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Another dealer masquerading as a private seller.
Regularly overprices stuff (which he's bought from eBay/wherever) by about 50%.
Been at it for years.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
owners say the quality varies dramatically, so unless it's in your hands it's difficult to know what you are getting (ie. letting yourself in for) if you buy online. the early necks in particular known for 'eccentric' tunings.
i listened to an interview with mr weill re the early days that made the FW brand sound like a generic umbrella organisation that hustled a bit everything for everyone on the electrical side (when overnight brands used to nail pickups to anything guitar shaped).
similarly they took in woodwork to add electrics to in the same way. some came from burns and some from manufacturers in central/eastern europe (hohner one i think).
so that would explain why the quality is so up and down, no fixed single manufacturer responsible. but even burns in the early days were hit and miss, so aiming for a 'fenton by burns' no guarantee of a good one.
i think the listing is wrong to date it as early. all the early fentons i've seen had the rounded 'sponge finger' shaped pickups, while the later ones (post 1963) had the square 'jacobs club' ones.
my preference is for the really out-there fentons, the 'geometric flying saucer nervous breakdown' shapes, but that one is still smart looking and tidy for its years.
Harry knows his prices far better than i, but it seems excessive from my memory of the few i have seen actually sell. £400 for a special guitar and £350 for a bass (less demand for bases) seems more realistic.
@Funkfingers - it looks like shit, along with every other F-W on the planet. If my experience is anything to go by, it will probably play like it too. And £750 is just taking the piss.
*Sigh* Sorry, @vale! I love quirky, but most of the time, the "frontier spirit" of early UK brands actually does very little for me - truss rod-less necks like fence posts, aesthetics often "challenging", scant regard for any form of ergonomics and a build quality directly related to the amateur luthiers joiners who made them - often better-suited to knocking up a bit of trellis for the garden or some wartime 'utility' furniture. Quite often, they look like someone built it from badly drawn-up plans which were based on a conversation with someone who'd never actually seen an electric guitar.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
'it was shit, even when it was new, so didn't sell many, which is why there are so few still around".
Either that or ...
"rare?? better it be well done, or better still - burnt to a crisp".
but bearing in mind what the average grubby post-skiffle juvenile could afford to pay for an instrument at the time, and the fact it was a totally new industry and ideas about construction still being explored (truss rods), that goes to explain why quality luthiers may have not seen a viable market for themselves, and the joiners (who filled that skills vaccuum) may have been groping around for reliable info re construction.
hence they are totally try before you buy. some were ok to begin with, some have been made good after the fact, and then there are the dogs.
i strongly doubt if anyone at any of the electric guitar factories (even fender-gibson) in those days were building instruments to last sixty years plus (1958-2018). six years maybe.
i like the shapes though. am surprised you dislike them so much, but your tastes never fail to surprise me and i don't think anyone on the forum would have you any other way!
since prices are going stupid now, i think best policy re these is to diy a built-to-better-standards clone.
https://guitar-auctions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lot0115.jpg
and (this is gonna hurt!) the fenton weill rpg bass. the boss.
http://blackguitars.com/IMAGES/gallery/burns-early-reference/Jet with Weill.jpg
so this whole subject is welcome to my dream bass universe. be very afraid...
or you're just playing hard to get. yield to your inner bass pervert!
The OP is just teasing.
I suspect that this guy was being sarcastic. < sarcasm emoji >