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gregduboc
Advanced Member
Username: gregduboc

Post Number: 220
Registered: 11-2008
Posted on Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 7:35 am:   Edit Post

I know it is not an Alembic, but I think it is worth some attention!
Spellbinder Stanley Clarke #35

Greg
hydrargyrum
Senior Member
Username: hydrargyrum

Post Number: 670
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 12:05 pm:   Edit Post

$8000! Hard to believe, but to each their own.
jazzyvee
Senior Member
Username: jazzyvee

Post Number: 1696
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, September 28, 2009 - 9:58 pm:   Edit Post

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

Jazzyvee
viper
Junior
Username: viper

Post Number: 18
Registered: 11-2008
Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 4:31 am:   Edit Post

Only $4500 this time - starting bid that is! So what is this bass realistically worth? Thanks Ron.
serialnumber12
Senior Member
Username: serialnumber12

Post Number: 534
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 5:38 am:   Edit Post

When it was all said & done..........Aint nothing "spellbinding" about those basses!

(Message edited by serialnumber12 on September 29, 2009)
llobsterbass
Member
Username: llobsterbass

Post Number: 62
Registered: 5-2004
Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 8:31 am:   Edit Post

Stanley Clarke is one of my great bass heroes, but that thing is just butt-ugly
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 4111
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 9:36 am:   Edit Post

The design isn't even all that original. Here's a Daion Savage circa 1978-82. Look familiar?

Bill, tgo

811952
Senior Member
Username: 811952

Post Number: 1737
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2009 - 6:21 pm:   Edit Post

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

John
viper
Junior
Username: viper

Post Number: 19
Registered: 11-2008
Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2009 - 7:32 pm:   Edit Post

811952 - Details please!
811952
Senior Member
Username: 811952

Post Number: 1739
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Friday, October 02, 2009 - 6:02 am:   Edit Post

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)

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