https://reverb.com/item/8001366-gibs...roll-with-ohsc
This one is an odd duck for sure. Anyone seen anything like this before?
https://reverb.com/item/8001366-gibs...roll-with-ohsc
This one is an odd duck for sure. Anyone seen anything like this before?
Not sure I would call that "good" condition - maybe "fair" condition. And no, I've not seen one like this before.
Different strokes for different folks... oddly enough, I'm actually a fan of the lump.
I don’t see anything “odd” homely maybe but not odd, this is a pretty normal looking example of the (strange) direction the company took for the A model in those odd days.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
As my son and I like to say . . . 'It's cool, but I'm not sure that it's $1,300 cool.'
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
The more snickers it gets the closer I get to finding one in my price range.
$500 for sure. I pull the trigger at $850.
I see its freakish appeal. Also when there is a pack reaction against something, I’m drawn to it. It’s like 70s Fenders. There is so much hate, but I’ve played quite a few lovely teles. Through high school I played a 73 tele that I got new. I certainly wish I still had it. You mention a 70s Gibson mandolin and a pack of folks will rise up against it, often. A few of them have actually had their hands on some. I find them strangely similar to Japanese products of the same period. I’m sure they vary a bit though.
Mitch Lawyer
Collings MF5V, Schwab #101 5 string
1918 Gibson A, 1937 Gibson T-50 tenor guitar
Jones OM, Hums bowlback
And that is why they continue to sell. There's magic in those feelings. Everyone likes an underdog. I certainly do. My problem is that over the years I've bought way too many things that other people thought were foolish and it has cost me money.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Ditto.
As a kid growing up in the 70's, and even into the 80's and early 90's, I heard nothing but words of total contempt for any guitar not made in America. Words like 'junk', 'firewood', 'awful', etc. were the common descriptive vernacular. Then one day in 1993 I stumbled upon an electric guitar that was a foreign-made gem . . . and in the 30+ years since then, my little arsenal of instruments have always been dominated by inexpensive 'junk' that would still cause many 'purists' to turn up their noses.
Living in Kalamazoo where the back door of the factory seemed to not have a lock or much inventory control on parts (either second, third, or scrap quality) there were tops for these working their way into lunchboxes and “interesting projects” were built from them.
There is the “it’s so ugly it’s cute” thing about them though, for the right price, I’d have some fun with one.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
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