Obviously the price in that ebay auction is not a realistic price. It is rather 'tulip auction' style: offering it for a very high price, and if nobody buys it the price will be reduced about 100 €. I think he started at 16k and has now reached 14,800. Sooner or later of course someone will buy it...
I did not buy one of the MK LPs myself, maybe a mistake.. what frustrated me was that only the 50 handsigned ones seem to be a full hide-glue construction. I started to build my own guitars and was at that time in fact just experimenting with hot glide glue myself, fascinating stuff, it becomes crystallic hard, lasts for ages, and can even be opened with heat and moisture any time.
Of course you might argue that the kind of glue is not so important for the sound ... but who knows, these things are hard to investigate. Gibson changed to the production-friendly Titebond glue in '64 I think, and of course nobody says the guitars after '64 were inferior to the ones before ... (really nobody...??
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Also I was not sure if only these 50 were the exact replica of Mark's guitar, with the same neck profile, pickup specs etc. or if all are this way - the Gibson website was a bit unclear here.
For these reasons I would have loved to go for one of the 50 but these were out of my financial reach.
Nevertheless, all the MK LPs are surely great guitars and excelllent investments ... so everbody who bought one should be happy
