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OK Now I am confused again I went back into some older messages and I got a nice one from Ronn showing a potato head with what looks like walnut wings on the Potato headstock?

Then I went to the site and photo Jared posted showing John's potatohead and it is all white like the one (I think) that chris has?

OK so there were only the two made? What is the photo you posted Ronn? I take it someone has already made one of these? Must be or the there are three not two? I like the CS look of that bass but I am curious as to it's origin or whereabouts? If someone made that, I sure hope mine will come out as nice as that one!

By the way thanks for the photo's they are a great help. I also do not remember who posted the drawings of a potatohead a few months ago when we were all disscussing the 5 string conversions? Was it Dane? or Jeff?

I am wondering, if in any of those drawings you guy's did, are there any actual dimensions? I can guess but I sure want this thing to be as close to the real thing as I can come.

I am excited about doing this one and I am real happy I will not need to have a bridge made "by me" or "for me" and the woodwork is my thing anyway. I found a guy who is a fantastic airbrush artist/auto painter. Looks like he is also going to be our sound man!

Randy, you get walnut with your potato with the 60,s 4005/8 basses, again very few made. With the 70,s 4001/8,s a la Squire/Entwistle you just get potato...

Do you want walnuts in your mashed potatoes or just plain?

Ahhhh.

Walnuts in the Potato's

sounds like a name for the band? See I learn something every day in here? Those walnut wings do give the headstock that CS touch.

I am going have my Mashed Potato's straight up!

You guys need to quit talking about food, Im on a diet.

The auction was pulled due to an "error in the listing". The seller has not yet responded to my question as to why.

I saw that I was going to post a message but I figured you were the high bidder and it's your place to do it.

Ted This guy could not have gotten a better offer on that bass. Your bid was more than a fair price for that bass! It had some super issues. He called so much of the bad stuff I can't see why he would think he had an error in the description?
Must be something else going on and he had to come up with a quick excuse so he could end the auction.

I was hoping you would get this one. I would have loved to have seen this restored like some of the others you have done!

Randy

Here is the reply from the seller. So the error in the listing was that the starting price was too low?!

Hi RickFan60,

Thanks for your inquiry, but weve had several offers about breaking
it up and selling for Parts (prices were too good to pass up) so we've decided
to go that route.

The tuning pegs, Bridge pickup and wiring harness w/ pots and knobs are all sold.


Only these are still available, all prices are asking prices.
neck Toaster Pickup ($325)
white Pickguard w small 1.5 inch long hairline crack near one of the screws ($55)
and incomplete Bridge which is missing string Saddle section ($40)

Make an offer if your interested in any of these....

Best Regards,
HPSS70

What about the Body? This is the weirdest auction I have seen in some time?

He plans to keep that and the jackplate. The idea is to rebuild it with new RIC parts. It started out as a $0.99 auction.

A cracked white pickguard for $55? Ouch.
If he is going to rebuild it, then why put it up in the first place? What the h*ll is he thinking? It'll be worth even less without the original parts!

A worthy description of the seller's Ebay manners would certainly be censored by Peter - and rightly so. I will refrain from expressing my true feelings at this time.

Not to worry, Ted. Your work speaks volumes. We can't help it if someone succumbs to pressure...I see that your checkerboard binding skills are coming along nicely. Maybe one day I will ask you to look at one for me