Nice Gibson, !@£$%^ price!

Colin Brooks · Post by **Colin Brooks** » 5 May 2005 12:51 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=621&item=7320139149&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
That's a lot of £££, but turn it into $$$ and it's truly frightening!

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 5 May 2005 1:01 pm

Looks cherry, and the 8 & 7 combo is neat. But, realistically, it's only worth about 1/5th of what he's askng.

Keith Cordell · Post by **Keith Cordell** » 5 May 2005 1:07 pm

Ridiculous. I guess GC isn't the only seller that is completely insane.

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Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 5 May 2005 1:27 pm

Is that a mute?
I wish he put better pics up....
So what is the BIN in US$$$?

Jay

Rick Alexander · Post by **Rick Alexander** » 5 May 2005 2:55 pm

It's roughly double, which is more like 10 times what it's worth!
If you take the "P" away from his eBay handle that about says it all . . .

Keith Cordell · Post by **Keith Cordell** » 5 May 2005 4:31 pm

8746.41 at todays rate... yikes. No, YIKES!!!!

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Sierra S8, Gibson GA30RVT, Peavey Delta Blues, Regal Dobro heavily modified, Teese RMC2 Wah, Proco Rat, pyrex and bakelite bars

Russ Young · Post by **Russ Young** » 5 May 2005 7:49 pm

Since when is 1943 "pre-war?"

Paul Arntson · Post by **Paul Arntson** » 5 May 2005 10:27 pm

Perchance, what is the chrome looking gizmo in front of the pickups?

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 6 May 2005 2:21 am

The guy's on glue.

Eric Stumpf · Post by **Eric Stumpf** » 6 May 2005 3:50 am

These pre-war Console Grandes did not incorporate neck switches into their circuits. The chrome contraption (actually, it's nickel) that you see there is a mute which when pulled into position, completely deadens the string vibration of the selected neck so as to prevent overtones from feeding into the pickup on the live neck being played. Low tech at it's best!

Cris Linscott · Post by **Cris Linscott** » 6 May 2005 5:11 am

I'm astonished at this. I know that the market is pretty good (fat chance of me laying my hands on one at the moment at the right price!)but even so - I wrote to the seller:
"Can you tell me upon what criteria you've set this price? I'm asking because I've been looking for a Console Grande for a while and my own research puts an instrument of this kind in the £700-£850 range. Does it have a particular provenance or is a specific custom model?"
I've also been looking for a Gibson EH 150 Lap steel - the last one I saw was for $950 (ebay again) and was in pretty poor repair. Can anyone give me a guide about reasonable prices for Grande Consoles and EH150? - Cris

George Manno · Post by **George Manno** » 6 May 2005 8:38 am

In the real world, I would venture to guess that $850 would be a fair starting price. I don't care of Jerome Howard owned it.

George

Cris Linscott · Post by **Cris Linscott** » 6 May 2005 9:51 am

Couldn't agree more George; doesn't matter who owned it really. I'm just intrigued to see how he justifies that price.... oh, and my 700-850 should have been $'s not £'s

Allen Kaatz · Post by **Allen Kaatz** » 6 May 2005 5:18 pm

These are probably really rare outside the USA which might explain why this seller has an inflated idea of its worth.

Also, there are a lot of fraudulent vintage instrument auctions on ebayfrom the UK lately, but they are usually underpriced to entice buyers.

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 6 May 2005 5:25 pm

Well, he certainly got his "comeupence", which turned out to be no pence!

Colin Brooks · Post by **Colin Brooks** » 7 May 2005 2:43 am

To give you some idea of what a London shop thinks lap steel are worth, http://www.hanksguitarshop.com/
These prices are fairly typical.

Colin

Cris Linscott · Post by **Cris Linscott** » 7 May 2005 4:01 am

Two replies from the seller below. Doesn't really add anything.

THE GIBSON CONSOLE GRANDE HAS 2 CHARLIE CHRISTIAN PICKUPS.15 STRING/TWIN NECK

THIS PARTICULAR GIBSON CONSOLE GRANDE LAPSTEEL WAS CUSTOM MADE BY GIBSON FOR MOXEY
WHITNEY

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 7 May 2005 5:02 am

Well, he's got plenty of moxy for the price he's asking!