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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 16:24:29 GMT
Just wondering if folks on east side of the pond, over the years, have found any good, interesting guitar or related stuff at rummage,yard,estate, tag, flea market or whatever household sales? In the USA, specifically in NJ, I have always come up with some very nice unloved instruments pretty cheap. The mass consumption and prosperity of the post WW2 years in the USA was a unique phenomenon that yielded many goods, and people tossed a lot if good stuff that was deemed as old... Some of my best finds were a 1935 Rickenbacher model B Bakelite steel for $90, a Marshall 100 watt head for $100 and a 1959 Fender tweed Deluxe amp for $20... I still go out looking though sometimes you can snatch a good buy on eBay...
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Post by washboardchris on Apr 26, 2015 17:08:44 GMT
I bought a SG shaped Guild(USA made ) for £25 at a boot fair & a Japan made Strat for £35 & a pre war Epiphone arch top in a case for £90 .but not a lot of late
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Apr 26, 2015 17:32:43 GMT
A Rowe Dearmond Tremtrol 60A in its original box with pamphlet instruction sheet and guarantee card. It's almost museum quality.
North Carolina 2007. I was stuck for something to do on a business trip so I looked round the organized yard sale in the motel car park. - I was wicked. I haggled the guy down from U$15 to U$12.50 as it wasn't working.
Filled it up with Windex and it works a treat.
Another, but in the UK this time - A Shaftesbury Duo-Fuzz in superb, original condition, fully operational bought at a northern boot sale for £5.
Before you ask, they are not for sale.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 20:30:48 GMT
No, but at my kids school right now in the music dept is a forgotten lake placid blue strat with rusty strings.
As Lyle Lanley said, its like the mule with a spinning wheel. No-one knows how they got it and danged if they know how to use it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 21:23:26 GMT
No, but at my kids school right now in the music dept is a forgotten lake placid blue strat with rusty strings. As Lyle Lanley said, its like the mule with a spinning wheel. No-one knows how they got it and danged if they know how to use it. TT Could be worth anything from $300 (Mexican made) to $10,000 (Fullerton 1962).... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 21:51:49 GMT
Not a guitar, but I've found a few old analog synths for dirt cheap.
On the flipside, before I moved to Europe in the 1980s, I sold my 1958 Gibson ES-335 for $400... ouch! Well, that was all it was worth back then, but still. Ouch!
These days, most people are smart enough to check the internet before selling anything, so hidden treasures are few and far between.
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Post by gaucho on Apr 27, 2015 1:10:29 GMT
I found a mid 30's Dobro model 45 on Craigslist a few months back. Beautiful shape and the guy wanted $250 for it. By the time I got around to see it he hd dropped the price to $199! I explained to him what he had (I admit that I originally believed it to be some sort of Model 19/25 variant) and told him I'd give hime the original asking price and he snapped it up. Love this thing! On the right:  The '34 Style 0 on the lef,t I found in a usually overpriced guitar shop. It had just come in on trade and was marked $2199. That was at least $1000 too little according to recent sales I could find on the 'net. I traded 3 guitars on it. A month later at the Orlando Vintage Guitar show (one of the biggest in the country) I found one just like it (but not as clean) that was marked $5500! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 2:18:03 GMT
$2199 was a good deal on the style 0... The dobro was a great deal. There are still good deals out there, and probably better deals coming in the future for younger players as the boomers retire from playing.
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