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There was a Skylark 2588 on eBay Sunday night. Good photos of a 2588 here:

http://www.guitarscanada.com/electric-g ... 981-a.html

and the original info:

http://matsumoku.org/models/skylark/skylark_info.html

The best way to think of the top-end Skylark is as a set-neck X150.

With three minutes to go, the auction was bid to $545. I put $555 in and it looked like that might have been enough. In fact, I was kind of kicking myself for impulse-bidding $555 on a guitar that I probably wouldn't play or use. My eBay mobile app showed me as the winner at $555...

..but then I refreshed the page to make sure. Nope. It went for

$880.00

Admittedly, this was a solid-condition guitar with all parts working and very little damage to the finish anywhere, but MAN, what's next? Solid-color '84 Phoenixes for a grand?

I saw that and was ASTONISHED by the price. Nice one but....really? Keep dodging the bullets Jack.

In my haste to complain I made a mistake. It's not a set-neck X150; it's a neck-through X150.

Jack.... I had the winning bid for 3 of the last 8 seconds of that auction @ $822.79. I was watching it and saw your bid. I am sure there were at least 2 E-snipe accounts set up on that auction. It jumped over $300 in the last 8 seconds.

Did not think to ask around here if anyone was bidding on it. There was a thread over at the Mats fourms about it, but most of those posts were bemoaning the price it had reached with 3 days still left.

Sorry for both of us. I am keeping an ear to the ground on this one. The x390 that went for over $1500 about 3 weeks ago or so was technically mine as the seller had agreed to end the auction early based on an offer I made to him directly. He did not end the auction however and I was left standing at the gate basically after that. But the eventual winning bidder did post on the Westone forums about it so I was able to hear the upshot of the whole deal.

Perhaps the winner of this Skylark will do the same. Maybe more info to come.

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...throw me a frickin' bone here, people...

Thought I'd post this for comparison (however appropriate or not) with the blue skylark... particularly for you Iceman, since you also expressed interest in the X150 (which I was eyeing, but will let it go since I have a x149 and am currently out of the country)...

clearly out of my price range (800 E is currently ~$1,150 USD) but a beauty and looks clean. I'm just watching to see if it goes:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/230663327812?ssP ... 1423.l2649

info on the series:
http://www.matsumoku.org/models/ariaproii/rs1/rs1.html