Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 3:23 am
joeybsyc wrote:This can be true....especially for sturdy fender guitars..Mages wrote:I think many guitars, ESPECIALLY these "student models" were bought new for an aspiring young musician who may have quickly lost interest and the guitars end up stashed in a closet or under a bed in nearly new condition, for no fault of the guitar. The trick is to find them, as the thrashed ones seem to severely outnumber the minty ones 40+ years later.[/img][/url]
However, to use an example of the opposite...I have a 1968 Ovation Tornado...it's checked, dinged, scraped, nicked, etc, but the action is super perfect and it is honestly the best playing stable semi hollow guitar I've ever owned (or played). On the other hand, a few years back I bought a near perfect example of a 1967/1968 hagstrom viking II that looked like it hadn't been touched in 30 years. It had one small ding in the top near the f hole, and a few very small cracks around the f hole binding. However, this guitar always slipped out of tune....the neck would shift, frets were dead and the action was way off....I always thought it was a warped neck, but $300 later, I found out the top was separating from the body near the neck joint. It was clamped and set and now it plays awesome and it's my main guitar. But that's what 30 years of sitting around not getting played can do. Just like a car that sits is going to need new seals/gaskets/battery/etc