Epic Ebay Horror: a Headless BC Rich Mockingbird with Strandberg Hardware

[Wrecklyss]

This:guitars::Ian Watkins:honorable

 

[Musiscience]

You guys are just oblivious to his genius.

 

[Semi-pro]

Somenone make a blue cheese guitar of that! That and Bumblefoot's swiss cheese guitar would make a nice couple: http://www.bumblefoot.com/gear/guitar04.htm

 

[Triple-J]

The more I look at it the more I'm convinced that the guy couldn't even be bothered using an actual saw to cut the wood he just grabbed a hammer and a flat head screwdriver and started banging away at it until bits of wood came off but the craziest part is that he managed to sell it.

 

[Zhysick]

The buy it now price is still only a bit over half of what that trem would cost direct from strandberg. So if you want a strandberg trem without paying $610+ it's a good deal (you get some pickups and hardware for your parts bin too), and you get to put a horribly mangled guitar out of its misery.

I would prefer to pay MORE for just not have that on my hands... you know... everything is REAL when you can touch it... if you are not touching it maybe it is not real... please... tell me that's not real...

 

[AlexeyKo]

Guys, it is budget Strandberg's model

 

[JStraitiff]

Whaddayamean?

 

[beneharris]

He has two watchers

So I watched this video, ended up watching a video of "Who Do You Think You Are?" With Jim Parsons, because it was suggested. so 40 minutes later, I'm commenting

I like how he says

I did not install the Strandberg locking nuts, because I thought it looked better without them

 

[Dan_Vacant]

I expected just a big rout for the trem, not a mutilated guitar.

 

[Hollowway]

Man, if he didn't eff up the hardware someone got a hell of a deal for a steiny trem.

 

[Cloudy]

This is some genuine guitar porn.

Definitely puts all headless guitars to shame, Ola could learn a thing or two from this mastermind.

 

[skeels]

Somebody got a deal.

 

[WildBroskiAppears]

Almost every frame of Brad Pitt in that last scene of se7en is suitable.

 

[angelbear]

when i saw this abomination

 

[BlackMastodon]

I actually said "What in all the ......." out loud when I saw this. I hope whoever bought it will properly burn the poor bastard after taking the hardware out. Needs to be taken out of its misery.

 

[Blue1970Cutlass]

When I close my eyes it's still there

 

[feraledge]

It is absolutely insane that this sold.

For every one of us who had amazing guitars that were sold for emergency funds, but then sat on eBay only to go to a low baller out of desperation, I shed a single tear.

Justice is lost.

 

[jordanky]

Yuck. That's the Sarah Jessica Parker of guitars.

 

[feraledge]

I just showed this to my wife and she laughed herself to tears when I told her what it sold for.

I wish I never knew this happened, because there are too many life questions that now rest on my shoulders knowing this has happened. How do I explain to my daughters how I brought them into the same world that this guitar was sold in? I don't know. I just don't know.

 

[feraledge]

Last post on this. I swear.

They say not to judge a book by it's cover, so I opened up the table of contents. This dude sold Nunchaku instructional vhs tapes for $25 two years ago. Meaning he mastered the art and then, in the age of youtube, figured he could still sell the VHS copies for more than it cost to mail them.
And they sold.

Who is this butcher of guitars/master of eBay?

Thanks OP, now not only do I know this abortion of a guitar exists, I know this dude is selling insanity while most of what I've sold on ebay lately was just taking a hit.