40-year old virgin

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The guy thats selling this seems like a bit of a chancer. Might offer to swap him for my Squire guitar.

Eck
 
OK, here's my real problem with that deal.

If I were of mind to spend $35K on a vintage guitar in good condition, I would certainly want verification of its credentials. But for $35K that guitar had better have been untouched, allowing for verification by a vintage guitar expert of my choosing, only to be broken down by a mutually acceptable luthier if that was absolutely necessary for verification. I'm not sure that almost complete disassembly is necessary for that - maybe I'm wrong.

What we have here is a guitar shop auctioning a guitar for a lot of money, with picures that of themselves prove nothing except that someone has taken the guitar apart, and not particularly well. In the end you still end up purchasing sight unseen.
 
Elderly Instruments has a 1961 sunburst Strat for $18,000 and a 1963 red one for $9,500. They've both had a bit of work done, but you can trust them to be playable.
 
irishfolker said:
Elderly Instruments has a 1961 sunburst Strat for $18,000 and a 1963 red one for $9,500. They've both had a bit of work done, but you can trust them to be playable.
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That's a good point. I think it's generally agreed that any vintage instrument that has "had work done," even if it makes the guitar more playable, suffers some in resale value. Thus my insistence that any guitar being sold as vintage for $35K had better never have had any work done - including unnecessary disassembly by an unknown tech.
 
I think most people who spend more than $20k on a guitar do so for investment purposes.

That or they're just rich and want the most expensive guitar they can find to show it off to all their friends.

I would buy it if I knew I could sell it in 20 years for double (well, if I had the cash).
 
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.

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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My thoughts' exactly. If the neck was shimmed and he let them fall out....sheesh.

$1200 tops.
 
Buy it, run it through a few guitar/amp sims, then through a dig distortion VST in the DAW to tweak the tone somewhat eh?
 
first of all, i'm sure he/she is an expert in guitars, including assembly or repairs.
he/she is not a typical GC chum working on a 35k guitar.

IMO it's a beautiful piece. 35 is a bit steep for that guitar. in a condition as nice as that, its worth more like $18-23k.

hey, you want vintage, there you go. to someone, that guitar is worth every penny. atleast appreciate the care that was taken with that instrument over so many years.

notice the listing didnt have any words? if a picture is worth 1000 words, all the pics up there must total to like 1.2M words or soemthing, theres a lot of them..

we should all buy american standard strats or seomthing, and just build a humidity/temp controlled box for it and the case and store it for 40 years for our retirement funds. ;)
 
either they took good care of it, or forget it was in there closet, until their mum passed away and they had to clean out the house :D
 
Take a good look at the close-up pictures of the neck pocket, with the neck removed.

It looks like they gouged the body - there are some visible splinters sticking out of the side of the body.

Also note that finish peeled off the body when the input jack and neck mounting plate were removed. In the case of the neck plate, it's a pretty sizeable chunk.

Yep, pictures tell 1000 words.

It sure doesn't look like $35K to these eyes.
 
This auction is a joke. It's just a publicity stunt for Olivia's Vintage. Like someone is going to throw down a seemingly unprecedented amount of money on a guitar without going to see it first. That guy will go to olivia's and start looking around and decide to buy a bronco and tweed champ to go with it. Or any geek within an hour of carbondale is gonna drive over to see what they have and maybe buy a set of dean markleys so he can have a cool shopping bag with their logo.

If I was fucking Brittney Spears or some other jillionaire who buys stupid shit, I'd ask her to buy it for me. I'd play the shit out of it until the first time that I dinged it against the kitchen table and then I'd put it in a vault to pass down to future generations of cephii so they can donate it to a museum and take the tax deduction.
 
TragikRemix said:
first of all, i'm sure he/she is an expert in guitars, including assembly or repairs.
he/she is not a typical GC chum working on a 35k guitar.

IMO it's a beautiful piece. 35 is a bit steep for that guitar. in a condition as nice as that, its worth more like $18-23k.

hey, you want vintage, there you go. to someone, that guitar is worth every penny. atleast appreciate the care that was taken with that instrument over so many years.

notice the listing didnt have any words? if a picture is worth 1000 words, all the pics up there must total to like 1.2M words or soemthing, theres a lot of them..

we should all buy american standard strats or seomthing, and just build a humidity/temp controlled box for it and the case and store it for 40 years for our retirement funds. ;)
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Are you looking at the same guitar we are?

I'm subscribing to Zaphod B's point of view on this one.
 
cephus said:
This auction is a joke. It's just a publicity stunt for Olivia's Vintage. Like someone is going to throw down a seemingly unprecedented amount of money on a guitar without going to see it first.
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I wonder who posted that bid of $33,995.00? :rolleyes: ;)

Edit: Oops, sorry, that is their miminum starting bid. No one has bitten yet.
 
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