Thundergod Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Showed up on my local buy-sell portal ... it is in spanish but a pipc is a pic... he says it is a "rare gibson guitar", to me it doesnt look like a guitar... but hey gibson has pulled out a lot of weird stuff before eh? Is this something any of you guys know? http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ec/MEC-4045978-gibson-edicion-especial-_JM ...yes, I may be a complete idiot if the answer is "it isnt a gibson product" but if it is, then I would like to know more about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 It's a Gibson lap steel likely from the 40s. They made a metric assload of them along with many other companies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted November 6, 2008 Author Share Posted November 6, 2008 Oh... thanks ks ... he wants 1000 for it... is that a little too much or is that an ok price? (I am not interested... I was just intrigued as it is not the kind of thing you find in the local evil bay version) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I wouldn't pay it. Funny thing about lap steels, they don't have to be "good" to be good. In the 80s I owned two old Harmony lap steels that sounded like the gates of Hell opening up and Ry Cooder standing there with horns and a tail.... then I parlayed them into a "good collector snobby" lap steel, a 1953 Fender with a 3-digit serial number. What a letdown. My one current lap steel is a 1948 Supro that I think I paid $140 on ebay back a few years ago. It might be worth $200 today....maybe. Gibson lap steels go anywhere from $300-800 on ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Hi Thundergod. It's almost certainly a real Gibson. There's a photo of one which is,as far I can see, identical, even down to the bridge cover/'inlay' design, in the Vol 2 edition of Ian C. Bishop's "The Gibson Guitar from 1950" (p19, if you have the book). The caption says they were made from the early '30s up to the sixties. Many had a Charlie Christian p-up fitted...........Buy it - you could be lucky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flight959 Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 WTF! is that.... Hey Thunder....You gonna have a battle (Round 3) with it? He he he Flight959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted November 6, 2008 Author Share Posted November 6, 2008 hehehehe I dont think so man... even AXE's kitty pauls would beat the sh1t out of that one... I was just curious... as I said before it is not the kind of thing one can expect to find here in the used/new buy/sell portal... I guess the guy doesn't know what it is he has there as he is selling it as a gibson guitar for lefties... I thought I could PM him and give him some input on it if he was selling it too cheap... (yes, I am guilty of being a nice person, sometimes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thermionik Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 . . Sweetest old lap steel I've seen in many a year..... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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