I'm guessing a late 1922 Floyd Loar

[neal]

I wonder if that could be classified as 'American Folk Art'? Might be worth some serious dough to some swell in Greenwich Village.

In all seriousness, that would look excellent in a frame on a wall. It would take some thought, but it's pretty cool as folk art, and I'm just a swell in Wisconsin.

[journeybear]

It's still available ...

If framed and presented properly, and provided with a tongue-in-cheek provenance, and marketed to the right segment of the art-appreciatin' population, one could conceivably turn quite the profit for one's investment.

And at the very least, if you're still stuck with, it is a great conversation piece, and will also provide endless amusement - without even being played!

[Skip Kelley]

I think I am going to be sick!! Maybe it was Picasso who built this and not Orville!!

[journeybear]

Just three days left before this unique example of folk art vanishes forever ...

Gosh I wish I had a hundred bucks I could just toss away. Sure to be an endless source of amusement and conversation piece ...

[Chris Keth]

There's a first-thing-Monday-morning piece if ever I saw one.

[journeybear]

Just took another look. Somewhere along the line the seller added this:

THIS JUST IN: " Orville Gibson just called and said he wants this back, it was his first" Grampa left his teeth in it?

At least he's got a sense of humor about this!

[Tobin]

This would make an awesome gag gift for the mandolinist who has everything.

It would be hilarious to walk into a high-end luthier's shop with this thing and ask what he would charge to do a setup on it...

[jeff mercer]

What'd be equally as funny would be to carry it around in a genuine Loar-era F-5 case...you can just imagine...

You walk into a jam where a bunch of seasoned pickers are sitting around...

The room goes silent as you enter..you gently place the case on the table..you sloooowwwly flip the latches one by one....you gingerly lift the lid...

..then you pull THIS out !

[Chris Keth]

What'd be equally as funny would be to carry it around in a genuine Loar-era F-5 case...you can just imagine...

You walk into a jam where a bunch of seasoned pickers are sitting around...

The room goes silent as you enter..you gently place the case on the table..you sloooowwwly flip the latches one by one....you gingerly lift the lid...

..then you pull THIS out !

What if it sounds like voices of angels, better than anything heard hitherto or hereafter? What if it is so good the first note of anything you play makes people weep with the beauty of it? What if it is SO good that it inspires people to suicide because they know they'll never experience anything so beautiful ever again...?
















...eh probably not.

[Lou Scuderi]

Well, looks like somebody took the plunge. Anybody here the guilty party?

I like how the pick guard is just bolted onto the instrument face. That should make a nice...resonant touch.

[sumibuilt]

I'll contact the buyer and see if he can tell us who bought it