Man Buys 1952 Les Paul for $200
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Some guys have all the luck!
Vintage guitars are just getting more and more expensive, but sometimes you can find a deal. A Redditor found a 1952 Gibson LesPaul gold top for $200!
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Guy is hiding a $40k purchase from his wife under the guise that he found it at a yard sale.
Good point. Ive done that
Or he's hyping it before it becomes available for sale.
Anyone could say this, and have an instant career on social media.
yes 🙌🏼
😂😂😂
The Jack plate having “fair condition” with 3 of the screw holes obliterated is hilarious
Welcome to the Gibson market baby. Awwwww yeahhhhhhhhh...
@@elnyoutube123 and even the one remaining hole has a crack through to the edge.
REAL guitar players know that the tone comes from the plastic jackplate
As a Gibson; "Does it play well?" no "it's real"
If you don't think Gibson's play well, you've obviously never played one.
@@castleanthrax1833yeah somebody can’t afford one alright 😁
@@castleanthrax1833 The 52' Les Pauls were very mediocre players. Mint condition specimens can get you an honest twenty grand.
There's plenty of Gibsons that don't play well. I have owned one such gibson.
There are also gibsons that do play well... I do own one such gibson
@TheTBass It must suck to be poor.
I accidentally bought a '56 in February for £2800. Not quite $200 but still a crazy deal/story! I sold it last month for considerably more. I had no idea it was what it was until I had I home and started taking it apart.
Short of unintentionally bidding at an auction, how do you "accidentally" buy something?
@@castleanthrax1833 I assume nobody involved knew it was a real '56 until after the fact
@@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R
You're missing my point. When you buy something that isn't quite what you thought it was, that's not "accidentally" buying something.
@@castleanthrax1833 probably meant "blind purchase".
@@castleanthrax1833he accidentally bought a '56. He didn't mean to buy a '56, but he did. That's what 'accidentally' means
Pictures look real. The story...that's another one.
Yeah I don’t believe it because anyone would look online and see that any Gibson is normally above 1000 at least
a decent fake does look real, that's the whole point
Yeah, I don't feel like anyone would go running out and talk about this on the internet if it really happened. It just runs the risk get people coming out of the woodwork claiming the sale was bad and/or they were the rightful owner. They would lose but it would tie you up for a while and end up costing you legal fees. The correct move would be to just discretely contact an expert for verification and then find someone to broker the sale if you wanted to cash out. That said, depending on the size of the estate and situation with heirs, I would probably have too much guilt if I actually bought this for $200.
Not uncommon to find crazy good deals at estate sales. People want stuff gone and fast, they don't have time to wait for the right buyer or to have items valued - they are moving fast. Don't underestimate the average person's negligance to not spend the time first identifying what they have but then checking what it is online, and then checking if it's legitimate or not. The average person probably couldn't tell you what a Gibson is, it's like people who aren't parents knowing what brand of baby stroller is expensive.
@@ipullstuffapart their family would know, he'd (I assume a he) would've gone on about incessantly
I watched The Guitologist YT channel have massive trouble trying to trade a modern 2020 Gibson Les Paul Standard for something at a Guitar Show, nobody wanted it because they don't sell on the second hand market! Gibson has reached peak saturation!
Guitologist is a joke. In order for gibson standards to be in demand it has to have a unique finish. It can't be another boring sunburst or goldtop
I think guitars in general have reached peak saturation. More companies than ever before, most of them producing new ranges every year. Don’t understand paying top dollar for a new guitar when I can get a really great deal on a decent 2 hand one.
@@zappasmoustache23 Yeah but for a while there everyone wanted brand new prices for used gear!
There was a period in the 80's where pointy guitars were the only thing selling and the SHEER AMOUNT of vintage Les Pauls in bargain buckets (or even in the back of guitar stores) was sickening. I'm still having flashbacks at all the PAF Gibby's I turned my nose up to.
And the price may go down again once wealthy boomers will die while vintage Ibanez prices will sky rocket
I remember back then PAF Gibsons were late 50’s to early 60’s. They weren’t cheap. The 70’s Les Pauls however… $350-$400 for any of them.
@@drippinglass Now you pay near this for some Seymour Duncan "Antiquity" replicas: a few months ago, these were listed at €588 the set of two on Thomann's
Then Slash brung them back haha
kdh is looking more like jeb from minecraft every day
@@CaptainCraigKWMRZ Good for you, shitting on young people for being born in the wrong time period to buy a home. If you moved out before 2020, you can't talk. You lived COMPLETELY different economic circumstances. So go ahead and feel good about yourself for merely getting lucky you POS
A buddy of mine bids on shipping containers as a hobby. I constantly remind him to look for guitars hiding in them.
A mate of mine does this, mostly looking for old motorbikes to add to his excessively large collection of projects he’s never fixed!
How does one even get into this as a hobby? This is fascinating to me
@@ObeseChess I can ask him if you'd like. He is just a nerd.
I bought a vintage Gretsch drum set for $500 from a guy who bids on storage units. I've had it for over 20 years and selling it tomorrow for a nice profit. :)
A friend of mine bought a '54 p bass for $15 dollars from a yard sale.
oh my god...
It was in rough shape but original. Most of the paint was gone, hadn't been played in decades.
@@cigarettesmokingman9471 for 15 dollars, who cares... it's original 50s Fender ffs. Im sure you and your friend are from USA. No way someone can stumble upon a vintage Gibson/Fender here in Europe, without the owner not knowing what he has. Probably 85% of all vintage Fenders/Gibsons never left the continent.
@@Angel-fz8dr Probably more than 85%, but you guys got more classic marshalls.
I own an unlabeled Performance Guitars of Hollywood P bass from the 80s that no one else on L.A. Craigslist seemed interested in...nor on Talkbass.
Got it for $50 as a neck and body. Added an EMG GZR, Badass II & Gotohs for around $350 all in. Dumpster dived the case from the Santa Monica GC.
Kenny from Performance confirmed its lineage (in other words, he made it), so, not too bad. The "cool story bro" origin just means I'll never sell it.
Nowhere near this league but about 15 years back i bought an esp max cavalera in cash converters for £250. I was pleased enough with that
I Got a US Fender for £130, an SG special for £250 and a Mesa Boogie head for £150 from cash converters about 15 years ago. They never used to use the internet to check the prices back then
Very true. I think it's had recent been launched too so if they did check I think they checked the Ltd price and balance that with the love of or hate it shape of max's signature back then, they couldn't move it. Shame those day's have gone. Hard to find a bargain now. I've nabbed a few cheap Japanese and korean squires recently and a nice sub two hundred quid Japanese charges tele but no super deals.
I got a PRS Angelus for £100, from a pawn shop on eBay. Someone had taken too much off the bridge then gotten the two way truss rod wrong. 2 hours of setup and it is perfect.
I once bought a 6 box of eggs
3 had double yolks 🍄
We’re the yolks funny 🤣🍺
@@paullee5449 stop yolking with us…….ok someone had to say it!
very cool!
The only reasons to own a vintage guitar are to sell it for a markup, as a conversation piece, or bragging rights. Otherwise, a guitar is a guitar to me
The exact reason I own a KH-202 with the rare "caution" graphics.
It hangs from a wall and is rarely played.
To me it's a sign of accomplishment, I wanted this guitar and many others I have now 20 years ago, and now I'm in a position where I can have them.
me too
If it's expensive it's vintage, if it's cheap it's just old. People want guitars with worn fretboards, pitted frets and ancient electronics because other people say they're cool. Seriously, I've seen some horrid guitars go for ridiculous prices just because they're the rotten remnants of an old Les Paul.
You don't say captain obvious!
Yeah unless it was perfect i'd personally have a custom shop!
20yrs ago, A friend of a friend in Montreal, (who was into buying old guitars and repairing them to resell them on ebay) bought an old Les Paul from a guy in provincial Quebec for 1000$. It was left over from the seller's dad in really bad shape (the bridge was broken and put back in place by nailing ordinary nails into the body of the guitar). When he showed the pictures with the serial no. to his repairman "expert guy" he recomended that he shouldnt change much, or as little as possible on that guitar, because it's the first ever series of LP's from 1952. One of those guitars (with a broken headstock that was glued back) sold for 100k$ on ebay at the time). And this guitar eventually sold on ebay for quarter million $.
There are suckers with big money that are in need to throw it by the windows....
the first series from '62? by then they were SGs
@@frankcarter6427oops, a typo, 52. Ty for pointing that out.
$ 200 I would knocked him down to $ 150 lol
Hahahahaha…nice👍
I do this shit too 😂 Guy was selling an 84 Kramer for 200 bucks. Talked him down to 75 and a case.
you guys are savages. I would give the seller a bit extra, probably
@@Angel-fz8drI agree on this one, I'd do it too. F***ing someone over peanuts just for the sake of it (and bragging about it) seems a bit petty.
Heard Dusty Hill from ZZ Top tell a story like that. Him and Billy Gibbons were in a pawn shop that had a 53 Fender P Bass and the shop had no idea what they had. Dusty let Billy negotiate the price and Gibbons got the shop down to $70. Hill was hurrying up to pay so they could get out of there before something went wrong and Gibbons stops him at the cash register and tells the shop they had to throw in the case to close the deal. He got the case, and that bass was apparently his favorite for the rest of his career.
Ahhh the good old days before the internet, these things were quite common.
I’m actually happy for this guy, I hope he plays it and enjoys it everyday.
My next door neighbor has an original 1967 Telecaster , they bought it new .
She offered to sell it to me when her hubby died , but wanted top dollar and I'm definitely not a Tele guy ...
They had an original Delorean too , Went for crazy money . Smart investments , but risky all the same .
You should’ve bought the Delorean man. You could have any vintage axe you want 😂
@@TylerJohnstonGuitar It only did 87 MPH on the test drive 😂
@@PhilipCockram Smart man. That 88 is essential 😂
If he bought the tele new, it wasn't an investment.
@@TylerJohnstonGuitar Yah it had a bad flux core capacitor . LOL
I don't think I even would ask people's opinion on if it was real. For 200.00 I'd just take the chance, but then again I probably would've thought it's a scam and ignored it. What a lucky dude
He's just bragging. He's not genuinely asking peoples opinions.
Tuner buttons look too good. Those things typically shrink and fall apart.
Saw this post in real time, it was really refreshing seeing people commenting this was actually the real deal, like people had finally found the holy graail instead of all the Chibsons and cheap copies that usually flood that subreddit. OP was so lucky on this one, great finding!
You know what I miss? Audio Audit videos lol This other stuff is great, but I really yearn for some juicy music world drama
The only thing that sucks about the 52s is that you can't palm mute. Hopefully the new owner knows about the no-drilling needed, conversion tailpiece for those things. It is that..or get a neck reset so that you can wrap the strings over the tailpiece.
What an unexpectedly wholesome thing to see on my notifications! Makes me wanna play one of the many guitars I haven't played in ages.... in fact, I think I'm gonna go do that! Thanks KDH! :D
I saw this on reddit the other day and again today he posted a video of playing it. The pictures looked real and I have been looking at Chibsons with an eye toward buying a Gibson. I showed that post to my wife I was so excited, that never happens to me lol The finish was just gorgeous, the checking was so nice. Im sure you are saying the same but I can't watch this until later but wanted to comment so I don't forget...ass backwards sorry but I wanted to like and comment.
Wouldn't waste my money on Gibson . Hell the 1980s tokai replicas play and sound better than any Gibson I've played . I sold my heritage series 1981 goldtop but kept the tokai
I think he can get his money back by selling one of the volume knobs, if its real
You're not wrong lol
I think normally 1952 would have green traces in the finish due to copper corrosion.
This gent should check for codes on the pickups and check out the pots for codes as well
Just send it on over to friggin Trogly lol
I would have checked the pots out first, that would be a good indication on what you are dealing with.
It looks like a real '52. The neck angle is incorrect (which was a problem in the first Les Pauls) which is why he had to wrap the string UNDER the tailpiece. Nice find!
fakers know the neck angle was wrong - it's their job
I would say it's most likely a chibson. They're getting REALLY good these days!
Yeah, but at $200 its still a good deal (assuming it plays ok).
That's far from being a chibson
With that good and natural aging?
@@whatisthis__95 You can't tell for sure by looking at it in a video. I didn't say it was a chibson, I said that it most likely is. The only way to know for sure is to take it apart and have it examined by someone who knows what to look for. But some of the chibson these days are getting to Murphy lab quality.
@@frankhughes5702I've never seen a chibson with that tail piece before, I would be shocked if it turned out to be fake.
I just saw the guys post on reddit yesterday. What a lucky find.
What I took from this is that Joe Bonamassa is going to get a super cool ‘61 Strat.
Jim Irsay can and possibly will out money JB.
@@Pat-nl4wk But Joe has already test driven it. And his Spidey senses will have been tingling before Rory’s brother even realised he was ready to sell it.
I got a 1964 Hofner 500/1 “Beatle” bass for $50.00. They are out there
$50 can't buy you love, but it can buy a 1964 Hofner 500/1 😉
This is probably not something that should be on social media. Although it's a fascinating story, the problem is that the "former" owner of the guitar might find out what an error he made and try to get a lawyer to go after it and renege on the deal. Which may or may not work in court but could cause quite a headache for the new owner in any event.
Maybe. But the guy said he bought the guitar for $200 at an estate sale. If the guitar was being sold at an estate sale, that means the previous owner is probably dead and their next of kin or administrator of their estate is liquidating their assets in order to pay off debts. I’ve had to do that twice (once when my mom died and again when my dad died several years later). It sucks. It’s not fun. I just wanted it to be over as soon as possible. The last thing on my mind was hiring lawyers and going after someone for more money for an item that had already been sold. Especially if I would likely never see a penny of it. It would all go toward legal fees and debt collectors.
Edit: The more I think about it, the more sure I am that that’s what happened. If the previous owner had been the one selling it, I think he would have known it was worth more than $200.
I'm pretty sure if you mess up and decide to sell something for way less than it's worth it's basically tough luck. How could you possibly take legal action against the buyer when you set the price?
@@blackthorn5709 I agree. I don’t think one can legally go back on the deal after the sale is done.
I live in PA, USA, and either party has the right to renege on a deal for 3 days. From what I understand, many states are fairly similar on this.
Call Trogly. He can verify if the Estate Sale was NOT A SCAM.
@@CaptainCraigKWMRZ Craig, no one cares.
Trogly infamously is/was sponsored by a scam lmao
@@Thruuuth i think the infamy stems from the fact that trogly later defended the scamer, accusing people of stupidity that they didn't realize its a scam
@@Thruuuthwas* he was trying to get his money off of it once he realized it was a scam
@@hughjanus5518Then why did you post Mr. Anus?
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Okay it looks like it was bottom wrapped when he was playing it. now unless the neck angle was fixed it would not be playable in that condition. most people know about the neck angle issue on those Les Pauls.
My dad found a Univox Hi-Flier in the garbage in the late 90s (so this is after Cobain's death and spiked interest in the instrument)
They typically run somewhere around 900 nowdays.
I bought a 59 Fender Champ at a garage sale $60. It was all original shitty wiring and all. It was in great condition I sold it through a vintage guitar shop fot $3500.
… and this happened to his kidneys…
Set your sights a little differently if you want to get a score. 10 years ago, I had a Peavey T-40 bass in extremely good condition with original case come to my shop as a trade in offer. With a peavey amp, I think I gave a low market value of $300. I hit it before the T-40 and T-60's became "cool again" and now there's way more value there than I started with. Often people want to know that their guitar that they love, but can't play anymore, will go to a good home where it will be respected.... deals are to be had that way.
This, of course, raises the question, “Is it ethical or moral to knowingly pay so little for a very valuable item if the seller doesn’t really know what they have?”
Some widow is selling her husband’s “old guitar”. She says, “He bought that thing new back in the 50s, and he played it for a few months until he hurt his hand at the factory. I always wanted him to get rid of it because it was just taking up space in my clothes closet, but he kept it around even though it was in the way. Now that he’s gone, I knew that was one of the first things that had to go. I TT honk he paid about $300 for it, would you give me $225?”
You know with certainty that this is a very valuable original 195X ______ in perfect condition. Do you have a moral/ethical obligation to let her know that she could find a buyer who would pay six figures for it? Or, can you feel justified in handing over the $225 and making a break for the door?
Personally, not that I am some kind of adjudicator of morality, far from it actually, but I wouldn't be able to buy it with a clear conscience; mostly because I truly believe in karma and I wouldn't want to bring that into my life.
It would be a bit like if someone was walking in front of me and dropped a $100 bill and didn't realize, I could easily pick it up, put it in my pocket, but it really wouldn't be right.
I was lucky enough to snag a lefty Roland G707 (Darlek's handbag) for £230, It's a guitar I had always wanted, but there were only five made so I thought I had no chance, they were all hand made as the tooling was never created for lefties, and they have Brazilian rosewood boards.
The last lefty burst went for $600,000, about 10yrs ago I was offered a lefty bust (known as the stoop) for £80k...... I thought it was a ridiculous price.... lol...sheesh
IM PISSED!!!! How the hell could Rory's brother put this up for auction. I'll bet Joe Bonomasa buys it. Wtf.
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I agree with you, but the appeal of a few hundred thousand can be luring... especially if you're doing it tough.
it's just an old strat stephen, I've got one - I hope Rory's brother enjoys the money. I saw Rory 3 times in the 70s , no one else was close
$200 Chibsons aren't the problem, $20000 ones are the real problem. Because nobody is getting ripped off at $200 if the thing sounds and plays as well as a Harley Benton but still says "Gibson" on the headstock.
Fr, scamming people is shitty, but realistically a guitar is a guitar, I don’t care about the name on the headstock. The practice is unethical, but so is pretty much every major manufacturer anyway. I ultimately decided that I probably won’t just buy counterfeit outright, but would if it were a replica or something. There was a Yngwie Malmsteen signature Strat in the shop I work at for a repair and restring that I really liked, and my boss pointed out that it was a fake, and that didn’t chance the way it felt in my hands obviously. I’m sure there are a lot of quality control variables, but all the fakes I’ve tried were pretty decent considering, and I’m great at setting stuff up, so I’m willing to experiment
Harley Benton's are junk
@@tylerskott4903 the two I own are nice and the particular model we carry at the shop I work at is probably the best I’ve played at that price point. Maybe yours are junk, but that doesn’t apply to all of them. Learn to do a basic setup
exactly, and any 'vintage' guitar should be assumed to be fake unless there is a huge body of evidence to prove it's real - where there's mugs with money, there's fakes.
I can’t wait for the next ibanez restoration video!
Just waiting on some parts
Yeah when I saw this Reddit post a couple days ago, I was instantly jealous.
Sorry to be that guy, but that's envy. 👌
Soo, he basically found 20-30k in cash on the ground at some garage sale. Good for him. But kinda not even that lucky. Now he just has to decide if he wants to hold or sell. ;-)
Even if it was a Chibson it would still be an awesome deal.
Rory Gallagher’s Strat is going to be auctioned off? The Edge is a fan of Rory Gallagher so I wonder if he’ll bid on it.
I hope Joe gets it, Edge sucks,
As they say: "If something seems to good to be true, it probably is". My guess is that it was built by a skillful forger. One would have to take it apart to tell if it is genuine.
Only vintage guitar i have is an 1987 MIK Fender Squire Strat. And i love it !!
So i can imagine what it's like...
I genuinely thought that I had dreamed of reading this post due to how out of this world the story sounded.
The family should probably sue the person/company who put on the estate sale. The fact that they didn't get a proper appraisal for the guitar is gross incompetence. I wonder what else they lost money on? Jewelry? Antique furniture? Firearms?
The guy that bought the guitar actually broke the law by paying $200 for a guitar worth $20-30k. He knew what it was and took advantage of the seller. It’s not out of kindness when high end collectors pay fair prices to people that don’t know what they have.
The Bonamassa “Bin Liner” Flying V is a perfect example. The lady wanted $1000. Joe paid ~250k(if I recall correctly).
Don't even act like you would have paid them retail guys
@@matthewf1979a collector or reseller may offer fair market value for a guitar. The average Joe will see it as an amazing deal/come up. And like a lot of others, I would’ve offered $150 first.😂
@@matthewf1979 What law did he break?
@@matthewf1979 I really don't think he did. Morally dubious? Maybe. Illegal? I don't see how it possibly could be. Guys like Joe Bonamassa can afford to pay the "correct" price to feel better about it. Not gonna lie, if I had the opportunity to acquire an amazing vintage instrument for a few hundred there's no way I wouldn't take it. No way I'd ever be able to afford it otherwise.
"won't be able to own a vintage guitar..." What are you even talking about? There's all kinds of vintage Japanese guitars, 70s, 80s fenders, etc that are cheaper than modern american guitars!
…obviously it’s implying famous 50s/60s Gibson/Fender guitars lol
Shut up they don’t need to know about that, the last thing we want is all of these muh vintage gear dipshits completely ruining the used mij market
@@lovesgibsonwhy argue with an idiot?
@@lovesgibson Exactly. I've got a '64 Harmony H-19, that was made in Chicago. Great guitar, nice fat neck, Dearmond pickups, Hagstrom bridge and vibrato that holds tune really well. I could never afford a Fender or Gibson from the same year, though!
Funny thing is that 1990s is now considered vintage. I have a 90s washburn so therefore I have a vintage guitar.
These things never happen to me. 😅
I am a Vox AC30 lover. True story, I know a guy, a friend of mine, who works as a repairman for vintage gear like tube amps, organs, the earliest synthesisers, mixing consoles and so forth. He told me the story of a guitarist, who worked as a nurse, taking care of (mostly) old people at there own homes. He helped out a couple and they were chatting about their lives and stuff and he told the old couple that he plays guitar in a band. The old man replied that he used to play in a band for a short period of time in the early or mid sixties. Then they talked about gear. The nurse told the old man he likes the Vox sound (side note: I wasn’t there, so naturally I don’t know exactly how this conversation went precisely). The old man then replied that he still had his and he hadn’t played it since the late sixties (this was approximately 5 years ago) and he went on saying he could have it if he wanted. Turned out the amp was in the room all along. It was hidden under a table cloth and a vase with flowers was standing on top of it! When they removed the vase and the table cloth he saw a fully original early sixties Vox AC30, looking as if it was brand new!!!
The nurse insisted on paying for it. And the old man said something like “if you really want to pay for it then buy my wife some fresh flowers. It’s yours!”
When he had the amp he brought it to a repair man. I think the only thing that needed to be changed were some elcos (or something like that - I don’t know anything about these things). Needless to say the nurse was a happy man.
I used to dream about findings like that. Never happened. 😊
Electrolytic capacitors!
@@mohamedtlass3842 : Indeed! 😊
These things happen, in 2010 I found a NOS Telefunken VF14 'steel' tube (as used in the U47 microphone and V2 rocket) for 1€ - sold it on ebay for 1400€ or so
Best deal I ever got was a Harmony Bobkat for $20 at a garage sale and a Teisco 12 string with sharkfin bosy for another $20 which are now worth $600 to $800 on Fleabay albeit who knows if they get that. Asking is just that.
I am so old that I sold a 1969 gold top Les Paul for 250 bucks in the early 80s. I should not have done that, lol.
It is my dream to find a vintage guitar. I got a early Silvertone 1446 Chis Issak model at a flea market. It’s an awesome guitar and I know I’m not the only person with this dream. Someday I’ll find that slab board Strat lol.
This is the first time I’ve spotted this sort of story at its source (reddit) before seeing it on UA-cam. Good on the guy. Lucky him.
To be honest, he probably just made up the story and obtained the guitar through more conventional methods. I feel like everyone and their grandmother knows that any instrument that has some age to it is worth at least looking into. It would be more believable if he said he got it for a couple grand.
The prices on Reverb are not the prices most of the stuff finally sells for though.
I learned that recently. I bought a Fender Player II for $599 there. $599 was MSRP - 25% off via the digial coupon. The sold listing has the MSRP 🤦♂️
At a certain price point they are no longer guitars but bricks of gold with strings.
Real gibson but probably not being sold for $200 not a chance. Thats seems like someone messing about
lol I saw this on Reddit and lost my mind - the gold top
This could just be a story for his repro. It would protect him from being charged with scamming someone if he sells it.
I saw this on Reddit and responded to it not long after he posted and it needs to be corroborated in person by a shop with experience with vintage guitars. Unfortunately, modern techniques from all of the "relicers" means most of that can be duplicated or mimicked in one form or another by a skilled luthier.
I bought a 70's champ while doing community service for $20 one time. Nowhere near the same but was cool!
Missed a 54 gold top for 600 in 1976 a guy had who was on my postal carrier route.. and a59 LP beautiful red burst for 600 in 1987... I still cant believe it..
Wearing a star wars shirt with Rey being called one of the chosen ones - oh boy
Dont want to start anything, but there is only one chosen one and that was Anakin
The fact that the original price for Gibson in the 1950s was about $350 which is hilarious considering the actual price today would be about 2,000 dollars today yet thay overcharge
Fully aware that the guitar is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. I reserve the right to hold the opinion that those people are ridiculous. Good on this guy - I would sell it in a heartbeat and but some nice new guitars.
Expensive things are useful for money laundering and tax evasion.
@@Crispy_Music_2024 This is true. I think there is some intrinsic value to something like a vintage guitar that represents an era that people are nostalgic about for various reasons. It exists with many things like cars, watches, etc. - people ascribe value to things like old-world craftsmanship, or "golden era" timeframes. Those people tend to be older, have a little coin in their pocket and are willing to pay to capture that nostalgia in the guitar-shaped or car-shaped container. Look - I have some of that in me with regard to Fender guitars because I respect the hell out of Leo Fender and what he did. But I don't think a guitar made in 1962 or in the 1950s has as much intrinsic value as people ascribe to them. But they just keep going up in price...so what do I know?
My experience with some of the mere "lower-end vintage" Gibsons like Melody Makers, and LG-0s has been better than regular American made guitars. They just feel like more malleable tools; better than the limited amount of custom-shops I've played.
but whatever
@DanielBobke - I completely understand the impact of nostalgia. I bought a Fender Player Lead II just because it has that wonderfully-awful single coil sound that I remember from my childhood.
Some time back, there was a guy in Texas who needed money for cancer surgery for his wife. It had an old guitar from his family that he decided to sell. Put it on e-bay for around $1,000, iirc. Turns out the buyers on e-bay knew what he had and it was bid up to $74,000. Prewar Martin.
the 52 is not as popular or desirable as the reverb listing would leave you to believe, but if this guy really wanted to resell, hes only in it for $200, he could probobly get someone to bite at $20k and would still make more money than the guys who are listing for $40-45k, because those guys are probably in well over $20k and im pretty sure thats what those guitars are actually selling for. his is in such great condition, he could list it for $35k as is. or like you said he can hold onto it and get the correct truss rod cover and case, and in 10-15 years he might get even more.
😱😱😱 That’s wild!! Where does this guy live?! This would make for a fun interview and examination with a vintage expert.
I got a brand new 1956 Epiphone les Paul for 200 with a hardcase, cables, and picks from my local antique store
I found my MIJ Jackson Dinky baritone for 300euros when the list price on reverb was fivefold. I actually asked the seller "are you sure" before finishing the transaction.
...and he said ? What is your point?
That is so cool! Absolute madness. :D 🤘
These and other models are surely out there. Stored away in large walk in attics and forgotten until the owner dies and there's an estate sale.
Meanwhile my local pawn shop knowingly listing a fake Ibanez Jem for $1200...
If he did get it for $200, and it turns out to be real, that kinda sucks tbh. There’s nothing cool about ripping off someone who didn’t know what they had.
Reddit you say. Must be real then lol.
LOL, I think it’s legit though
@@tangyorange6509 the guitar probably is. but the story? who knows
There’s no way he paid $200. This guy is fooling all of us! 😂
I don't see any green in that goldtop. I thought the gold tops from that era all turn green where the arm wear is. Also, the shape it's in.... It's too good for a 52. I don't know about this one.
I live in a large multi family apartment building and twice a week we take out rubbish down to the communal rubbish area ro be picked up overnight.
Every single time I go there I have a quick look around to aee if i can see the nexk of a guitar sticking out of a bag.
Its never going to happen but as you said. A mam can dream.
and i was happy to buy vintage fernandes the function from 1980 for like 300 euro and schecter omen with sd pick up for 100 euro this guy hit the jackpot if it's real
the guitar in the video is newer... look at the headstock its the wrong shape (pointer than the 50s) also the fretboard isn't as hammered... i know its hard to see but you can see the inlay isn't shrunken and is properly oriented. also no scratch on the arm rest area of the body.
I need to win the lottery soon so I can bid for Rory's Strat. That will do me for being lucky.
I just got my first les paul from an estate sale, not vintage and not this cheap. Still cool
Saw this when it was posted and nearly cried
I’d like to see a closer look at the nut. It looked like a replacement but hard to tell.
I just found a 1966 Olympic White Stratocaster for 1200 usd…..it was even appraised..lol.l.then didn’t take off neck to verify anything and listed it as a Frankinstrat….
I saw ya in Dublin, mate!
Why ask? Buy it and run like a thief. For $200, one can't go wrong even if it was a copy.
WOW…what a great story…you don’t hear these too often 👍
Yeah I saw this on the guitar subreddit and laughed my ass off, at least the guy has a sense of humour
God Bless you for using Dark Theme.
I got lucky and got a 1949 spanish style gretsch hollowbody there's not much info on it. Found a page this guy made with a bunch of old gretsch stuff, no pics of it on the internet exactly of my model. It was a hand me down.
Man, I sense theme since you have gotten a Gibson 😁
Dreams do come true