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Solid wood LP's, dude sent me a bunch of close-ups, definitely solid, no staves. Got sniped on them at the last minute last night, guess it wasn't meant to be!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/170730452863?ss ... 1438.l2649

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Lol bro those belonged to olsongo here on the forum, I believe he also had a bata for sale.. I don't know if those LP PP's were solid tho...

b0ng0 wrote:Lol bro those belonged to olsongo here on the forum, I believe he also had a bata for sale.. I don't know if those LP PP's were solid tho...

Man, I wish I knew he was a forum member! He sent tons of pics directly to me, definitely soild shell, not stave, I've never seen any like them before.
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I bought them. I never heard of a carved solid-shell LP bongo either. I'll have to see them to believe it. Some may have been a steam curved plank with a single glue line.

I didn't ask for any pics and may not get to see them for a while. Post yours so we all can see them and comment.

What goes around comes around. I don't always keep stuff I pick up and you can't take it with you. Someday these bongos will go to someone else. I'll bring them here first.

Shoot me your e-mail and I'll forward them to you.

I had a feeling psych1 would get them, he's a mean sniper...Lol

Wow solid shell LP PP's, that's something now. Looking at some of them vintage
LP bongos I can tell LP back in the day was working with some exotic and very
interesting hardwoods. Congratulations!

I've been asking around - had some email exchange with Martin Cohen, and others. There were a few experiments but LP really didn't make solid shell wooden bongos commercially. What they did make, in the early 70's, were some bongos out of a foam that looks like wood. I'm now pretty sure that is what these are. Foam bongos! Will know for sure when I see them.

"Foam" that's even more interesting. I wonder if the material is something like what REMO uses on their conga and bongo drums.