<![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255? - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255? - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:28:31 EDT Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:28:31 EDT http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255 <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5353597 @tigerpop: Well, I live in an 1897 brownstone, so ... pretty big, actually.

the rich girls are weeping

]]> 33:382660:c5353597 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:28:31 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5326495     @gjmacd: I don't think the machine heads are a big deal. I always get these "my guitar won't stay in tune, the tuners are crap!" complaints. And, it's always a case of crappy stringing.

    The standard tuning key is a work of art. It always works, even if it's made of crappy metal. You've GOT to tune up, first of all. Tuning down to a note leaves the possibility of slippage.

    Then, you've got to have your strings wound neatly. If it's a big wad of messy crap on the tuning peg, with a yard of whippy end flailing around, well, then, you deserve your intonation problems!

    If I had to guess, I'd think that a guitar body the size of a patio table is going to hurt, in short order. And with 23 strings worth of tension.... Warp-city. Tune all the strings down, put a nice paint job on it, and hang it on the wall. I doubt it's a practical instrument!

AcidReign

]]> 33:382660:c5326495 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:25:14 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5324924 The question is, what song requires you play with this thing? I think Jack White could probably compose one.

LAKingsin2009

]]> 33:382660:c5324924 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:55:13 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5322140 Well, its not $255. Its $255 + $134.98 (shipping). Typical e-bay up-charge.

Total, $390 is still sort of cheap for that, but gotta ask, is it a piece of crap to play? I look at the photo's and have to ask because the machine heads look pretty cheap.

gjmacd

]]> 33:382660:c5322140 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:57:10 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5321707     I wouldn't restring that thing unless I HAD to. I'd scotch-brite those strings till I wore 'em in half! I'd have to work on the thing, if I bought it. I'm not big on country music, so two of the necks are useless to me. Then, the one actual guitar on the thing has single-coil soapbars on it. Can't exactly play Judas Priest covers on that!

AcidReign

]]> 33:382660:c5321707 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:34:18 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5320244 @the rich girls are weeping: How big is your wall?

tigerpop

]]> 33:382660:c5320244 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:19:03 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5319440 There's nothing really to add here, save OMG WANT. You could at least hang it on the wall as art or something.

the rich girls are weeping

]]> 33:382660:c5319440 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:48:59 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5319132 @Falconfire: Bring on the Chapman stick! . . . said Tony Levin.

tigerpop

]]> 33:382660:c5319132 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:38:49 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5318887 Perhaps it has a curse? Something that cool cannot possibly be safe, like a Monkey's Paw or the femur of St. Augustine. A homonculous in the pickguard?

OingoBobo

]]> 33:382660:c5318887 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:30:54 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5317371 Sorry@The Notorious T:

Sorry about that...

Mick Kraut

]]> 33:382660:c5317371 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:37:23 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5317348 How did this item escape Rick Neilsen's attention?

Mick Kraut

]]> 33:382660:c5317348 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:36:40 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5317143 You'd have to pay me $255 to change the strings.

FionaScrapple

]]> 33:382660:c5317143 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:29:20 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5316403 @tigerpop: Thats a ripoff WARR stick, not a bass.

+ Watch video

Falconfire

]]> 33:382660:c5316403 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:04:34 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5316348 @The Notorious T: hahahaha beat me to it!

beta.rogan

]]> 33:382660:c5316348 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:02:26 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5316276 Because there was no Keytar neck...

Clevertrousers

]]> 33:382660:c5316276 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:59:42 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5316266 @tigerpop: Wow. I love the header for this 15-string bass -- "For Beginning and 'advance' bassists."

TheContrarian

]]> 33:382660:c5316266 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:59:31 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5315872 They easily could've gotten double that price with a certificate of authenticity asserting that "Mandocello" was written on it.

StuntKockSteeev

]]> 33:382660:c5315872 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:48:05 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5315867 How...?

Cheap Trick isn't touring anytime soon?

The Notorious T

]]> 33:382660:c5315867 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:47:56 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5315566 @tigerpop: I just imagine this thing writhing in pain saying "Kill me...I should not be..."

Dead Air ummm Dead Air

]]> 33:382660:c5315566 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:38:13 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5315219

Holy crap--their entire eBay store is full of things that should not be. This, for starters.

tigerpop

]]> 33:382660:c5315219 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:28:21 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5315173 It's amazing, really. It's amazing that somebody spent that much time making a bassmanjotar that ugly. Everybody knows tobacco sunburst is the most collectible color of bassmanjotars.....

disinterested 3rd party

]]> 33:382660:c5315173 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:26:55 EDT <![CDATA[How Did This Guitar Only Sell For $255?]]> http://idolator.com/382660/how-did-this-guitar-only-sell-for-255#c5315135 Seems wrong to call it a "guitar." How about "Manjobasssitar"? Or the easier on the tongue "Freak of nature"? Either way, my neck hurts just thinking about it.

tigerpop

]]> 33:382660:c5315135 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:25:56 EDT