Old is very rarely good. Ask any old person. Only young guitar players who don't know any better want old technology guitars. Bloody things are a pain in the shorts and don't work worth a tinker's damn.
I seem to be the only person who's even noticed that people like George Gruhn, Dave Rogers and John Brown write monthly columns for Guitar Player, Vintage Guitar, Premier Guitar... Their profession? SELLING OLD GUITARS. Gee, I wonder if they care if the prices... I wonder if they use their column space to pim... nah, that's too paranoid. :icon_tongue:
There are quite a large number of people who's livelihood is tied directly or indirectly to KEEPING THE PRICES UP ON OLD GUITARS. The painfully obvious design problems with so many older guitars get steamrolled in the wave of adulation reserved for
anything old. It's not just the six-point whammy that come back to haunt us, it's the Mustang reissues where NOTHING is changed or fixed, and Gibson re-introducing the dumbass "vibrola" on the reissue SG's... it's,,, awwww there I go again.One things is damn sure true, and that is that
nobody like DeTemple would be able to sell NEW copy guitars for $6000 DOLLARS if old trashed out '50's Fenders weren't selling for upwards of $25,000. I think it certain that the market which says certain old stompboxes are "worth" thousands of dollars is driven by that fact that an old Les Paul is "worth" $300,000.
Even the cords and straps get into it,
"You wouldn't put a cheap cord into your precious guitar, so buy it a Zoomboobertron cable - for only $250!"
http://www.detempleguitars.com/temp/CATALOG_ITEMS/DeTemple_52.php
http://www.detempleguitars.com/temp/CATALOG_ITEMS/DeTemple_56.php
boards and wires, kiddo, just boards and wires.
