pickups-tunning gears-bridges

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Stan Williams

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Has anyone noticed how $ all the guitar hardware is getting. Some pickups $150 each, tunning gears $60, bridges $45 and up, not to mention wood. I 'm in the guitar building and repairing business, and i can't afford the parts. I now pay $45 for the same bridge i use to pay $15 for. I don't know why i started this thread, i guess i was just thinking out loud.
 
I know what you mean. It seems like my vintage amps and guitars are worth more $ if I sell the individual parts. The guitar industry is getting like the classic car industry. High demand and low quantites of original parts has driven up prices. Which in turn drives the price for reproduction parts. Also I think that the after market guitar part companies can raise their prices because they know we will still buy their goods. Have you tried getting an original replacement part from Gibson lately? It's such a hassle to deal with the factories and the prices are too high. Gibson, Fender, ect. no longer keep the stockpiles of spare parts that they used too in order to cut cost. The after market companies know what a hassle it is and offer us convienence------at a price.
Then there is the cost of R&D and "better" tchnology that we gladly run out to the stores for. But that is a whole other issue.
 
I couldn't afford new guitars when I started playing in the 60s.So me and my brothers got used 50s Gibsons and Fenders for $100 or less.The last guitar show I went to, I saw a 60s era strat neck-only going for $1000!The young guys today may never know what its like to own and play a vintage instrument.The one that got away?I traded a late 30s Gibson ES125 for a Tele just out of college.
Tom
 
dumb !

That reminds me when I first started playing, too long ago to think about. I was in a pawn shop looking for a tele and the guy tried to sell me a goldtop 57 for $125 and a 59 sunburst $150 and I told him they were UGLY !
DUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMBBBBBBBBBB !
 
Yeah Stan W
Was a time you couldn't give those ugly bastids away . . .
now everyone is going gaga over the old stuff. I always thought the goldtop was a thing of beauty, though . . .
especially the ones with cream colored cobalts and matching pickguard, like the one I used to own waaaaaaaaa . . .
 
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