My shadow . Whats it worth ?

thinneckrick · Post by **thinneckrick** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:05 am

Does anyone know what the book value is on my 86 shadow ?

throw_this_away · Post by **throw_this_away** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:07 am

I will give the annoying and unsatisfying answer... it is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

thinneckrick · Post by **thinneckrick** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:11 am

Gee, Thanks John . lol

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:24 am

About $1000, and I'll be sending it to your Paypal account tonight.

No, really, it's probably worth about $16-1800. Maybe more on Ebay, who knows what something is going to go for on there.

thinneckrick · Post by **thinneckrick** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:37 am

For a shadow ? I paid $2025 for it .

loendmaestro · Post by **loendmaestro** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:09 am

See post #2

brian · Post by **brian** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:41 am

One big factor in price you are all not mentioning is condition of the instrument. However in any sale post #2 is always correct. Evaluations for insurance purposes are a somewhat different situation and I'm not qualified to be an appraiser or make any evaluation related to that.

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:00 am

Shadows are climbing in value. 2K is not unrealistic.

j_gary · Post by **j_gary** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:20 am

What's the difference between a Shadow and a Darkstar?

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:41 am

You're thinking of a Blackstar, Jgary. Darkstars are those Guild-type pickups.

A Blackstar has a black-painted fretboard and I think is an S-type bass (no binding, countoured body).

A shadow has a light-rosewood fretboard with black dot inlays and checkered binding.

I passed on a Shadow for $1295 about 6 months ago. That was really dumb, even though it was really beat up.

dswp · Post by **dswp** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:51 am

I paid $1700 for a dead mint one 2 years ago.

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:06 am

I paid $750 but the guy was clueless. The bass had a white pickguard and the seller thought he had a run-of-the-mill Ric. I hope he's not reading this now.

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:08 pm

Jeffery has a very nice one, I've seen the pics and almost bought it recently.

Sorry Jeffery, but if the blueburst and the desert gold would not have surfaced, I would have. I had been looking for a desert gold for a long time, and the blueburst just kind of presented itself at the right time.

j_gary · Post by **j_gary** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:17 pm

John, thanks for being so gentle with the terminally dim. At least I got the star part right.

Dave, great looking bass. That is what I was thinking when Jeffery said Shadow. Very nice!

Jeffery, I'd trade my 1992 Fireglo v63 for your Shadow if she is near as pretty as Dave's.

thinneckrick · Post by **thinneckrick** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:36 pm

post some pics Gary . lets have a look at it .