| Author | Message | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 4140 Registered: 7-2004 |
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
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 1754 Registered: 6-2002 |
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
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 476 Registered: 5-2009 |
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
Senior Member Username: elwoodblue Post Number: 877 Registered: 6-2002 |
I tried enlarging the receipt to see if that would help...I'm still stumped.  | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 585 Registered: 10-2006 |
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
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 587 Registered: 10-2006 |
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
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 482 Registered: 5-2009 |
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 ____????? | ||
| mike1762
Advanced Member Username: mike1762 Post Number: 382 Registered: 1-2008 |
$85K... not even if it came with the dead guy. | ||
| tdukes
Intermediate Member Username: tdukes Post Number: 171 Registered: 4-2008 |
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
Advanced Member Username: paulman Post Number: 392 Registered: 2-2005 |
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
Intermediate Member Username: benson_murrensun Post Number: 190 Registered: 5-2007 |
I wonder if he'll sell me the strings separately. | ||
| keith_h
Senior Member Username: keith_h Post Number: 1433 Registered: 2-2005 |
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
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 588 Registered: 10-2006 |
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
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 4149 Registered: 7-2004 |
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
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 461 Registered: 5-2002 |
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 | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 589 Registered: 10-2006 |
People generally don't search DR, but everybody who searches Gibson or Fender will hit on these. Another method I've seen used is to list as something like "Alembic not Martin Guild Fender Gibson Teisco". I wonder how many times you have to say "I have no proof Jerry owned it" before people start assuming Jerry owned it. If I may steal a line from Lewis Black, "Where does one get a drug to make one so deluuuusional?" Peter |
