OUCH! This is painful to look at!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:47 pm
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OUCH! This is painful to look at!
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Re: OUCH! This is painful to look at!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:56 pm
From a few pics it looks to have had major water damage.
Re: OUCH! This is painful to look at!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:00 pm
It's a Katrina bass.
Re: OUCH! This is painful to look at!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:58 pm
How can it be fetching $200 already? That is insane.
Re: OUCH! This is painful to look at!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:14 pm
I fear she's a goner 
Is that a 1973 date code on the pot casings? Chances are she's a November '73 or November '74 4001. Good for parts then - forget about the bass proper. 
Is that a 1973 date code on the pot casings? Chances are she's a November '73 or November '74 4001. Good for parts then - forget about the bass proper. Re: OUCH! This is painful to look at!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:23 pm
But then, there are some who would pay that for a plexi TRC.
Re: OUCH! This is painful to look at!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:25 pm
Another Katrina victim...the center, neck-through portion has warped and curled up. This leads me to say it'd be a tough restoration, though not impossible. However, flood survivors usually have the wood grain opened way up and are likely to re-warp following any attempt to stabilize them.
Re: OUCH! This is painful to look at!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:29 pm
That and the output jackplate.bassduke49 wrote:But then, there are some who would pay that for a plexi TRC.
Re: OUCH! This is painful to look at!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:06 pm
He sent me an email saying the letters on the jackplate are MK.
Re: OUCH! This is painful to look at!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:13 pm
MK 5833 makes it a build date of November 1973.
Re: OUCH! This is painful to look at!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:37 pm
Exactly