40-year old virgin

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Wow. Nice. Lot of money for a post CBS guitar though, no matter how pristine the condition is.
 
Man, now that I know how precious a piece of wood, some strings, and a pick are, maybe i'll take better care of my axe.
 
Jeez, thats right here in town, they sure must have that well hidden from all the crazy students in town-or they better put it in a vault!! :eek:
 
as i scrolled down the page looking at the pictures, it was as if a $35k guitar was falling to bits in front of my eyes... i wonder if he's going to post it to the winner piece by piece? :p

Andy.
 
First, it's not pristine by any stretch of the imagination. There is significant pitting in the chrome plating and a few bonks and scratches.

Second, the guitar has been disassembled, and reassembled, by an unknown party. That puts its value, to me, at about $200. :mad:

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Zaphod B said:
First, it's not pristine by any stretch of the imagination. There is significant pitting in the chrome plating and a few bonks and scratches.
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Yep, I saw the pitting, but even with that considered, it's still the best forty year old strat I've seen in a long time.
 
For 35G's you could have 15 or 20 made just like it for you. It's just a plank.

You could also have an axe custom made for you amd have around 10G's left over.
 
I'll be damned if I pay 35k for a strat and then have to fork out $370 for shipping. :p
 
I mean, really. :rolleyes: And why do these people find it necessary to disassemble the things? That's a deal-killer for me, even for a guitar that's not expensive.
 
Zaphod B said:
I mean, really. :rolleyes: And why do these people find it necessary to disassemble the things? That's a deal-killer for me, even for a guitar that's not expensive.
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Why would disassembling a guitar drop the value for you? I'm missing your logic. I happen to think that removing the neck from a guitar, if it's a bolt on, before shipping is a good idea.
 
TravisinFlorida said:
Why would disassembling a guitar drop the value for you? I'm missing your logic. I happen to think that removing the neck from a guitar, if it's a bolt on, before shipping is a good idea.
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I agree, especially so you can see the stamping. If its a glued neck, maybe a different story, but removing the neck on a strat or tele won't hurt anything.
 
Maybe it's just me, but in my mind "original" condition means "as it left the factory." Not disassembled and reassembled by some yahoo who may or may not know what the fuck he's doing. It's not as if there is nothing that can go wrong - the neck could be shimmed incorrectly on reinstall, or a real idiot could even strip the threads in the body.

Please note the small chips in the neck pocket on that guitar....wonder how that happened? :rolleyes: And when they removed the input jack, they managed to pull the finish off the body underneath it.

As far as shipping with a neck removed is concerned....the factories don't do it, and no one else should need to, either, if it is packed correctly.
 
Zaphod B said:
Maybe it's just me, but in my mind "original" condition means "as it left the factory." Not disassembled and reassembled by some yahoo who may or may not know what the fuck he's doing. It's not as if there is nothing that can go wrong - the neck could be shimmed incorrectly on reinstall, or a real idiot could even strip the threads in the body.

Please note the small chips in the neck pocket on that guitar....wonder how that happened? :rolleyes: And when they removed the input jack, they managed to pull the finish off the body underneath it.

As far as shipping with a neck removed is concerned....the factories don't do it, and no one else should need to, either, if it is packed correctly.
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If anything, disassembling the guitar will reveal any markings that could help to verify authenticity or defects in workmanship.

Surely some yahoo that's asking 35k for a guitar has the good sense to disassemble the thing with a little care. It really requires nothing more than common sense.

Guitars aren't always shipped with a hardshell case. If that's the case, removing the neck is definately a good idea. I think it's a good idea any way. There's always that chance. Why chance it? Removing four screws can guarantee no stress at the neck joint during shipping.
 
I actually did some work on a guitar that was bought off ebay. The guy bought a really nice used American strat for about 6-700 dollars. The action was not very good, so he wanted me to do a setup. Upon further inspection, I got the feeling that something wasn't quite right. The body looked strange, not like any fender I'd seen, the saddles didn't look right, the tremolo didn't look right, even the knobs didn't look right. I disasembled the guitar (upon consent) and low and behold some guy had taken a fender (at least I presume fender) neck and put it on a really cheap ass strat-style body and the two didn't match up and the guitar was unplayable. I don't mind seeing a guitar taken apart so that I can see verification. Not that someone can't fake it, but its one more layer of confidence.
 
You're bitching about the imaginary condition of a guitar that costs more than you and your wife's cars put together?

I agree that it seems like way too much money for a hunk of wood with a spaghetti logo. But, it also looks far too good to have been played much, if any. I think it is perhaps historically significant to someone with an attention to detail. That said, backing all the screws out and screwing them back in, and buffing off any residual corrosion protection to make the hardware temporarily shine is probably a bit like using a backhoe to excavate an ancient egyptian burial mound.

I can see both points. I think Fender should buy it and measure it and weigh it and take wood samples and MRI it and see if they could learn anything to make their production guitars have some synthetic magic in them. Those relics totally don't seem like old guitars to me. They remind me of the pirates of the carribean ride at disneyworld.
 
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