantastic finish" Ha ha! |
