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william · Post by **william** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:00 am

i have a cyclone 2 just like that in pieces. maybe i should put it together and sell it.

that was indeed a great deal.

nice collection, geisha.

aphasiac · Post by **aphasiac** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:41 am

mage wrote:do you really think it'll be worth that much though? I mean surely it will go up but even JV Squiers (which are something like 27 years old at this point) still go for less than $1000. also antique markets go up and down. vintage car prices sky rocketed in the 80s and 90s and now have settled to average prices. my dad's 1928 buick that he's fully restored is only worth like 20-something grand. with inflation I think it's worth maybe about twice as much as it cost new 80 years ago.

I concur; as well as inflation you've also got to factor in the cost of storage (space doesn't come for free really does it).

Am I the only person who finds it a bit sad that a father would give his son a guitar and then tell him to keep it in pristine condition under the bed, rather than you know...PLAY IT? The kid needs to be rocking out on that thing!

But anyway welcome, nice collection and I like the tin foil pickguard thing. One question; isn't there a danger that a hard strum and scrape will rip the foil?

Jagermeister · Post by **Jagermeister** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:48 am

Who knows if guitars will even be used in music in the amount of years we assume it would take for that guitar to mature... $200k Les Paul then too might just be worthless and seen only as curios anyway

I suppose most people would suggest "investing" in a real Fender for the future, but really if you want to invest, there's the stock market and currencies, and if they go under we're screwed in the meantime anyway... If you want to play guitars, there's guitars

Then again, I'm sure the price of a new Squier will probably we worth one's son having a memento and curio in a few years with, a low initial cost

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:30 am

Jagermeister wrote:...but really if you want to invest, there's the stock market and currencies, and if they go under we're screwed in the meantime anyway... If you want to play guitars, there's guitars

for real. thank you.

I just can't see how a guitar is a realistic investment. there are just too many factors involved. like jagermeister said, we have no idea about the popularity of guitars will be in 30-50 years. and a CV squier will never be worth as much as a JV squier just like a JV squier will never be worth as much as a pre-CBS fender. and JV squiers aren't even worth that much.

if I were to some reason invest in a guitar; since we are currently in the vintage guitar market bubble and we can't expect it to keep expanding forever, I would buy the guitar expecting to sell it in ten years. another ten years after that and stuff is going to have gone back down.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:54 am

Some American magazine did an article on this a while back.

The gave the price for a '52 tele in 1990, and it's current day price (this was about five years ago, when the vintage guitar market was only a bit crazy compared to what it is now). They also comparead it to a portfolio of shares that I think they had been advised about, and compared the gains across the twelve years or whatever it was.

The tele yielded slightly less return, but was less involving and more fun.

GEISHA · Post by **GEISHA** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:52 pm

eljeffe wrote:Great collection Geisha! Looks like you have the bug worse than me (21 guitars and growing). Most of mine have been project guitars so the cost isn't to bad. I like the one image collage, I'll have to do that. I keep a website for gear http://www.hewittsgarage.com/studio.

Ohhh I like that website alot. Thank you very much.

kim · Post by **kim** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:38 pm

do like

robog has two bassballs

lol