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Gibson Ripper Bass Gutiar

Photos of a Gibson bass guitar I sold on Ebay

Serial Number 966668

Manufactured in the USA in 1975, only one owner before me!

The Gibson Ripper Bass Guitar holds it's own unique style and is distinctive for both it's looks and it's thunderous sound! These are pretty hard to come by these days (especially in the UK) as not very many were sold at the original time of manufacture thanks to their very high price compared to the rest of the basses on the market.

The condition of this bass guitar is quite frankly awesome, I've seen a few of these now and have never seen a blonde one that compares to this one. There a few knocks and bangs but they are all very superficial and shallow.

I personally imported this lovely bass from a chap in America who was the original owner and I have never gigged it myself. It's absolutley gorgeous but alas I can't justify keeping something like this just to drool over, so it's time for it to find a good home.

Guitar Setup
I have recently (a few days ago) had this bass inspected and professionally setup by none other than Ian Crow at Amblin Man Studios, and he REALLY knows his stuff! The action on this Ripper is really nice, it suits pretty much all playing styles. Ian also gave this bass a service - Functional checks, tightened loose input skt, quick clean, cleaned and oiled machine head components to ease tuning action, adjusted action and intonation! The intonation has been declared as being perfect, however I've found with selling guitars on Ebay that intonation can be a matter of taste so I'm not giving this intonation as a 100% guarantee. Oh, and it's got a brand new set of strings on it! Please get in touch if you would like to see the invoice.

Click the photos for the huge and very detailed images of this Gibson Grabber Bass!

This auction includes the 'well loved' gibson case shown here, and by well loved I do of course mean totally shagged! No idea how it happened really, the bass is immaculate!

And here's the case, it's not so bad I guess, just old!

No scratching on the top of the headstock and a dead straight neck

The distinctive Gibson headstock

Oooh, what a sexy body!

You can see from this angle just how unmarked the body is

There's no scarring around the strap button, I'm guessing largely because this bass appears to have spent it's life in a caring home!

The original controls

The rather meaty bridge, that not many examples of the Ripper still have in place

The Ripper body is surprisingly slim, you can also see here that bar one very small nick the strap button is totally clean

The machine heads have all been cleaned and lubed

The serial number 966668, in between the two machine heads it says MADE IN USA

This Gibson ripper has pretty much no buckle rash, which is rare in such an old bass

Another example of how find the back is, you can see me there, hello!

Gratuitous full frontal!

This brass nut was fitted around 25 years ago according to the previous owner, and gives a lovely ringing clean sound which perfectly compliments the grunt this bass gives out

Ian Crow was good enough to send us this copy of the original Gibson specification sheet!

Click here to find out more about Gibson Ripper Basses on Wikipedia...

IMPORTANT STUFF TO READ BEFORE YOU BID

I will not ship guitars outside the UK, it's just too much of a pain in the bum!
I have described this guitar as accurately as possible, the plethora of photos is intended to fill any gaps in my description, however, you should still treat this auction as 'sold as seen'.
All guitars are non-returnable, there's nothing wrong with them (unless specified) but I can't take guitars back if you change your mind or decide you don't want it for some other reason
If you have a feedback rating below ten, or are a new ebayer then please contact me before bidding
I will not close auctions before the end date so don't bother asking
I prefer payment by PayPal or bank transfer, pay by cheque if you must, but you'll have to wait around twiddling your thumbs while it clears, I use postal banking so this can be anything up to two weeks!
If you live near Ipswich (Suffolk) then you are welcome to come and have a look at the guitar, but don't expect to take it away before the auction ends
If you live within 100 miles of me (see above!) I will deliver the guitar personally for £50
Check out my feedback, you'll see that most of it is from selling stuff. I only mention this because it's a lot harder to get good feedback when selling something than when buying it
I am a music nut, I have been playing in bands since the early days of puberty, guitars are more than nice lumps of wood to me, so I like to think they all go to good homes!

I listed this guitar on ebay on the 7th September 2007