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Light said:
Oh no, the modern pickups are much better than most of the CBS era pickups. MUCH better.


And no, not the television CBS folks. At least, not as I understand it. CBS was (maybe still is) a big corporate holding company. They bought manufacturers and tried to make them more "efficient". Didn't have much to do with making the products better, though.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
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Light,

it is/was the television folks...
 
Back on topic...

I played a MIM Custom Shop Baja Tele and it was HANDS DOWN the best Fender I've ever played. No I haven't played any 50's or 60's stuff, but tons of 70's 80's 90's and new models. The Baja had a REALLY snappy but deep sound...very woody...both acoustic and through the pickups (which were way better than the stock MIM or MIA tele ones). Big fat neck (too fat for me) but great medium jumbo frets that were PERFECTLY dressed. Not a single dead spot or snag...the Gibson folks might want to pay attention.

Seriously if I were in the market for a new guitar, that'd be the one. If they made them with a little smaller necks I'd probably have tried to find a way to trade something in and put it on credit. And then offer in in a sunburst... :p
 
Seems toi me that the model designations are based more on QC and measured tolerances than whether John Smith made it or Hector Consuela. I think that Fender does a pretty good job at offereing alot of models along the price points. I never thought the US ones were worth as much as a Gibson, just because a bolt-on neck guitar is pretty easy to build versus the set-neck gibsons.

Not that I like gibsons. I use fender-ish guitars. I'm just saying that even the shitty ones can possibly be made to sound and play as well as some of the >$1000 fenders. I'd never pay $500 extra just for cosmetics and resale value (since I never sell any guitars).
 
frenzy...

pikingrin said:
Would it technically be worth the investment to purchase one in the hopes that the value would increase in the future (like the '59 and '65)? ;)
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I think so, for now. Read an article on the Baby-Boomer's and they are driving the "collectibles" or Antiques as I call it. I think there's a time-window to cash-in though.

This frenzy changes from generation to generation, the frenzy of collecting has gone to Rock collectibles in a big way. The current crowd with money chose Rock N Roll memorabilia including guitars. However the buying crowds age may go from Sinatra-Crosby stuff, to Elvis, to the BEatles to Led Zepplin to...

Who would have known?
My neighbor sold a 57 Strat for $10,000 original case, original booklets...he never played it and it sat under his bed. He needed to pay for hospital bills.
He said "you don't want to know what I did with my Fender amp I bought the same year!!"
(he threw the amp away one day cleaning out his garage.a bulky heavy piece of blonde tolex curb-side garbage! :eek: )

Nobody really predicted this stuff would be going for $30,000 dollars or that Hendrix guitars would be auctioned at Christies for Microsoft Exec's and BabyBoomer millionaires.

These old pre-CBS Strats are like frkn Stradivaruius violins of this generation!!! And there is the rarity factor that has the "magic", they only made a few thousand a year compared to millions of guitars a quarter now.

Timing...
Its always the last guy in the frenzy that gets burnt....like the last dewd that bought 3 semi-truck loads of Beanie Babys for $300,000 rigth before they turned into Garage Sale worthless crap. The frenzy was over and he had 3 semi loads and $300,000 of beanie-babies nobody wanted. HAHAHAHAHAA
 
32-20-Blues said:
btw, 3 grand for a seventies strat is a little steep. I've seen examples in great condition for just over two. Now, if you want a tip for a vintage guitar likely to increase dramatically in value while still costing less than a thousand bucks...check out a pre-CBS Fender Musicmaster, all original, in Desert Sand finish. You should pay 1,500 absolut maximum, and get an original hardcase with it. Put it under the bed for thirty years, sell it, then retire.
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What about, say, a 60's (or early 70's, can't remember) fender mustang? I have read through some threads here that people don't care for them, but as long as it's "vintage" it still seems to be able to carry some sort of value...
 
pikingrin said:
What about, say, a 60's (or early 70's, can't remember) fender mustang? I have read through some threads here that people don't care for them, but as long as it's "vintage" it still seems to be able to carry some sort of value...
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Yeah, Mustangs might command good prices in the future, hard to tell... Put it this way, if the market continues the way its going at the moment for another ten years, it'll be a good investment. In the last five or six years alone, the less obvious Fender models have gone up in price considerably. Some may not care fr the Mustang, but they're still collectible. Be careful of any seventies models (see concerns above). Go for as early as possible, obviously, and get the original case with it when you can.
 
but as long as it's "vintage" it still seems to be able to carry some sort of value...
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That's it.
Just because a guitar is older doesn't make it better.

I had a chance to pick up a 70's Tele from a friend and it was no better than a new MIM Tele IMHO.
 
acidrock said:
That's it.
Just because a guitar is older doesn't make it better.

I had a chance to pick up a 70's Tele from a friend and it was no better than a new MIM Tele IMHO.
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I'd definitely agree with you. The Fender Bronco, for example, although a 'vintage' guitar, is one of the worst sounding electrics ever made.
 
acidrock said:
That's it.
Just because a guitar is older doesn't make it better.

I had a chance to pick up a 70's Tele from a friend and it was no better than a new MIM Tele IMHO.
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So it really just comes down to picking it off the wall and playing around on it a little bit, to see if it fits you or not. That sucks. I want an old guitar. :o I have an old '67 epiphone acoustic, but I want an electric too... :D
 
The whole "American Made" guitar thing baffels me. It's not 1983 anymore ya know. There is some great stuff coming out of china. I really don't like that fact but it is true none the less.

It's nostalgia.
 
pikingrin said:
So it really just comes down to picking it off the wall and playing around on it a little bit, to see if it fits you or not. That sucks. I want an old guitar. :o I have an old '67 epiphone acoustic, but I want an electric too... :D
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If you are really hell bent on an older guitar, check out these guys. This is a great shop that does a really good job buying and selling guitars.

http://www.williesguitars.com/index.cfm?sector=user&page=products&MMID=1

It would be much easier to plop down $2000-$3000 here than GC or Ebay for me.
 
It seems like finding affordable American made crap has become almost impossible unless you want to buy a gun or a knife.
 
bambo said:
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-They can custom order any guitar if you can’t find anything you like that is in stock our of 40+ guitars
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acidrock said:
That's it.
Just because a guitar is older doesn't make it better.

I had a chance to pick up a 70's Tele from a friend and it was no better than a new MIM Tele IMHO.
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WTF was I thinking when I posted this?

I ended up buying that Tele!
 
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