Does making guitars collectors items ruin it for everyone else?

[damian]

For once, and probably only this time, I disagree with Pippy....

 

The early Gibby LPs were made with old growth Mahogany......By the time they started making Les Pauls again, all that

 

wood was gone.........Heck, I can tell that my Epi guitars sound better after aging even a few years...I have a 1972

 

Epi electric that just sings......Stradivarious used wood from the mini European Ice Age; the wood had tight growth rings...

 

That's one of the key things that make his violins great..........Old wood with tight growing rings from long winters.....