Some info tooked on http://www.lieberguitars.com/ about the spellbinder bass:
The 70's was a busy decade for Lieber Instruments. In 1979, Stanley Clarke became the proud owner of a custom Spider Grinder acoustic bass. At that time, Stanley was also playing Rick Turner’s first graphite neck, through body, Alembic electric bass. Stanley loved the graphite neck, and felt that an all composite bass was the way to go. He commissioned Tom to design such a bass. | |
Stanley approved the design and Tom built a prototype guitar which required four patents to handle the innovations. Stanley loved the bass, and in a joint venture, Tom and Stanley formed the Spellbinder Corporation in 1980. Spellbinder produced a limited edition run of fifty spellbinder basses. One additional custom left-handed version was built at Stanley’s request, as a personal gift from Stanley to Paul McCartney. The run was a success and, as planned, the Spellbinder molds were destroyed to insure the instrument’s value. | |
The black spellbinder here #3 and #4 were personally owned by stanley clarke and acquired from him in 2000
http://www.lieberguitars.com/spellbinder.htm
New Spellbinders prototype
These are the prototypes of a very limited run that spellbinder should come out with starting september 07
For anyone interested the retail price is 3600$ Look here for all other informations:
http://www.lieberguitars.com/spellbindersale.htm
Spellbinder (prototype) 2002
Spellbinder (prototype) 2004
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