Anyone seen this proto-type on ebay...?

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/CLARENCE-WHITES-VINTAGE-1968-FENDER-TELECASTER-B-BENDER-PROTOTYPE-/130542109589?pt=Guitar&hash=item1e64ea8395

http://home.comcast.net/~musicgearama/DSCN7235WEB.jpg

Thats cool, looks like it could give quite the purple nurple though!

Yikes! Won't anyone ever "invest" in that thing????

asastfan....I think that used to belong to Clarence's dog!

You must be right Dave....I think I can see some paw prints on that thing! I just wonder if there's any documentation to verify.

That thing has come up before on eBay IIRC.

that resembles the bender unit on the back of the Les Paul Jr. that Frank Rekard played when he was with Emmylou Harris. It had that same long piece and everything......JH in Va.

Stay away from it. Many people have suggested that It is definitely not Clarence's. Even Gene Parsons doesn't remember anything about it.

The story unfolding around this thing has become like a Monty Python skit. Do a little googling and searching the tdpri. Bob Warford, you're a lawyer....can't we stop this guy?

Clarence was never associated with this atrocity...

That would look cool on a Steampunk guitar:

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbjnq0kWAI1qechszo1_500.jpg

Painted on grain? :shock:

+1.
Rube Goldberg called, he wants his prototype b-Bender back.....

Sorry guys, we should bump this to the Bad Dog Café....

That bender has poped up before. I'd stay away from it.

+1

looks like a steering lock with a guitar attached to fool thieves

Stealing this would get the police involved. That might solve this once and for all.
P.S. djalt does not promote theft. Only honesty and integrity and respect, especially for great guitar players who have passed away.

You must be right Dave....I think I can see some paw prints on that thing! I just wonder if there's any documentation to verify.I'm sure Mr. Haney has all the documents you need, Mr. Douglass.

This is when Roger McGuinn had a mid-life crisis.

That monstrosity will never go away till some maroon buys it and burns it to powder and throws the ashes in the Mississippi river during a torrential rainstorm..........

+1 for the fantastic imagery conjured up just then.....

nice neck!

Even if we assume that this is 100% real, I think it's waaaay overpriced. I just wasted 9 minutes watching the YouTube videos that swear it's legit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw37NfbxLjk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LM_a7Z4OVw

i wonder if it's a real 1968 or is that fake too?

I bet the "bicycle hub" was actually off a wheelchair.....

Commenting further just keeps this zombie alive....
D'oh! I just revived the monster.... :(

OK, hopefully Paul can find a way to kill any more threads regarding this...thing.

FWIW, here is Bart Haney's "resume":

With Bart Haney and Clarence White, (Roger) Bush was briefly part of a short-lived country group called Trio in 1966.

Isn't anyone hear wealthy enough to buy that damned thing just to burn it and post the video on YouTube?

....maybe they would have more luck on eBay by relisting it as a cucumber slicer...:shock:

Maybe, every time this auction comes up, someone else should list a $.99 auction for documentation that the guitar in question is NOT what it is represented.

Y'all don't mind if I close this thread, do you? Just to let it disappear into the archives?

I didn't think so!

Tim