What are the next guitars to shoot up in value? Featuring a 1981 Gibson Les Paul Custom
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2020
- #lespaulcustom #vintageguitar #jeremytheguitarhunter
One of the most common questions I get asked is, "what guitars will be most valuable next?"
It's a bit like looking into the tea leaves, for sure, but overall, there is one trick I've learned that helps me decide which guitars to look for and which ones will be more valuable.
It's the 30-year rule. What guitars were popular 30 years ago, and what kind of music was popular, because those are going to shoot up in value shortly.
Why?
Because 30 years after idolizing those guitars, players are returning to their hobby with more disposable income than ever before.
What's your take on this? Have you found this to be true? What are the guitars that don't play well with this rule?
Best video production/editing yet! My first new guitar was a 1997 Epiphone Les Paul Custom.
I used to the exact same thing in school Jeremy. Scroll through pages and pages of Les Paul customs dreaming of owning one someday! Great vid 🤟🏼
80s Les Pauls are great. I have 2, a 1980 black beauty and a 1987 white custom. They play great, sound great and they're solid!
I want a white one so badly!
@@JeremySheppard they're killer! It's weird, the white ones have an orra lol
Great tips!
I love your Gibson! Great sound and great guitar!
Haha, you hit the nail right on the head, I'm that 51 year old!
And yep I'm back into guitar after a 25 year rest. Bought myself a 50's Baja for my 50th, bought a Strat and just built a relic'd guitar. Still have my 93 Epiphone LP which I got after trading my Squier Strat for (still regret that trade).
Anyway, great channel, looking forward to watching more of your videos 👍👍👍
I have an 81Les Paul Custom Black Beauty and I love the Sound it has.
Nice. This guitar looks a bit like the ‘74 Custom that Robert Baker just got!
nice find , i have an 85 , mine eventually developed a collapsed bridge ,,from some of your video shots it looks like yours is as well at 1:46 ,,, its very common with these era bridges and not a big deal to replace ..
if you notice its hard to get the action right ,,, maybe look into that,,,, thanks for the vid ,well done
Thankfully, I kept my '81 Gold Top Standard after all these years.. I think I paid around $300 back then used, but it plays and sounds incredible. Never thought it would increase in value the way it has...
Jeremy I need this les paul!
I can make that happen. It's for sale in my store. reverb.com/shop/jeremytheguitarhunter
I have seen my mij strats double in value in the last few years. I'm with you late 80's early 90's are where the market is at .
I’ve got a 1984 Les Paul studio that I bought in 1993 it’s the alpine white color, it had turned to yellow by the time I got it then, and the clear finish on has these cracks in it, I’ve still got the guitar, it sounds great
I have three customs, 81 black beauty two pickup, 82 heritage cherry sunburst and an 87 Alpine white that’s basically yellow now. The two early 80’s models are the best I’ve ever come across.
I’ve got a 1984 studio Les Paul that was alpine white and it’s yellow now, I bought it in 1993 and it was already yellow then, I’ve still got it
Awesome! In my opinion Les Paul Standards and Customs from the early 90s are next in line to shoot up
It's a beautiful guitar. I love them. You should have cleaned it up before you put the strings on. Thanks for sharing.
I've played a few great Fender Strats from the 70s, the 3 bolt neck ones. I feel like theres a lot of underrated guitars from the 70s still. All they need is a fret job.
Ha! I was just looking at my 74 Strat and am thinking about a fret job. :)
I love my 95 Gibson Les Paul Standard
1993 studio ;-) ebony frets and gold hardware,,still amazing action,--i try to buy deluxe types,for a good price,,then when if ever we sell, the buyer picks this one
I love 90’s USA-made Peavey Wolfgangs. I personally think they are underrated.
Any thoughts?
They are great. They've shot up over the last few years with the shreddy market. I sold one maybe a year ago, 1993 Purple Wolfgang.
I no u just add 30 but I am pretty bad at math guys, lol that was so hilarious cause u said it with so much conviction like u really meant it. lol
I know a lot of older Gibson’s has 300k pots and even 150k in the tone sometimes, it sounds really dark, I wonder if that one does (not a bad thing), I’ve just never heard one this dark before
Oh man. I’ve got a ’95 Martin D1R, and I wear New Balance 574s. I always knew that I was a cliche. I just thought that it would be a cooler one.
Tim Shaw Pickups! FTW ... If you own a 1980 or a 1987 Les Paul Custom, you can be very unlucky to have missed them! And, people usually really dont know how to identify them properly! I own a 1983 (Shaw PUs) and a 1976 LP Custom (original very rare Gibson Williamsburg PUs in it).
On the topic of Martins I have noticed a steady incline in the price of J15's not sure how they fit in with your 30 year rule though.
Martin J15's? Or Gibson? Martin's are pretty rare and all of the 15's are going up in value too.
@@JeremySheppard Martin J15. I bought one back in 2003 so keep an eye on their value. Everytime I see one come up in good shape it sells for a little more than the last one.
Those are pretty rare, I'd expect. They can't make very many of them.
The reason Paul Kossoff of Free got such great tone was because he never used any effects.it was just him,the guitar,the amp and his killer vibrato technique.Kossoff used the amps power tube natural distortion
What's the first song you played in the video. I know that song i just can't spot what it is
Darkest Hour ! I just remember that band
Eclipse by darkest hour!
really wondering what the value of this guitar is?
In 1989 i played a bc rich iron bird. 30+ years later i feel no nostalgia for that thing!
Why demo any guitar with distortion? How can you hear the tone of the pickups?
The aim of the video wasn't demo but to talk about the 30 year rule
Japan made guitars are crazy good. Always hold value.
It's a very recent thing that they are valuable. Most Japanese guitars lose value.
I own the twin to this one.. but in a chainsaw case !
I find this shirt to be a necessity. Take my money. Lol
Let's make it happen. reverb.com/shop/jeremytheguitarhunter
Man, i miss my 83 silverburst. I sold it and made a good profit out of it but a month later Adam Jones signature came out to the market and the prices went insanely up. Anyway, got an amazing deal on an 81 red wine custom with stainless steel frets and it is by far the best sounding and playing Les Paul i own. Im happy with what i have but my hunt for another silverburst will forever continue on.
I've played 80s and 90s Les Pauls. The 90s sounded way better more open sounding and better sustain I'm not sure it's whether the wood, pickups. Try early 90s gibson les paul classic and you'll know what I'm talking about.
The 30 Year rule will be far less valuable as time goes on because Guitar music became far less popular from the mid-to-late 90's. Sadly, that meant a decline/reduced visibility of 'Guitar Heroes' and Guitar based bands.
Jeremy how do I DM you man? Let me know IG? I don’t know
@jeremytheguitarhunter on IG
70s and early les pauls are fine if they didn't develop structural problems early (if they did, they'd be fixed by now, anyway). The criticism of them from a building perspective doesn't hold a lot of water as they are pancake (the 70s type) sometimes and the finish work can be sloppy. But the virtue of them was that they used to be expensive. At $3k, they don't make a whole lot of sense unless you just want an older guitar.
the recent explosion in 1980s and 1970s guitar value may not be permanent given that most of the buyers are older men, but who knows -if someone is looking short term, then it probably is fine, but two decades from now, especially if gibson goes out of business and they become orphans, the folks who are driving up the prices now will be too old.
if it's an investment thing, though, which guitars have outperformed actual investing? Nearly none.
S&P 500: $100 in 1980, $11,675 in 2021.
Realistically ,if people want deals, too, low balling people who don't know what they have is how all of the professional dealers work. I've seen it time and again. You can spend $2k worth of your own time finding $200 off of a les paul on reverb, but you're working against all of the lowball dealers who are hitting every single listing as it comes up.
It's going to take a long time but one day I see the Les Paul with the robo tuners from the Les Paul 100 collection rising in value. Other stuff from the 80's and 90's I'm not sure about. Too much stock and no uniqueness.
Haha. I don't think so. They're terrible. There are other attempts from Gibson to make self tuning a thing that didn't take. I think the most recent attempt was the 4th.
If your rule is right then why my jackson kelly std pro made in japan 1995 doesn’t increase in price , its almost 30 years and they r selling for 400 $ although this guitar was very popular bck then in magazines , first friedman model, am not trying to say u r wrong, iam just saying it makes no sense that a made in japan kelly is selling for 400 and a new made in china jackson sells for 1200
Well, I have no problem finding bad guitars and ass guitars. My problem is finding bad-ass guitars.
Lol
doubtful any new Gibsons will ever attain the value of even the Norlin's just nothing special about any of them anymore just being produced in to great of numbers these days , even the customs are only fair and the bursts are a dime a dozen anymore , Murphy Labs are just over priced reissues when u can buy a real deal early 70s custom cheaper or even a late 60s players grade just the facts ,, been buying and selling guitars for over 45 yrs nothing new id even consider buying not even the WAY over price signature reissue models it will take yrs before u will see any profit on a reissue that starts life at $30 $40k ,, early Norlins are the greatest profit margin going right now but even that is disappearing alarmingly fast they've double in price in just the last 2-3 yrs
Mid 90's les pauls studios are going up in value now with the ebony fretboards
yes known as the good wood time as well
I worked at a music shop back in 2009 and brought a 1981 Gibson tobacco burst LP for £400 and sold it for £900. Now I feel an idiot!