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    Quote Originally Posted by euph_22 View Post
    I live this part: "TO A GOOD LUTHIER, THIS IS RESTORABLE."
    Good luthiers probably have projects on their bench that represent a better ROI. This is a basket case, and will never yield a return of the time & money required to restore it. It's a project for a beginning luthier, a hobby luthier, or a desperate luthier, but not a good one.
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    I think this guy goes to a lot of flea markets and buys lots of stuff cheap. He also has a no name banjo uke starting at $125 and a Bohmann bowlback with some multiple topcracks (for $280BIN): "THE CRACKS DO NOT SEEM TO DETER THE TONE, WITH THREE STRINGS PUT IN TUNE, IT STILL RESONATES WELL."

    Some of his stuff might be OK. I bet he would take less for the grain-infested mandolin but would he pay us to take it off his hands. Hey, at least on side of the tuners looks decent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeEdgerton View Post
    OK, I want to know who the 1 person watching this auction is....
    I'm guessing the original owner...probably still has nightmares of this THING coming back to haunt him! I'll be sure to lock my doors and log off of ebay tonight after seeing this horror show!

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    Not a mando but a 72 Sigma guitar for only $1250.00 buy-it-now! It's new old stock but $1250.00? geez!!

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-NOS-1972...#ht_2206wt_919
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    Quote Originally Posted by jim simpson View Post
    Not a mando but a 72 Sigma guitar for only $1250.00 buy-it-now! It's new old stock but $1250.00? geez!!

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-NOS-1972...#ht_2206wt_919
    Hmm..., didn't know they made them that early. I had one of the first Sigma's, about a 76 DR-28. It was every bit as good as a Martin D-28. My son grew up with it, and babied it until he left home. He was offered every kind of trade deal for it one can imagine, turned them all down. Gave it back to me when he moved on and I sold it. I see many entertainers using these old Sigmas from the first few years. Some of the early ones are better than the Martins. I have never seen one this color or that model #.
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    Were the early Sigma Guitars laminate or solid? If it's solid that price is not out of line in today's market.

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    Love the Kafka reference, one of the cleverist yet. Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by euph_22 View Post
    Did they find that thing 5 feet under the foundation of their house? It's either that, or they dug it out of a fire.

    I live this part: "TO A GOOD LUTHIER, THIS IS RESTORABLE." I'd beg to differ. The top is wrecked, the back is wreck, I assume the neck is trash, the tuners, fretboard, frets, tailpiece, bridge, braces are all garbage. Restoring this would require replacing the entire thing piece by piece and at that point you really aren't restoring it, you're building a new one.
    The tuners, tail piece, and pick guard are not necessarily trash but every thing else is.
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    Not a mandolin but a 1931 Epi tenor guitar. The front has been stipped of finish but the seller thinks it is worth $8500.oo!

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/1931-Epiphon...fb#ht_63wt_917
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    Payment via Cashiers Check ONLY.

    That's ok then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bratsche View Post
    For the person who has everything:

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    This listing seems a little ambitious

    Besides the tuner issue, is most of the tailpiece missing?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben Milne View Post
    This listing seems a little ambitious

    Besides the tuner issue, is most of the tailpiece missing?
    Just the cover (poor man's armrest) is missing, most of the tailpiece is down where the endpin is.
    But that is not why it's ambitious - this one looks very much like my very first mandolin, which I bought new for the value of approx. $50 back in '83.
    And it's not Framus. It's some East German cheapo.
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    I'm going to go out on a limb and predict no takers on this. Only thing obviously wrong is the starting price.

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    I dunno, considering what some of Kinnard's guitars go for, $3.2K for a mandocello ain't too far out of line.

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    I'd have had no issue if it had been a BIN price, I'd just have thought he might need to be patient. You might pay a bit more to buy one from John Kinnard, but at least you'd be certain that you were getting an original. There's no provenance and the seller doesn't exactly have history with musical instruments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by houseworker View Post
    I'm going to go out on a limb and predict no takers on this. Only thing obviously wrong is the starting price.
    Maybe it's the photo angle, but the bass strings seem too far over from the fingerboard edge, and the treble strings too close to the other edge.

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    I am pretty sure that it is the angle of the photo, Alan. It does not look off to me but you could ask for better photos from more angles.

    I have a friend who played one of these as his main MC for many years. They are very nice instruments and IMHO that asking price is reasonable. I don't know what houseworker means by provenance -- the seller is prob the original owner -- and I doubt that this is a Kinnaird mandocello copy. The only problem here is the market for decent mandocellos -- pretty slim in general. Yes, it might not sell for this price but I think the price is fair.
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    http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-Anti...item3386c91a7f

    Not a mando but a case, make that a basket case!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jim simpson View Post
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-Anti...item3386c91a7f

    Not a mando but a case, make that a basket case!
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    Heh! I have one of those cases. The hinges are busted and you have to put a rubber band on it to keep it shut ... but at least the top and bottom are still attached! What do you figure it's worth?
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    Top was obviously stripped with numerous top cracks. No way this one sells.
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    This one is a "steal" at $850, the seller says:
    http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-1800-...item3cd592a01d.

    Some real moving prose in that ad, and , naturally, the precious instrument was found in their grandpa's attic.
    The mandolin is cautiously dated as being made in the period 1800-1930, give it a year or two here and there.

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    Well, it is not a mandolin but this seller is very entertaining. He/she tried to sell this backless L-00 guitar for starting bid of $3700. It did not sell (surprisingly) so he raised the price to $3995. That should do it, right?

    These are great little guitars but they usually have backs for that asking price which is very close to actual retail and big name dealers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Garber View Post
    These are great little guitars but they usually have backs for that asking price which is very close to actual retail and big name dealers.
    Right you are, those can be fabulous little guitars. I'd like to have that one, I have plenty of wood to make a new back for it. Heck, I'd probably even pay over $100 for it! (Of coarse, I already have an LG2 in need of a new back, so I'd better leave that one to a luthier with deeper pockets.)

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