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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | I think a big part of the reason that vintage instruments have become high ticket items is Japan. They are so obsessed with everything American, that Japanese collectors are buying out whole collections and shipping them back home. I have a friend who goes to all of the big guitar shows across the country. He says that he has witnessed whole booths of guitars bought out by a single buyer from Japan. I'm not insinuating that this is good or bad in any political or racial sense, but I do believe that it has driven guitar prices through the roof. There are even sellers out there who refuse to sell to anyone who plan to remove the instruments off shore. They contend that it's a loss of American history and identity when classic items leave our shores. I would guess the same way,(but to a much lesser extent), the Egyptians feel about all of their artifacts being spread over the globe. For the most part, the guitars I have bought were purchased before they became collectible. I just cannot afford or justify the prices in the current market. And I am now looking at some guitar lines that aren't collectible yet, but may well be in the future.
Just to show how crazy this has all become, Teisco Delrays were sold in discount stores when I was a kid. Most priced $60.00 to $80.00. Now there is a growing market for these and the prices for some models have skyrocketed. Maybe it's just sour grapes on my part because I threw away about a dozen of these things over the years.
Who'd A Thunk......
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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | P.S.
Hey GWB, how much for the roach?? |
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Location: NJ | the vintage market in any collectible field is fickle.
Sure I had people beg me to sell them instruments so they would "stay in the states" to see them getting hundreds of dollars more for the same guitar as they sold it to an exporter.
I learned that lesson real fast. It is a global market now. I think selling to whomever pays the price is the american way. There is just as much discrimination saying you will not sell to a forgien buyer as there is selling only in the usa.
as the world economies become more intermingled, we will see more international trading going on.
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Location: Buffalo,NY | Here's my '63 Strat:
 
I bought it a few years ago for $8000.00 . It certainly has appreciated. I actually gig with it ! I have it tuned to an open G and have removed one of the e strings so I can play 3 Stones songs with it. The neck is incredible and the tones of the pickups are very sweet. Nothing plays or sounds like this guitar.
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Location: Michigan | Oh shucks Cc you should of asked me a couple of days ago I still had it then.
Sorry it has been used up .Thanks for the inquire about it.
DO NOT DO THE BROWN ACID FROM WOODSTOCK... GWB |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Coincidentally Tom, I was just watching a lesson on Open G tunings... I was just thinking about tuning one of my guitar that way, so I can do Honky Tonk Woman. (or whichever)
It seems like a good idea, being as I have eight guitars, and I can only play one at a time.
Don't know about the removing a string trick, or just muting the sixth. |
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Location: Buffalo,NY | Old Man Arthur
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Coincidentally Tom, I was just watching a lesson on Open G tunings... I was just thinking about tuning one of my guitar that way, so I can do Honky Tonk Woman. (or whichever)
It seems like a good idea, being as I have eight guitars, and I can only play one at a time.
Don't know about the removing a string trick, or just muting the sixth. In order to play Brown Sugar , 19th Nervous Breakdown and Start Me Up you really need the tuning and to remove one string. Keith removes the low E string; I remove the high E string for a little more beafiness to the sound. If you have a guitar to spare , try it out.
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Location: NJ | I think Keef takes the low E off so that he can "tie off" with it . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That's true, you need a string with a hollow ball, not the solid ball like the Adamas strings. |
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Location: Stow, Ohio | It is funny how people toss the word vintage around.
I was in a music store the other day when a kid came in with an old 60's cheap Japanese Vox copy and wanted $500.00 for it. I laughed at him and asked him who said it was worth that much. he said a friend of his who is in the music store business said it was. I asked him "well, why didn't he buy it?"
I told him that it was a turd 40 years ago and it was just a petrified turd today, worth nothing more than a cool conversation piece, or wall hanging.
he did have the original case and believe it or not the original owners manual was still in the case. to bad it wasn't a real piece. because having all of that would have increased the value.
I don't understand the 70's Fenders and the 80's Les Paul's.. you couldn't give Fenders away in the 70's and Gibsons where dogs in the 80's.
actually the Vintage market is being fueled by Dr's, Lawyers, Investment Bankers that have more $$$$ than common sense, and ofcourse need to compensate for a few short comings.
It will be funny if the Vintage guitar market bottom falls out....just like the Beanie Babies craze.
I do miss my Fender Bassman 50 head late 60's.
To bad I had it in the 80's when I was young and naive, then it was just an old Fender. today would be worth some $$$ |
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