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Yea reverb used to have a better price guide but it's a bit of a mess breaking them up by year with limited data, but most transaction data they have show 500-800, so i'd go with the price guide shot above for sure!

People that ask for 3x the going price are doing so so they can tell their SO they're trying to downsize but dangit still no bites! an LG0 is a corvair, not a corvette. 67 makes it even less desirable because of the narrow nut- truly a student model intended for small hands and to be moved on from in time. Around my parts even in the current hot market, I wouldn't list it for more than $750 if i actually wanted to sell it

it's funny as a cyclist to see a thread like this where weight weenies are posting about how their tuners just feel like they're weighing them DOWN! Good on Martin for creating this idea that the lightest possible guitars are always the best sounding bar none. id say if it sounds amazing, keep that finish thicc and don't impose impossible standards onto your guitars!

I'm starting to think the minimum wage is too low if unemployment pays better than being employed. didn't think i'd find myself siding with RCT so quickly in this thread, but demonizing the labor force as lazy (i imagine the floor workers in bozeman would have something to say reading this thread) really ignores the blatant cashgrabs going on like this one

at least where i live in a major city, the last 90 days have been totally transformative with vaccine rollout and kids all getting back in school in person full time. after working from home since march 2020 ill be heading back into my office this summer. the next 90 days are going to be as transformative and people will start realizing that the at home entertainment party is over and they still haven't learned the Bieber songs on that Gibson and their peloton has become a towel rack. there's a pinch on cars creating an insane market but that will alleviate as well, and containers will start leaving ports again. 6-12 months everything is normal again and people start wondering why they bought everything at the top of the market. Quarantine-brain is real!

I'm happy everyone's keeping themselves entertained creating dark money narratives instead of grumbling on why you can't get a J45 with that stimmy money

You're making a lot of assumptions while at the same time saying you're not editorializing, made worse by using the term retarded in an unnecessarily offensive way. ProPublica allows you to search every PPP loan recipient and neither Gibson nor any of their brands appear to have taken anything. The supply issues all industries are seeing in terms of production and distribution are a much larger factor than fat cats sitting back in their chairs counting the money. There's a local bike manufacturer near me that as a wall of bike frames ready to be sent out- but they can't get packing material. doesn't have anything remotely to do with their willingness to work

I feel like they're very Martiny, and took out some of the quirks and gibson thump, even in comparison with the martin bronze

I bought a set of martins around the time of this post and just got around to putting them on - Jinder how did you find them after they broke in? I've rocked martin bronze/phosphor bronze for damn near a decade on my j45 and these sound plenty different- not sure if it's just fresh strings or what, but im still getting used to it a bit

diskotekno's advice is the way to go then- at the very least have fun with it

I can't really think of a way you could relic that to have it look natural- the location of those circles isn't really a place where there's playwear. it's a poly finish so the stickers removed some of the coating vs uv light mellowing the color of it. I'm not expert and others can weigh in, but maybe wet sand the whole top with some high grit sandpaper, then work your way up to a shine from there? The idea being to have the depth of finish more uniformly match the circle areas? I definitely didn't notice anything when i first saw the picture- it's a great guitar and you got a screaming deal on it, I'd say let time do it's thing and dont sweat it too much

Great info, thanks Red. Reminds me of this satirical article's headline Capitalism-Loving Dad Doesn’t Get Why Things Aren’t Built to Last Anymore Jeans happen to be my litmus test for folks that get upset about outsourcing and quality issues and prioritize MIUSA stuff... myself included. If you're unwilling to spend $300 on one pair of jeans made in the USA of USA materials, you need to admit you're part of this problem. it's a tough pill to swallow for sure, especially when you realize the environmental impact of production of jeans that are just plain UGLY.

I didn't watch the whole demo but my understanding is that the unique sig element of this apart from cosmetics is that it has a neck modeled after a 335 rather than your standard acoustic neck, supposedly making it a little faster? it's a cool idea since as noted in that other j200 thread they are really suited to rock/strummer environments. I think these are limited enough quantities that it will scratch the itch for some of those rock and roller types that want a fast acoustic, but will probably dip into the depths of obscurity for wider gibson folks

Years later this fight rages on- i agree with the post above that with epiphone, there are dogs and gems depending on each individual guitar. that said, having owned a few 90s epiphones and a few more recent ones, the MIC ones feel a little more dipped in poly than the MIKs or Indonesians. There's a very real thickness and in some cases a tackiness to them that really breaks from what people like. Total personal opinion, ymmv. i for one also try to avoid buying MIC products generally, and i think a lot of the quality questions can also have that charge to them as well.

I had a '65 Caballero for a bit, traded it for an AC15 that i later sold i think to fund my j45- and the wheel keeps spinning! I then bought the reissue caballero and while it didn't have the broken in sound, playability was miles away better than the narrowest nut i've ever played. nostalgia can be a tricky thing and you may realize your teenage hands have turned into mitts- tricky on some of those late-60s gibsons. good entry into the vintage world in my experience, but there's a reason they're sometimes priced a lot lower than ones from the early 60s

HEREs a luthier rundown of a similar one from 1914. In the realm of all guitars out there, i'd say collectibility on this is pretty low- more of an historical artifact than a player, so probably better kept in the family to learn a couple of ragtime songs in honor of great-grandma or something like that than trying to cash in on it.

It'll be interesting to see whether the NG causes the standard models to ratchet up in price from now on just because they're an alternative

I dont think i knew the dove was 25.5! good info.

Dove, Hummingbird, and those others are all short scale. if you want a long-scale maple body gibson, the frontier fits the bill! It's also beautiful and a really unique look as opposed to a ho-hummingbird. To pohatu's point at this level i dont think anyone's confused by the epiphone headstock.

Noel's story is that his is just an off-the-rack J-150 from the 00s bought on a whim in London- i don't think there will be anything structurally different as he doesn't mess with his guitars. just the signed label, the adidas sticker, and the exclusivity

considering the 00s j-150 it's based on trades for 2-3K according to reverb, that seems like a LOT for the noel signature (real or printed) and an adidas sticker

There was an elite that was made in Japan in the 00s. what you have is likely an ej200 artist

I want to start a business where i charge folks $100 to put the first scratch into their expensive object so they don' have to feel that pain of doing it themselves. I'd say with 20% off and plans to make it your own, it'll break in and you won't think too much about it. or just get a snark of your own and put it over it- boom it's gone!

why would you buy a guitar you need to transform to suit your preferences? If you swap everything out you're washing out vintage value even if you think at the time it's a universally-perceived positive upgrade by messing with the originality. I'd say move on and maybe get a waterloo that is constructed more to your tastes and has similar aesthetics?

Looks legit to me- any hummingbird copy i've ever seen was cherry burst and not that 2010's orangeish burst (which i LOVE)