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[StarryNight]

i reserve judgement, but man those are some crazy lookin' pickups:

Vintage Masterbuilt Guitar (Fender, Gibson Custom Shop) on eBay (end time 14-Aug-10 22:09:54 BST)

[David Schwab]

Wow, that's really weird! Look at the neck heel. What's with the finish?

For the pickups it says:

Cobalt-Samarium are installed on the sound receiver ..

It has two-HUMBUCKER and 3-Single.

[Rick Turner]

Well, I'll say it if nobody else will:

Truly hideous...

I'm too old to have to be nice...

[Rosewood]

I don't post much but I just gotta ask, is this for real? Masterbuilt? vintage relic? Looks like woodpeckers got a hold of it. I hope I'm not offending someone but forgodsake!!!!! What the hell is that? my eyes my eyes my eyes. You'd have ta be drunk, you'd just have ta. Be funny if it actually sounded good wouldn't it?

[LtKojak]

That "Master" was very high on vodka when he built that one... if it's not hollow, that must weight a ton and a half!

Have you seen the starting price of the auction...? Well, they seem to be indeed still high on vodka as we speak(I mean... from then on)!

FAIL.

[-Elepro-]

watch the wood near the rear strap button....i think a dog played with it

[Plucky]

The only two items he has sold in the last year are a catalog page and a tie...

[jonson]

Well, I'll say it if nobody else will:

Truly hideous...

I'm too old to have to be nice...

Work of art mate. I don't think I could reproduce that pissed as a rat and worn out after a night with one of Spence's sheep.

[madialex]

Looking at the way the rest of it is looking, it couldn't possibly play worth a dam. And I really would hope it comes with a holding stand to play it, It's got to weigh a ton!!

[Possum]

Its so weird I LOVE it!!!! I mean ITS REALLY COOL, a work of art.....

[madialex]

Ok Dave, step away from the coffee pot and slow down on the cough syrup.

[LtKojak]

Ok Dave, step away from the coffee pot and slow down on the cough syrup.

And don't forget the contact glue...

[jonson]

Unique guitar, one off copy. But the seller according to e-bay has relisted it or ANOTHER ONE LIKE IT? Still say it's a work of art our oriental brothers would have trouble getting all of that right. Who would want to copy it anyway. Switches look automobile and have to rumage in me boxes to find other bits. Make a start tomorrow I think.

[David Schwab]

Ok Dave, step away from the coffee pot and slow down on the cough syrup.

It does have a certain appeal based on how weird it is. If it didn't have that weird finish (it says the sides are coated with epoxy), it would be kind of cool. I like the funky aluminum parts. I covered parts of my first guitar, a Sekova Les Paul copy, with aluminum. It held a Gibson P-90 at the neck and a patent label humbucker at he bridge, and went all the way up to the bridge. It gave it an interesting metallic tone unplugged.

I don't get the spring loaded strap button though, but I guess the bottom is like a stand.

[frankfalbo]

At least we know where he got his experience finishing.



I liked it better the first time when it was this: