4Hayden Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Vince Gill's Guitar Collection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUKovTFQmrE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triad Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 Thank you all for contributing to this post. There are a lot of good ideas and statements made on this While in a local Barnes & Noble bookstore I bought a magazine called Vintage Guitar Magazine and noticed a lot of places buying vintage guitars like Chicago Music Exchange, Retro Fret, Guitar Broker. Since I played Bass for a while my 4001 Rickenbacker Bass in jetglo gets the least play time. While not a vintage at $1.700.00 it took me a while to save for it and with my luck I would drop it or scratch it. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I think what troubles players with an average wallet is the price hype of certain models caused by collectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I see that Chinery book on E Bay, always wondered what it was about. I have that book which goes for high prices now. Not surprising - fantastic photography of a truly unbelievable guitar collection. Scott Chinery (1960-2000) made a huge fortune selling steroids and assembled a fabulous and vast guitar collection including the Van Hoose collection of Gibson Super 400s, over a dozen stunning late D'Acquistos (some to order), and most notably the 'Blue Guitars' - 21 made-to-order acoustic f-hole archtop guitars hand-built by some of the world's best luthiers (Gibson included) and each one finished in blue. He admits in the book that (not surprisingly) he barely ever touched his many vintage Fenders!! He did play and invited various famous guitar players to play some of his Blue Guitar collection. He also collected/bought other stuff but died suddenly in 2000. I expect much of his collection will have been sold off by now; if there ever was a person who actually did have too many guitars it was Scott Chinery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aster1 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I guess you can put flowers into a beautiful vase (that's kinda like playing the guitar) or you can just have the vase sit on display somewhere to enjoy looking at it (like just collecting the guitars). Both are worth having the vase IMHO I like to do both but will admit I have way too many gits to play all the time. Many have to sit & wait to come out for a tune or two. Aster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I have that book which goes for high prices now. Not surprising - fantastic photography of a truly unbelievable guitar collection. Scott Chinery (1960-2000) made a huge fortune selling steroids and assembled a fabulous and vast guitar collection including the Van Hoose collection of Gibson Super 400s, over a dozen stunning late D'Acquistos (some to order), and most notably the 'Blue Guitars' - 21 made-to-order acoustic f-hole archtop guitars hand-built by some of the world's best luthiers (Gibson included) and each one finished in blue. He admits in the book that (not surprisingly) he barely ever touched his many vintage Fenders!! He did play and invited various famous guitar players to play some of his Blue Guitar collection. He also collected/bought other stuff but died suddenly in 2000. I expect much of his collection will have been sold off by now; if there ever was a person who actually did have too many guitars it was Scott Chinery! Dangerous Curves had the Blue guitars. It was in Boston. Couple other guys here were lucky to see it too. It was a great show. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StRanger7032 Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-NgeXl-PPA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorod Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Where is milod...???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Where is milod...???? Well, lately it doesn't really seem that there have been too many topics he would find interesting enough to post in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Vince Gill's Guitar Collection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUKovTFQmrE Wow now that's a nice collection…! Seems to be a great guy as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fretplay Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I have that book which goes for high prices now. Not surprising - fantastic photography of a truly unbelievable guitar collection. Scott Chinery (1960-2000) made a huge fortune selling steroids and assembled a fabulous and vast guitar collection including the Van Hoose collection of Gibson Super 400s, over a dozen stunning late D'Acquistos (some to order), and most notably the 'Blue Guitars' - 21 made-to-order acoustic f-hole archtop guitars hand-built by some of the world's best luthiers (Gibson included) and each one finished in blue. He admits in the book that (not surprisingly) he barely ever touched his many vintage Fenders!! He did play and invited various famous guitar players to play some of his Blue Guitar collection. He also collected/bought other stuff but died suddenly in 2000. I expect much of his collection will have been sold off by now; if there ever was a person who actually did have too many guitars it was Scott Chinery! Thanks for the info Jdgm. I always wondered what it was about. I saw one on UK E Bay asking £500. but it didn't sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinch Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 i play all mine regularly. It's not like I have fifty of them, though... I would buy more if I had the bucks, but I even if I was rich, I doubt I'd buy a "collection", if even a single one of them wouldn't get played on a regular basis. It kind of ties in with how I feel about "musicians" smashing guitars on stage - instruments, in my opinion, are supposed to be played and enjoyed - and hopefully used to make good music. Not be put away for ages, put up on a wall, smashed to bits on stage, set on fire etc. Because for every guitar that has that done to it, there's a kid out there somewhere who couldn't afford (pergaps never will be able) to buy that very same guitar, be it a knock-off Strat copy or a 4k guitar. To me, that's sacrilege on a grand level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorod Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I usually have 10-12....not that they all get played all the time, but they are available and enjoyed when I am ready for them. I don,t think its a sin to 'collect' them. My money....my guitars....feck off! There are plenty of them out there..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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