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PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:03 pm 
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I found lots similar, but not exact... this also showed up in my search results!
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:21 am 
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OOH! A Piranha Bass. Hideous and strangely beautiful.


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:22 am 
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mcbrat wrote:
I found lots similar, but not exact... this also showed up in my search results!
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What the Heck were you searching for to turn that up, Mick?? :rofl:

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:34 am 
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Alrighty then, here is the remainder of the bill...

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Waiting for sometime for one to enter the market again got so frustrating, plus Arthur had a really nice looking jazzbox available around 6 months ago and I was severely tempted to pull the trigger then.

It was worth the wait though. :up:

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:57 am 
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Nice one!


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:32 pm 
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Iceman wrote:
mcbrat wrote:
I found lots similar, but not exact... this also showed up in my search results!
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What the Heck were you searching for to turn that up, Mick?? :rofl:


Google Image search for 775 maple guitar
it was the start of page 2...

I had been doing searches on 175 jazz greco and other variations on 175 jazz first...

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:49 pm 
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8) Well I agree that this one was worth the wait to get. Congrats on a real beauty. :up:

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 3:43 pm 
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I knew it !!!! It's a guitar !!!


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 3:47 pm 
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I knew it !!!! It's a guitar !!!



Can't get one by you eh, Dave??

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 3:56 pm 
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Iceman - Youi might be interested in this as a comparison - also another Uncle Mat I believe.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/170859103184?ss ... 1423.l2649


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:50 am 
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:57 am 
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I'll have you know, Mr. IcicleMan, in my great self-imposed expertudiness, I can even identify the other one !! That is the seldom seen in domestication captivity GuitarFish, a very rare denizitizen of the Great Barrier Riiif off western Australiana....(I think...) :roll: BTW, yours is sweet !!!


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:33 pm 
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Jead wrote:
Iceman - Youi might be interested in this as a comparison - also another Uncle Mat I believe....


Yup. That is the "budget build" version of the same guitar. The differences are in some of the materials...pearloid fret markers vs. inlayed MOP, plastic nut vs. brass, not certain about the pups vs. MMK53's, etc.

Otherwise in basic terms the same instrument. Many of these Ventura builds were not shortchanged in the lumber department either, as the one you linked clearly proves.

You made my day Jead. Even with shipping charges from England I still paid less than what that Ventura went for.

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Iceman - Youi might be interested in this as a comparison - also another Uncle Mat I believe....




You made my day Jead. Even with shipping charges from England I still paid less than what that Ventura went for.



I believe you did extra extremely well then. I think the Ventura pickups, whatever they are, might have a hard time competing with MMK 53's. Your S2 looks quite bodacious Iceman. :up:


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