Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Discussion of vintage Jazzmasters, Jaguars, Bass VIs, Electric XIIs and any other offset-waist instruments.
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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by biro » Wed Aug 09, 2017 1:51 pm

is the guy pictured next to the white strat and above the red sg (first pic, second post), robby krieger?
if not, who's that guy?

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Post by sikoniko » Wed Aug 09, 2017 2:55 pm

biro wrote:is the guy pictured next to the white strat and above the red sg (first pic, second post), robby krieger?
if not, who's that guy?
yes.

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by i love sharin foo » Wed Aug 09, 2017 3:01 pm

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Actually there is someone in the US with a vast collection, every colour made..including ones I have never seen before.
That's crazy!
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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by scottT » Wed Aug 09, 2017 4:19 pm

Yeah, the XII collection is a show stopper, but it's all custom color overload. What an incredible collection. Thank you for the pictures. I wonder which one is the most rare? Foam Green always catches my eye, because you just don't see it a lot. That Jazz bass and Bass VI. I seem to remember reading that there were two Foam Green Bass VI known (the one at Fretted Americana, and the one featured in Spinal Tap (don't even point at it). I don't know how they know that, but anyway...

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by FEXII » Thu Aug 10, 2017 1:19 am

scottT wrote:Yeah, the XII collection is a show stopper, but it's all custom color overload. What an incredible collection. Thank you for the pictures. I wonder which one is the most rare?
I'm not sure from the photo whether the one at the top is Sonic Blue or Daphne Blue. If it is Daphne Blue then it would be a close call between that and the Seafoam Green for the rarest color of that collection.

What's going on with the Black one, does it have stickers on it?

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by N0_Camping4U » Thu Aug 10, 2017 7:42 am

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I feel like the Jaguar is Firemist Silver - compared to the Ice Blue Fender XII. It looks different enough for me to feel like it's FMS.
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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by scottT » Thu Aug 10, 2017 8:47 am

You could be right. For me, yellowing can make it tricky to know from pictures. Especially the silvery ones--IBM, Firemist, Inca.

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by zhivago » Thu Aug 10, 2017 8:59 am

scottT wrote:You could be right. For me, yellowing can make it tricky to know from pictures. Especially the silvery ones--IBM, Firemist, Inca.
totally...and then there's the different amounts of yellowing of the clear coat, which affects the colour underneath (obviously).

It really isn't that easy to call it, IMO :)
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Post by biro » Sat Aug 12, 2017 3:21 am

sikoniko wrote:yes.
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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by l9gaj » Sun Aug 13, 2017 7:41 am

amazing collection

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Post by s_mcsleazy » Sun Aug 13, 2017 9:54 am

so many fantastic guitars there.
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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by Supa-Stang » Tue Aug 15, 2017 4:28 am

Thanks for posting these. Great pictures.

Conflicted about the fact they spend most of their life behind glass, but given these things are out of most peoples price range anyway I'm glad they are on display for the public rather than in some humidity controlled bank vault.

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by zepset » Tue Aug 15, 2017 3:30 pm

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by Arthon » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:08 am

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What is this Jazzmaster color? It looks like some kind of blue burst? If so, I never heard of that custom color.
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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by scottT » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:03 am

Arthon wrote: What is this Jazzmaster color? It looks like some kind of blue burst? If so, I never heard of that custom color.
The green Jaguar on the lower right has me a bit baffled. I've seen blue guitars shift to pea green due to yellowing, but this looks like a nice bright green unless I'm being mislead by the lighting in the photo.

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