Re: Arlington?

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Re: Arlington?

Post by zhivago » Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:24 am

it was probably stripped of it's decal back in the 70s, or when the neck was refinned.
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Re: Arlington?

Post by daydreamdelay » Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:31 am

wow that's an incredible collection of offsets  8)

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Re: Arlington?

Post by rabidhamster » Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:54 am

someone refinished the whole thing :-\  I still havent figured out how to tell if they did it in poly or nitro, but it sorta looks like nitro to me.  Im going to have to find a proper decal for it and leave it out in the sun for a little bit.  It just looks too new now.

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Re: Arlington?

Post by StevenO » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:44 am

That guitar reminds me of Thurston Moore's jazzmaster.

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Re: Arlington?

Post by offsetwaistbody » Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:02 am

hey, hey... colour co-ordinated shirt! :D

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Re: Arlington?

Post by rabidhamster » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:58 pm

indeed it does!  I thought it did, but I couldnt find that picture, so I started to think maybe I'd imagined it.  Thanks:)

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Re: Arlington?

Post by daydreamdelay » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:11 pm

zhivago wrote:
fullerplast wrote: I sold one that looked exactly like that less than a year ago.

It was a '63 and was an older refin with some (real) wear. I gave the guy a great price on it. John (zhivago) hooked me up with the buyer.
ah yes! I remember!

the guy was Weatherbox...a Harmony Central forumite :)


that was a nice looking guitar, he didn't keep it long.. I guess it didn't catch on with him. I really wanted to buy it from him but couldn't raise the money quick enough..


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nearly identical to this one..

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Re: Arlington?

Post by zhivago » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:55 pm

he sold the Fiesta??  :o

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Re: Arlington?

Post by daydreamdelay » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:06 pm

zhivago wrote: he sold the Fiesta??   :o

:(

yea, within a month or two it seemed.. I wanted it so bad but couldn't pull it off :(

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Re: Arlington?

Post by StevenO » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:09 pm

wow!
I love that fiesta red jazzmaster and I used to hate them.
hmm...

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Re: Arlington?

Post by zhivago » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:26 pm

daydreamdelay wrote:
zhivago wrote: he sold the Fiesta??  :o

:(

yea, within a month or two it seemed.. I wanted it so bad but couldn't pull it off :(
that is kinda making me a bit sad...he was going on about how impossible it was to find a pre-cbs decent Jazzmaster, I hooked him up with Doug who gave him a great price, and then he sold it so quickly :(

I guess it was his property, but still, I feel a bit sad about it.

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Re: Arlington?

Post by mezcalhead » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:30 pm

Ingrate!

>:(

Oh well, financial stuff happens, I guess ..

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Re: Arlington?

Post by daydreamdelay » Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:18 pm

yeah financial stuff definitely happens.. unfortunately I know this all too well but based on this old post I just found it appears he didn't like it, certainly didn't tell me it was "too ratty; just wasn't a very good one"  :-\

I had a '63 for a short time earlier this year; I'd always had JM lust. Ended up selling it... a little too ratty; just wasn't a very good one. I'm sort of giving up on vintage ones; they've just gotten too pricey and they're hit or miss qualitywise. May yet grab a good MIJ or US RI though. When you've got a good one, they're stellar, and so comfortable. Right now I'm building a Gretsch/Jazzmaster hybrid combining aspects of both that I like.

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Re: Arlington?

Post by fullerplast » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:28 pm

I bent over backwards for that guy!

That was a nice Jazzmaster and I gave him an excellent price and service. It was a '63 with an old worn red refin (kind of a cross between Dakota and Fiesta) and all correct 1963 parts. I sold it for like $1700. This was when the prices had just started to rise, and I had seen Jimmy brown refins with wrong parts sell for $2300 around that time.

As soon as he got it, he hinted at how he didn't like it much, not what he expected, etc...  I told him to send it back... I would gladly refund it. I could have got at least $500 more for it on the bay. But he didn't, I guess he would rather just bitch about it. It arrived at his place with a bent tuner, so I busted up a complete set of Klusons to rush another one to him. He didn't thank me, and did not return the old one like I asked... until several emails later.

He really rubbed me the wrong way...  >:(


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Re: Arlington?

Post by daydreamdelay » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:35 pm

wtf?! >:(

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