"The thing I'm noticing with a lot of these "vintage" Fenders is that they sit around for a long time."
My '66 Jazzmaster gets played all the time!! But you are correct about ones for sale. Most are a tad overpriced to say the least in gbaseland.
current economic climate / vintage guitar world
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Oct 16, 2008 1:37 p.m. kelvinator60:
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Oct 16, 2008 1:45 p.m. tartan phantom:
I subscribe to Vintage Guitar Magazine. I look through the vintage dealer ad listings and either laugh or shake my head most of the time. When you see 1-pickup Danelectro-made Silvertones listed for upwards of $500 without the amp-case, then you know something is seriously wrong. For the last few years, most of the so-called "vintage" market has been geared towards those folks "with more money than sense." I'll wait until cooler heads prevail.
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Oct 16, 2008 3:44 p.m. Thilton59:
Looks like maybe some people are still sane...
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Oct 16, 2008 5:19 p.m. DCBirdMan:
The famous "Yikes Guitar" has been offered"""
Yeah, we've been following the Yikes dude for years now... some people won't accept reality, and so you have to conclude they are not really interested in selling the guitar -- just if sucker money comes along.
I still feel that as time goes by and guitar heads from a certain era get old and ancient, a lot of hoarded up guitars will come on the market -- and the buyers won't be there, at least at what these dudes think they are worth. And once it crosses a level it can't go back down -- they think. Prices can come down on any of this stuff.
As far as the comment on Strats-- yes, thousands of them, but a lot were hacked, due to being easy to refinish, and then the whole aftermarket parts thing that got going around 30 yrs ago. Who remembers the ca. 1979-80 'brass/mass is better' craze... And some of us ancients remember when Stratocasters were some of the least wanted guitars around. The rock guitar world has just not gotten over Hendrix, as great as he was. He will soon have been dead for 40 freekin years. So for whatever reason, 50s and 60s Fender Strats just have a snob appeal, etc. which I have no prob. with since I don't pay any attention to that scene. The dudes I know are buying early 80s Tokai strats, upgrading a few parts and have a killer player for $400, instead of $40000.
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Oct 16, 2008 6:38 p.m. audiodrome:
My 1983 Made In USA '62 Reissue Strat is easily one of the best guitars I've ever played. The thing smokes! It's cool because it is 25 years old and I've played the shit out of it, so now it looks like a real '62.
In the late '70s, I remember going into guitar stores in Boston and seeing a lot of early '60s Strats for $500-$1000, but at the time, that was out of my price range. Then, in the early '80s, I had a friend whose father had a yellow '61 Strat and I used to play it all the time and I wanted one really bad, but by then the vintage prices had gone up considerably, so I was psyched when I found out Fender was going to reissue them (of course I ordered a yellow one). If I remember correctly, the price was around $700.
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