What's this Strat-shaped Gibson?
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:14 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:21 pm
From the serial no., 93300xxx, it was made on the 330th day of 1990.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:45 pm
I was gonna guess late 80's, I think it is over priced, I have seen them on craigslist here in the states for less than $600NickS wrote:From the serial no., 93300xxx, it was made on the 330th day of 1990.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:44 pm
Gibson U-2 variant? Dr Know in Bad Brains used one but his had a pointy headstock.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:51 pm
good pics and details for an '89 in scumbag silver sprakle here:
http://www.eddievegas.com/store/details ... -STRAT.php
http://www.eddievegas.com/store/details ... -STRAT.php
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:03 am
wow, that one went for $2250?..crazy...either the ones I saw recently were not that rare special edition or uneducated sellers...... I have a feeling the were a bit different as they were on CL for eva.....hotrodperlmutter wrote:good pics and details for an '89 in scumbag silver sprakle here:
http://www.eddievegas.com/store/details ... -STRAT.php
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:26 am
Comes from owning Kramer, I'd imagine.
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:30 am
They're rare, possibly a collectors purchase.SGJarrod wrote:wow, that one went for $2250?..crazy...either the ones I saw recently were not that rare special edition or uneducated sellers...... I have a feeling the were a bit different as they were on CL for eva.....hotrodperlmutter wrote:good pics and details for an '89 in scumbag silver sprakle here:
http://www.eddievegas.com/store/details ... -STRAT.php
£599 seems fair for a UK price.
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:02 am
THIS ONE?
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:44 am
Never seen one of those before but I like it. If I had the loot I would probably want to go for it but I cant stand floyd rose's.
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:51 am
Ah, thanks for that.Fran wrote:Gibson U-2 variant? Dr Know in Bad Brains used one but his had a pointy headstock.
Great pics, they show the neck/body area (joint?), which I was wondering about.hotrodperlmutter wrote:good pics and details for an '89 in scumbag silver sprakle here:
http://www.eddievegas.com/store/details ... -STRAT.php
Yeah, that's a consideration.Never seen one of those before but I like it. If I had the loot I would probably want to go for it but I cant stand floyd rose's.
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:06 am
Mo Rawka wrote:THIS ONE?
Oh . . . I have never seen one of those. I've always heard Hendrix played a Gibson.
Could you inform me more on this guitar, please?
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:45 pm
yeah, the rear routing and neck joint are almost identical to a fender showmaster.NickS wrote:Great pics, they show the neck/body area (joint?), which I was wondering about.hotrodperlmutter wrote:good pics and details for an '89 in scumbag silver sprakle here:
http://www.eddievegas.com/store/details ... -STRAT.php
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:48 pm
There was a shredder in Derry swore by these, reckoned they were the best guitars ever. He was a ballbag, though.
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:50 pm
same ballbag from this thread?BacchusPaul wrote:There was a shredder in Derry swore by these, reckoned they were the best guitars ever. He was a ballbag, though.
while searching for your use of 'ballbag,' it would appear you love using that phrase, and also know two (independent of each other) whom share an affinity for 80's setneck gibson superstrats.BacchusPaul wrote:I'm nearly certain it was one of these. I only seen one of his when I was about fifteen and much less observant. He described it as a "Gibson strat that they made for a while in the eighties."JJLipton wrote:He can shred on those things? Oddly enough i've never heard of that model ever. It looks like one of their strange 80's experimental guitars.BacchusPaul wrote:There's a shredder/guitar teacher in Derry who I think has, like, four of these. He's a ballbag, but I remember talking to him about these, and he reckoned they were the best guitars ever made. I was sceptical. Looks cool, though.
EDIT: Andddd it looks like i was right. Produced 1981-84. it would be interesting to hear someone shred on that thing, hell it would be interesting to hear myself shred on that thing.
He was a fucking ballbag though. I got about four lessons off him when I was fifteen. In those three weeks he taught me the first half of the Whiskey In The Jar solo. I got impatient in and taught myself the more difficult second half in about a day. That's when I realised I didn't need lessons.