Gibson Kalamazoo???

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:33 am

local craigslist
http://tulsa.craigslist.org/msg/1019884341.html

ebay results
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-60s-Kalamaz ... dZViewItem

WUT IS!!!

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:01 am

it';s like a shittier maeldoay makkkr

Will · Post by **Will** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:51 am

I had one - it sucked.

Jagermeister · Post by **Jagermeister** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:20 am

Weren't they made of recycled clipboards...

They look cool, though.

Will · Post by **Will** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:44 am

Jagermeister wrote:Weren't they made of recycled clipboards...

They look cool, though.

It's compressed sawdust and glue. LITERALLY. The bodies were made at the harmony factory in Chicago IIRC.

The best thing I can say about it is that it convinced me to buy a Duo-Sonic II.

Lucamo · Post by **Lucamo** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:04 am

Sorry to dig up such an old thread...

But I wanted to see if you guys thought 199 is a good deal on one of these? They seem to be shitty, but also seem to have boatloads of character.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:52 am

NO

HORRIBLE

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:26 pm

they look quite cool...

http://www.vintageguitar.com/features/b ... p?AID=3346

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:48 pm

Great looking pieces of shit.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 4:34 pm

Richard wrote:Great looking pieces of shit.

that could be Gibsons new strap line... "Gibson: Great looking pieces of shit"

holyCATS1415 · Post by **holyCATS1415** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:19 pm

i played ONE that was amazing. all the other ones i have touched have been garbage.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:26 pm

when the fucking neck is that far above the body red flags should go up with giant WTFs and FUCK THIS SHIT painted all over them

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 6:54 pm

robroe wrote:when the fucking neck is that far above the body red flags should go up with giant WTFs and FUCK THIS SHIT painted all over them

Agreed. It looks like the strings are like a mile away from the body!

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:30 pm

kalamazoo organs were great. some were branded gibson though:

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:57 pm

I have a kalamazoo model one amp that's pretty cool like. they were also part of the gibson budget line. it's a little 5 watt tube amp like a fender champ or somefink.

mine is in much worse condition than this one. when I got it the speaker was deteriorating. I replaced the speaker (10") when I was at THD and it sounds pretty cool now. awesome trashy 60s garage rock tonez.

cooter · Post by **cooter** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:40 pm

Lucamo wrote:Sorry to dig up such an old thread...

But I wanted to see if you guys thought 199 is a good deal on one of these? They seem to be shitty, but also seem to have boatloads of character.

Those have Gibson melody maker pickups in them. The pickups would probably bring $75 bucks each. The necks are pretty well made. Really, the body and the tuners are the only things that are crappy. I've had two of them (had being the key word here) but $199 doesn't sound like a bad price.