Gibson's Grabber bass & Marauder guitar were both conceived and produced during the Norlin era - the 'dark days' of Gibson that gave rise to all the Japanese clone brands. Neither design was very popular but they are getting a bit in demand nowadays just because they are so damned weird! The prices tend to stay lower than your traditional Gibson styles, though. You can also marvel at the strange design of the Sonex, L6-S, Spirit, S1, "The Paul" and more.skeeter wrote:Bingo! My friend who was looking this over for me had worked in a music store as a teenager/early twentysomething, and he had suggested it was a copy of a Gibson model - he thought a Gibson Grabber, but I looked that up and it was a bass. He was closer than he thought. The Marauder picture is right on - even the contoured LP style body. I'll get a close up so you can see the pickup configs - maybe later this week - bizzy here for the next couple of days.
BTW - that Marauder pic from wikipedia - the article says Gibson only made 1400 of them... I wonder if el Degas made more or fewer than that?
Barry and charles - thanx. This is what the internet was made for.
Skeeter.
I'm going to expand on the Norlin era in a new thread, http://www.eldegas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=691
(13 bass, 26 electric, 3 acoustic)