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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I wonder what's under that metal strip? :confused:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2369969993&category=47064
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And I KNOW that ain't the guitar Paul Simon played 'cause his DIDN'T have a metal strip! :D
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | Mike that looks to me like a very bad way to cover a crack. That is to bad, that looks like a nice guitar. Paul Simon's Custom Legend was black. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Hey Paul,
Maybe you could do something like that to cover the pick scratches on your CL!! :rolleyes:
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Location: Scotland | "Same guitar that Paul Simon played for the longest time"
I thought Billy Joel wrote that ;) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | This guitar was sold on ebay some time ago. I'm guessing that the buyer took one look under the strip and said "Holy Shit" and put it back up for auction. Dave
PS - Or maybe the metal strip is a midi voltage ribbon controller? That would actually be pretty cool. |
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Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | It's probably just 8 ounces of 24 carat gold the seller is trying to get rid of. Has anyone emailed the seller? |
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Location: Tennessee | Ay caramba! This one sold for $810! I doubt I could get that much for my minty Custom Legend 12! Of course, Paul Simon never played mine. ;) |
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Location: SoCal | It would be interesting to write the buyer after delivery to find out what the damage is under the metal strip...amazing. Really doubt that it was attached as a "decoration." |
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Location: NJ | To top it off, I don't really think it's a "metal strip". If you look at it close the edges of the strip aren't overtly straight and paralel. To me, it looks like someone took a 1" paint brush and some aluminum paint to it. $800?? Ooofah!! |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | It might be some of that metalized tape that you can buy. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | That would be Duct Tape, the handyman's secret as every viewer of "The Red Green Show" knows. If it is, that would increase the value in Canada.
The Red Green Show is a perfect depiction of life in Conneaut Ohio where I grew up.
Red Green used to play a vintage guitar that looked like a Montgomery Ward $15 special (in Canadian dollars), as with all his talents, his playing was worth about the same.
Duct Tape Forever!!!!
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Location: Central Oregon | "There are only two tools you need to fix anything around the house. Duct tape & WD-40. If it moves & it ain't supposed to- put duct tape on it. If it don't move & it is supposed to- squirt it with WD-40."
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Location: NJ | but what part of the duck do you use to make the tape??? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Al
It is DUCT tape, the kind you New Joisey Dons use to restrain your captives before you stick their heads in the vice. Every cold case mystery I've seen has the victim wrapped in DUCT tape with the killer's fingerprints on one side or the other, the State boundaries were marked in duct tape when the Mafia laid out New Jersey to escape their indictments in New York, I learned that when I attended classes at the Sikorsky factory in Bridgeport, Connecticut, it takes reams of duct tape to hold together any state that spells their name Connect i cut, an oxymoron if I ever saw one. |
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Location: Central Oregon | Originally posted by alpep:
but what part of the duck do you use to make the tape???
The sticky part Al :)
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Location: SoCal | The surprising aspect of this is the $810 end bid.
Maybe the strip, metal or tape, was an astute marketing ploy..."what's under the strip?"
Been a number of CL's that sold for less.
As the seller stated, this may have been a repair.
Hopefully, the buyer wasn't disappointed when he or she received it. |
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New repair method...
