How to destroy a $15,000 guitar!

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 20 Dec 2005 6:34 am

Let us not forget the infamous wangcaster.
http://www.carverdoug.com/wang.html
Of course, the strat copy that this was made from was a piece of junk to begin with, so there's no great loss.

I'm kind of surprised that the guy who made this hasn't sold a trillion of them to 13 year old metal heads, punks and hip hoppers.

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 20 Dec 2005 7:33 am

The modifications may have had a negative influence on the selling price of this guitar.....but it probably didn't make it sound any worse.

Drew Howard · Post by **Drew Howard** » 20 Dec 2005 8:34 am

There used to be a pawn shop in town that had mutilated Strats and SG's with their cut-aways hacked off. Needless to say, they hung on the wall for decades.

UGH!

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Tony Palmer · Post by **Tony Palmer** » 20 Dec 2005 11:32 am

I don't know...these situations only serve to highlight the questionable, over inflated value of vintage electric guitars in the first place.
I could always see the value in an old Martin or Gibson acoustic guitar because of the (sometimes)rare, aged wood and workmanship that may no longer be available.
But I've personally never seen the $$$value in an old Tele or Strat.
I just don't get it.

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 20 Dec 2005 7:21 pm

The old Fenders are valuable because they are rare and historic. Not because they are better than today's guitars.

However, it most be pointed out that shortly after C.B.S. bought the company, the quality really did go downhill for a while.

Thankfully that didn't last and Fender now strives for the same or better quality that they had when Leo ran the company.

In 1992, on the evening of the riots that erupted when the cops who beat up Rodney King were acquitted, a club owner in the city of Perris, which is around 70-75 and miles fom L.A. torched her club in an effort to collect the insurance money. All the band's instruments were inside and were all lost in the fire.

The guitar and steel player, a fellow named Kurt Brown, lost a brand new Mullen D-10 and a 1954 strat in the fire. He replaced the strat with a brand new one, and later said that financial and sentemental value notwithstanding, the new one was a better guitar.

Geoff Brown · Post by **Geoff Brown** » 20 Dec 2005 11:32 pm

Anyone remember the Les Paul banjo that was on eBay a year or so ago?
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-6/233929/50sGTbanjo1.jpg

If that was a '57 (which it isn't)...an unfettered one would fetch upwards of 100k today. From what I can tell, this was a pre-'57. Still, one in nice shape would pull in 30k-40k...less for a '52. Monetary value aside...that's just a sickening photo. [This message was edited by Geoff Brown on 20 December 2005 at 11:49 PM.]

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 21 Dec 2005 4:04 am

Ye gads!

Bob Carlucci · Post by **Bob Carlucci** » 22 Dec 2005 6:32 am

That crime is MORE than evil enough to warrant
death by firing squad
death by lethal injection
death by hanging
death by Phaser
death by butterknife ete etc etc.... I'm weeping..... bob

Post by **Joey Ace** » 22 Dec 2005 1:46 pm

Auction's over. $1448 !

Reserve not met!

Incredable!

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 22 Dec 2005 8:30 pm

hmmm... over 2900 people viewed the auction.

It seems to me that the neck alone is worth quite a bit, assuming it's all original. If someone out there had a '57 tele body, this auction would the chance of a lifetime to get an original '57 neck. If the value of a complete '57 tele is anywhere near what the price book says, the neck alone could be worth a couple thousand dollars to the right buyer. The electronics and other parts are worth a lot too. I think in this case the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. ...or is that greater than the hole?

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Geoff Brown · Post by **Geoff Brown** » 23 Dec 2005 3:32 pm

The decal on the neck doesn't look anything like a '57. Not even close.

If what's left of the guitar is original, it would be easier to just part it out and sell pieces separately. Probably make more $$ that way. He's selling a buggered guitar w/ "original" parts, which is probably going to steer some people away.

Aaron Schiff · Post by **Aaron Schiff** » 26 Dec 2005 2:50 pm

I have a 2000 CIJ Tele with Rio Grande pickups. Is that butchering? I'm planning to have a forearm and belly cut done. Is that butchering? It's going to be done by the best luthier in western Colorado. Is that butchering? It will be hand modified by an expert craftsman certified by Fender and Martin in guitar warranty work, Does that make it ok? My point is that Teles are best known for being able to "take a lickin'" or "deliver a lickin'"(in case of a bar brawl)of any guitar. They are a factory produced instrument with -0- hand craftsmanship. They are not a pre-War Martin or Epiphone or D'Angelico. Who knows, this guitar could be a great player. Teles never were pieces of art and paying $15,000 for one is God's way of telling you that you have too much money.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 26 Dec 2005 3:47 pm

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