Yanked from Bluesman and Fen_wolfchile

For the last couple of days my fellow guitar playing LJ amigos bluesman and fen_wolfchile have discussed the thought experiment of getting a guitar from their birth year. So since I'm not one to resist a little insanity I've been just trawling ebay to get an idea of what said instruments from 1976 might go for these days.

For Fender Stratocasters it seems the bidding starts at about $2000 and goes upward, although from the look of the photos its hard to tell if they are just a little road worn or embracing full on Stratocrapper Syndrome. Looking onwards towards the Gibson Les Paul's on offer the prices appear the same, generally, but the instruments at least look a lot better. I'm not sure if that's because the typical Les Paul paint job fades out more nicely than a Strat during that time period, or if they were just better maintained.

Ultimately though, even after looking for specific vintage gear I'm not really hearing its sweet siren call, and I have to confess if I'm going to spend a lot of money on an instrument that I've never played before buying I'll spend it on warmoth.com instead of ebay. I think I'm always going to prefer putting my own scuff marks on an instrument, rather than living with someone else's.

I think it just gives an instrument a more personally meaningful history, you know what I'm saying?

Yanked from Bluesman and Fen_wolfchile

For the last couple of days my fellow guitar playing LJ amigos bluesman and fen_wolfchile have discussed the thought experiment of getting a guitar from their birth year. So since I'm not one to resist a little insanity I've been just trawling ebay to get an idea of what said instruments from 1976 might go for these days.

For Fender Stratocasters it seems the bidding starts at about $2000 and goes upward, although from the look of the photos its hard to tell if they are just a little road worn or embracing full on Stratocrapper Syndrome. Looking onwards towards the Gibson Les Paul's on offer the prices appear the same, generally, but the instruments at least look a lot better. I'm not sure if that's because the typical Les Paul paint job fades out more nicely than a Strat during that time period, or if they were just better maintained.

Ultimately though, even after looking for specific vintage gear I'm not really hearing its sweet siren call, and I have to confess if I'm going to spend a lot of money on an instrument that I've never played before buying I'll spend it on warmoth.com instead of ebay. I think I'm always going to prefer putting my own scuff marks on an instrument, rather than living with someone else's.

I think it just gives an instrument a more personally meaningful history, you know what I'm saying?

Yanked from Bluesman and Fen_wolfchile

For the last couple of days my fellow guitar playing LJ amigos bluesman and fen_wolfchile have discussed the thought experiment of getting a guitar from their birth year. So since I'm not one to resist a little insanity I've been just trawling ebay to get an idea of what said instruments from 1976 might go for these days.

For Fender Stratocasters it seems the bidding starts at about $2000 and goes upward, although from the look of the photos its hard to tell if they are just a little road worn or embracing full on Stratocrapper Syndrome. Looking onwards towards the Gibson Les Paul's on offer the prices appear the same, generally, but the instruments at least look a lot better. I'm not sure if that's because the typical Les Paul paint job fades out more nicely than a Strat during that time period, or if they were just better maintained.

Ultimately though, even after looking for specific vintage gear I'm not really hearing its sweet siren call, and I have to confess if I'm going to spend a lot of money on an instrument that I've never played before buying I'll spend it on warmoth.com instead of ebay. I think I'm always going to prefer putting my own scuff marks on an instrument, rather than living with someone else's.

I think it just gives an instrument a more personally meaningful history, you know what I'm saying?