S t e v e Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 just got a email from GAK (guitar amp and keyboard) offering the plank for £7699! with only 100 made...i'd rather **** on my own head than pay that sort of money for a plank of wood...come on guys, reality check! http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/85039 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCI Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 It's a collector's item, not a player's guitar. It's worth whatever someone wants to pay for it so that they can stick it in a glass case and look at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Reality... what a concept! :) I don't have that kind of money either, man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCI Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 *drool* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 It's a collector's item' date=' not a player's guitar. It's worth whatever someone wants to pay for it so that they can stick it in a glass case and look at it.[/quote'] good luck to them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duende Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 I think us guitarists are spoiled being able to get such top notch instruments for relatively cheap, compared to other instruments. Fair enough, it sounds like this guitar a bit of a collectors item, but when you think us guitarists (acoustic and electric) can get premium instruments, from about £2000 we are very lucky[cool] £7000 in the violin world is not upper scale like in the guitar world. Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted December 19, 2009 Author Share Posted December 19, 2009 if i payed that sort of cash for a guitar i'd wanna play the nuts off of it! not sit there staring at it , mind you the people who do buy them probably have more money than sence anyway...:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 I think us guitarists are spoiled being able to get such top notch instruments for relatively cheap' date=' compared to other instruments. Fair enough, it sounds like this guitar a bit of a collectors item, but when you think us guitarists (acoustic and electric) can get premium instruments, from about £2000 we are very lucky[cool'] £7000 in he violin world is not upper scale like in the guitar world. Matt Yeah and try to buy a good quality harp or piano for 2000...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thermionik Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 . You could buy a more 'normal' LP, do the wiring and (if you really had to) artificially age it a bit for a lot less than that - I reckon you could get a luthier to do TWO for that price, sell one and still have change left over to buy strings and things, maybe a half-decent amp. Oh, I forgot..... It's a collector's piece. Well..... not in my book. Greeny's LP is arguably 'collectable', since it has history and provenance (the fact that it's a pig to fret is neither here nor there), but a piece out of the factory is not 'collectable' just because they say it is a limited run of 100 and a close imitation of somebody's guitar. Heck, if you shuffled the wording around a bit - you would be describing a fake. Judge an instrument by what it does for you and what you can do with it. Not what the seller tells you. Not the price tag. Not the maker. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duende Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 if i payed that sort of cash for a guitar i'd wanna play the nuts off of it! not sit there staring at it :) ' date=' mind you the people who do buy them probably have more money than sence anyway...:- [/quote'] too right Steve; My pride and joy in my collection is my Tony Johnson Classical guitar, which is valued now at about £5000-£6000. When I first got it, I didn't take it to work (guitar teaching in school) and treated it with kid gloves, until one day I thought; 'Matt, what is the point of having a great instrument, if you are not going to really use it? LOL. I changed from that day onwards... It goes everywhere now, including teaching, my local pub (where I am allowed to practice while I enjoy a drink) and even the in laws. It, or he, as I refer to him, is my friend! Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzy Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 It's a collector's piece. Well..... not in my book. Greeny's LP is arguably 'collectable'' date=' since it has history and provenance (the fact that it's a pig to fret is neither here nor there), but a piece out of the factory is not '[i']collectable[/i]' just because they say it is a limited run of 100 and a close imitation of somebody's guitar. Heck, if you shuffled the wording around a bit - you would be describing a fake. Too true. If the guitar Jimmy Page played at woodstock was up for sale I'd call that a collectable. They make one with the same dents on it and everything...meh, boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thermionik Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 . Why - thankyou mam, I am honoured. Just to add to Matt's comment, here are my favourite guitars in hand at the moment:- [1] Harmony H6365 from '74/'75 with one of the first run of "Bill Lawrence" electric pups (kinda P-90) The guitar is worth diddlysquat, Jzchak 'EZ' Wajcman reckons the pup's at $1,000US these days..... [2] Teisco SS-4L from early in 1964. It's the guitar Houndog Taylor played, with four gold-foil pups Well - the pups fetch about $100US each - but the guitar has so many mods it is worth diddlysquat. [3] Aria Pro II RS Wildcat from 1986 out of Matsumoku with Maxon pups Maybe a couple of hundred bucks on a good day, more if I threw in the strap. [4] Framus 5/53 Capri from 1959 (copy of the 1934 Gibson L-50) Probably couldn't give it away, the action is not good (I use it for slide playing). [5] Epiphone Sheraton II from January 1995 out of Samick Pups are 59's, saddles Graph-Tech and I have fitted a Bigsby B7 made in '60 or '61 The mods are probably worth more than the guitar, and I'd be lucky to get what, $600US, less even. But - and here's the thing - I wouldn't swap ALL or ANY of them for Matt's $10,000US Johnson. Because they work for me - and have done for a long, long time..... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duende Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 I make you right! I too wouldn't swap my Epiphone Sheraton 2 for anything, even my Tony Johnson guitar. It is a fantastic instrument in it's own right. I don't think you did mean this but Just to clarify I wasn't saying that an expensive guitar means it is better, just that it should be used despite it's value. Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thermionik Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 . No amigo Matt - I am with you 100% of the way. Guitars are for playing. It's how the elves inside them express themselves. And whilst I was/am agreeing with you on that point, I was also saying the price tag is not an issue to even consider if you want playability, if you find a really playable guitar for $1 or $100,000, then play the bejasus out of it. That's it's raison d'etre..... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swleary Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 What I was told by a manager at Long & McQuade after Gibson emailed all the stores. Limited numbers and $8000- 9000 CDN. He also said something about stores having some kind of lottery system in order to get one. Not my words so don't shoot the messenger just sayin lol After checking the currency conversion from GBP to CDN , way off. Something like $13 500.00 CDN, wow too much for my blood . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 if i payed that sort of cash for a guitar i'd wanna play the nuts off of it! not sit there staring at it :- ' date=' mind you the people who do buy them probably have more money than sence anyway...:- [/quote'] I agree... for that kind of money I'd play her every day and night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swleary Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Ok guys, I'll be nice :- . You guys all pitch in and buy me the guitar. I'll post vids and stuff. See it's a win win situation lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 /chuckle You know, this is why I won't play an ugly guitar.... Nothing else really matters to me... how does it play? How does it sound? Money, looks, brand, wood, pups... nothing else matters, only what sounds I can coax out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 I think us guitarists are spoiled being able to get such top notch instruments for relatively cheap' date=' compared to other instruments. Fair enough, it sounds like this guitar a bit of a collectors item, but when you think us guitarists (acoustic and electric) can get premium instruments, from about £2000 we are very lucky[cool'] £7000 in the violin world is not upper scale like in the guitar world. Matt Indeed, a friend of mine is a pianist and in talking about instruments he told me: you are lucky, the piano I want is $70,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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