LeftyBassist.com

Still shaking my head. I don't know which is the more bizarre the description or the modifications on the bass itself.

https://reverb.com/item/38190050-p-bass ... s-by-pcsgc

Yep, that would be Mark D Phillips, and the sad part is this seller calls himself a luthier and has been doing stuff like this for YEARS in a fairly successful eBay shop

He buys cheap 7-string guitars and converts them into wide-necked 6-strings for ham-fisted people, and he butchers cheap Gear4music B-stock acoustics into "thumb style" guitars. He's been going at this for years, and his work is just plain awful.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/mdphillips19 ... 7675.l2562

At one point there was even one of these Hitler rant clips made about him (with the famous bunker scene from Der Untergang) but sadly I can't find it anymore. Here is the man himself "demoing" a Perfect Balance Jazz Bass though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI0QG2kDfb0

Jeroen wrote:Yep, that would be Mark D Phillips, and the sad part is this seller calls himself a luthier and has been doing stuff like this for YEARS in a fairly successful eBay shop

He buys cheap 7-string guitars and converts them into wide-necked 6-strings for ham-fisted people, and he butchers cheap Gear4music B-stock acoustics into "thumb style" guitars. He's been going at this for years, and his work is just plain awful.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/mdphillips19 ... 7675.l2562

At one point there was even one of these Hitler rant clips made about him (with the famous bunker scene from Der Untergang) but sadly I can't find it anymore. Here is the man himself "demoing" a Perfect Balance Jazz Bass though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI0QG2kDfb0

WOW! No double WOW! After I read this I looked at his other Reverb listings and they are maybe even more bizarre. I think the descriptions and reasoning for what he does are more bizarre than the guitars themselves. The list goes on and on. Here's one of the stranger ones.

https://reverb.com/item/34084791-p-j-ba ... man-custom

crescenze wrote:

Jeroen wrote:Yep, that would be Mark D Phillips, and the sad part is this seller calls himself a luthier and has been doing stuff like this for YEARS in a fairly successful eBay shop

He buys cheap 7-string guitars and converts them into wide-necked 6-strings for ham-fisted people, and he butchers cheap Gear4music B-stock acoustics into "thumb style" guitars. He's been going at this for years, and his work is just plain awful.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/mdphillips19 ... 7675.l2562

At one point there was even one of these Hitler rant clips made about him (with the famous bunker scene from Der Untergang) but sadly I can't find it anymore. Here is the man himself "demoing" a Perfect Balance Jazz Bass though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI0QG2kDfb0

WOW! No double WOW! After I read this I looked at his other Reverb listings and they are maybe even more bizarre. I think the descriptions and reasoning for what he does are more bizarre than the guitars themselves. The list goes on and on. Here's one of the stranger ones.

https://reverb.com/item/34084791-p-j-ba ... man-custom

I was holding it together until i noticed the scalloped neck...... then it was time to run away screaming

YIKES
I have soft spot for fugly instruments, but these are even too much for me. I don’t get how people justify trying to sell this stuff. I’m all for experimentation, but keep it in the basement my man.