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https://notomguitars...on-es-125-tcd-1

 

...although, of course, it's an ES-125 TDC......glad to see I'm not the only one who makes typos!

 

Pip.

 

EDIT : This (linked) website also highlights one of my pet hates; namely when items are sold but still appear on the page. In the case of No. Tom there are 161 electric guitars on show but only 43 can currently be bought. That means almost 75% of those instruments shown are NOT available. Utterly Ludicrous State of Affairs!

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https://notomguitars...on-es-125-tcd-1

 

...although, of course, it's an ES-125 TDC......glad to see I'm not the only one who makes typos!

 

Pip.

 

EDIT : This (linked) website also highlights one of my pet hates; namely when items are sold but still appear on the page. In the case of No. Tom there are 161 electric guitars on show but only 43 can currently be bought. That means almost 75% of those instruments shown are NOT available. Utterly Ludicrous State of Affairs!

My Gibson R7 from there never even made it to their website;

They listed it on their Instagram in September (I bought it in November)...

They have more guitars on their Instagram page than on their website.

https://www.instagram.com/notomguitars/

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£8,363.60GBP + £45.45 Shipping

Incl. VAT

Today's price?

 

(curse you ForEx pips, and yay stronger native currency)?

The price changed, I can only blame the currency market dictating a different exchange rate and price.

These prices are alive!?

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Used 2001 Gibson Les Paul '58 reissue...Miami, FL...£3, 000.00 before import duty to get this guitar to me in London...

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By the time you have added Import Duty and, of course, VAT (20% on the total cost) it will work out at roughly £3,700 - which is £300 more than a brand new '58 RI;

 

https://www.thomann....d_58_ft_vos.htm

 

Paying £300 more for a 17 year-old guitar is hardly the deal of a lifetime, wouldn't you say?

And the Thomann RI is (IMO) far more attractive into the bargain.

 

However, YMMV I suppose.

 

Pip.

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By the time you have added Import Duty and, of course, VAT (20% on the total cost) it will work out at roughly £3,700 - which is £300 more than a brand new '58 RI;

 

https://www.thomann....d_58_ft_vos.htm

 

Paying £300 more for a 17 year-old guitar is hardly the deal of a lifetime, wouldn't you say?

And the Thomann RI is (IMO) far more attractive into the bargain.

 

However, YMMV I suppose.

 

Pip.

Ah, you see, £3, 700.00 isn't unreasonable and matches up with cost of buying the same guitar in my native habitat; so I'd be neither losing or gaining from such a choice; however, it's a 2001. :D

It's a good era for Gibson Reissue IMO.

Like fine wine, certain vintages comes down in variants to this guitar's serial numbers and badges.

This 2001 looks cool, I guess; is a '58, before anything like R crept into the serial number and it's not an anniversary badge/reissue badge; it's just a Gibson Les Paul R8 for £3, 700.00

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Not wanting to start a bunfight, LWAG, but taking your points in order;

 

As far as native habitat goes we live about 3 miles apart so I know exactly how much reissues cost hereabouts having played well over a hundred during the last decade. The £300 price hike still stands.

 

Good eras for reissues? Unlike the finest produce from Bordeaux or Burgundy there are no good- nor bad years for reissues. Some individual guitars are 'better-preferred' than others for any one particular player but the year made doesn't come into the matter. In point of fact the more recent ones are considerably closer to the originals in the authenticity stakes which might make these current guitars far more desirable than the earlier attempts.

Some folks say the tops from 1997 are the 'best' ever by which they are alluding to the habit of Gibson using a flame-enhancing technique during this time. All four of my LPs - including an R9 and an R0 - date from between '91 and '95 so it might be thought that I like something about that period but I'd never claim that there was magic pixie dust being used at the start of the '90s nor that all LPs built since '95 are in any way inferior to those from the first-half of the '90s; that would be utterly ridiculous.

 

The 'R' prefix was used AFAIK for one year only (2016) and is (to me) inconsequential. Actually the Historic Division reissues crafted in the first two years of production (1993 and 1994) had a 'Historic Division' waterslide at the rear of the peg-head/neck area. Mine (the 131st R9 made) has one. That, too, is (to me) inconsequential.

 

You like the look of the 2001 which is absolutely fine but as you, yourself, say; "...it's just a Gibson Les Paul R8 for £3,700.00..." which, in turn, still means it's a 17 year-old second-hand guitar being priced at £300 more than a brand spanking new - and more accurately made - example.

 

It's no skin off my nose what people charge or are willing to pay for any guitar at all - I really couldn't care less. I just wanted to point out that £3,700 for a used R8 isn't exactly a bargain. It's far from being so.

 

Anyhow, back to the point;

 

This is sweet at around £1,675;

http://guitars.com/inventory/eb6808-1976-gibson-les-paul-deluxe

 

 

 

Pip.

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Not wanting to start a bunfight, LWAG, but taking your points in order;

 

As far as native habitat goes we live about 3 miles apart so I know exactly how much reissues cost hereabouts having played well over a hundred during the last decade. The £300 price hike still stands.

 

Good eras for reissues? Unlike the finest produce from Bordeaux or Burgundy there are no good- nor bad years for reissues. Some individual guitars are 'better-preferred' than others for any one particular player but the year made doesn't come into the matter. In point of fact the more recent ones are considerably closer to the originals in the authenticity stakes which might make these current guitars far more desirable than the earlier attempts.

Some folks say the tops from 1997 are the 'best' ever by which they are alluding to the habit of Gibson using a flame-enhancing technique during this time. All four of my LPs - including an R9 and an R0 - date from between '91 and '95 so it might be thought that I like something about that period but I'd never claim that there was magic pixie dust being used at the start of the '90s nor that all LPs built since '95 are in any way inferior to those from the first-half of the '90s; that would be utterly ridiculous.

 

The 'R' prefix was used AFAIK for one year only (2016) and is (to me) inconsequential. Actually the Historic Division reissues crafted in the first two years of production (1993 and 1994) had a 'Historic Division' waterslide at the rear of the peg-head/neck area. Mine (the 131st R9 made) has one. That, too, is (to me) inconsequential.

 

You like the look of the 2001 which is absolutely fine but as you, yourself, say; "...it's just a Gibson Les Paul R8 for £3,700.00..." which, in turn, still means it's a 17 year-old second-hand guitar being priced at £300 more than a brand spanking new - and more accurately made - example.

 

It's no skin off my nose what people charge or are willing to pay for any guitar at all - I really couldn't care less. I just wanted to point out that £3,700 for a used R8 isn't exactly a bargain. It's far from being so.

 

Anyhow, back to the point;

 

This is sweet at around £1,675;

http://guitars.com/inventory/eb6808-1976-gibson-les-paul-deluxe

 

 

 

Pip.

That's all well and good, but I once paid £4k for one of these (A Gibson Les Paul Reissue) in my native habitat, and even that was on sale/had £500.00 taken off the price.

I saw them here, but hardily anything with a solid body (I told you about that CR9 I tried that day) for under £4, 000.00

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Have a look at this Absolute Cracker (from my favourite Denmark St. dealer) ! ! ! ;

 

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https://www.wunjoguitars.com/product/rocket-3-pickup/

 

Pip.

I have two vintage Harmony acoustics I'm tempted to sell.

 

a 1951 Stella by Harmony H929 Parlor

a 1969 Stella by Harmony H913 12 String (with a pro set up).

 

They Seller's photos in NYC of my H929.

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The LWAG video with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y0a2QLuMAk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJWn3aTHVN8

 

To be honest, I do love it.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4NWE6aM_uM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPOchYwKGXQ

They're great guitars.

 

I had them imported into the country/UK/EU this year from the US from Reverb.com and, wished I'd pulled the trigger on this Guild too that was in Japan; but I didn't and got that 1969 Harmony instead of that 1971 Guild for a quartre of or half the price. IDK.

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https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/scam-alert-funky-junk-guitars-in-nashville-update-owner-now-in-jail.1915225/

WOW...

 

Just two or three weeks before this, he and his GF sent me my 1969 H913

They claimed it was the same model as Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, I knew it wasn't, he had a H912.

I did't care.

 

I feel even more luckier now getting my rare guitar with a pro set up to me in England now. Wow.

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That guitar is on The Big Island pick it up before the lava gets it. Looks like it is remote controlled.

 

Yes it is on the big Island about 20 miles from the lava flow. But out of my out of my price range, I would have to sell my car.

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