Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
So from S-50 with Tremar to a '67 Hagstrom Viking and from that to this. A too stupidly low priced vintage bass to pass up, almost at yesterday's prices, and shipping prices. I had a Crucianelli 335 once with some very vintage Gibson humbuckers, and it was fabulous. You knew it was special the second you picked it up, but like a fool I sold it.
It turns out Crucianelli made Vox's guitars for them, so all the early Stones stuff, impressive. Them and EKO, often mentioned by Rambozo, went head to head for contracts with companies wanting guitars built for them, like Vox and in fact only in the rarest cases like this one do they actually say Crucianelli on them, this may have not been for export, but brought back by a GI.
Not a lot of info on these, but it promises to be pretty great.
This is one of those there's only one of these out there, and that's usually what I get ;]
I'm really falling for these aged poly finishes like the Hagstrom, bulletproof, not even affected by sweat. It's like a guitar you could use as a canoe paddle ;]
Man is this gonna cure 60's Starfire bass envy on the cheap or what?
A nice hollow body bass, well built with good tuners and I presume decent single coil pickups, and hey, it's original, after all this time, amazing.
Not sure there will be experts on this one, like the Viking. The Hag has me in the middle of an email with someone in Sweden who wrote back on decoding the serial, the batch number, what year, was indeed '67, just a lucky coincidence, the last two digits of the Viking is 67, a lucky guitar.
It turns out Crucianelli made Vox's guitars for them, so all the early Stones stuff, impressive. Them and EKO, often mentioned by Rambozo, went head to head for contracts with companies wanting guitars built for them, like Vox and in fact only in the rarest cases like this one do they actually say Crucianelli on them, this may have not been for export, but brought back by a GI.
Not a lot of info on these, but it promises to be pretty great.
This is one of those there's only one of these out there, and that's usually what I get ;]
I'm really falling for these aged poly finishes like the Hagstrom, bulletproof, not even affected by sweat. It's like a guitar you could use as a canoe paddle ;]
Man is this gonna cure 60's Starfire bass envy on the cheap or what?
A nice hollow body bass, well built with good tuners and I presume decent single coil pickups, and hey, it's original, after all this time, amazing.
Not sure there will be experts on this one, like the Viking. The Hag has me in the middle of an email with someone in Sweden who wrote back on decoding the serial, the batch number, what year, was indeed '67, just a lucky coincidence, the last two digits of the Viking is 67, a lucky guitar.
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