beautiful swirl on **** but worth it?

guardiangel · #1 01-19-2007, 03:34 PM

theres a swirl by herc fede
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its going at 1425 right now...
it used to be an RG770dx...

iono if the price is too high... wasn't expecting such a jump in 700 dollars in 15 mins....

anyone can advice?

Demiurge · #2 01-19-2007, 05:13 PM

Waaaaay too much now. That $700 jump smells like some old-fashioned shill bidding.

Winning bidder was $1515. Beautiful swirl, but consider how you could buy an old fixer-upper RG and have one of the many talented swirlers on this site give you a nice swirl for a tad over half that (if you bought new pickups or whatever). I'm building a swirled Jem copy and here's my price rundown

swirled body- $250 from fellow Jemsiter
maple fb AANJ neck plus tuners- $125 from the 'bay
green tone zone and air nortion- $50/set on the 'bay
Edge trem + studs- $100 on the 'bay
green Dimarzio straplocks- $12 from Jemsiter
knob set- $10
electronics- already had 'em

total: about $550, and probably not $1000 worse than that one.

OLIE_ROCKS_THE_80'S · #3 01-19-2007, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Demiurge

Waaaaay too much now. That $700 jump smells like some old-fashioned shill bidding.

And now with the bidder's identities being secret there is going to be shill bidding left and right!!!

barbarelaxe · #4 01-19-2007, 05:30 PM

I won't be surprised if some of those guitars with "hidden" bidders will be re auctioned due to non paying bidders.

guardiangel · #5 01-19-2007, 06:59 PM

i agree that the bidding is abit fishy...

i was wondering if there are any good swirl artist in jemsite?
getting an order to UK is kinda....... far... and expensive >.>

i m not that good at electronics seriously -.- so i m not sure how to build my own T T sadly

robthorn · #6 02-14-2007, 10:00 PM

simscustomshop here on jemsite does awesome swirls. he was just in an accident so he will get behind but you can check out his banner above to his site with samples

wilch · #7 02-15-2007, 02:38 AM

That swirl reminds me of Glen's jem.

TongueShredder · #8 02-15-2007, 04:29 AM

Look at this from a point of an entrepreneur. The owner of the guitar is very enterprising indeed. From an old unused guitar, he turned it into a money making machine. It is legal and it is very business minded. I say that is creative of him