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Larry, my dear friend,what if you knew you could sell it for $8000.00 ?


Get ready, if you won't, someone else will.

"Larry, my dear friend,what if you knew you could sell it for $8000.00?"

I have two questions to add to that:

If you could sell it for $8,000, would you do it?

Why would you do it?

I have some very collectable, very playable Martin guitars that I would never sell, no matter how much they are worth to others.

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Lee, from South Texas
Down On The Rio Grande

<SMALL>what if you knew you could sell it for $8000.00 ? </SMALL>

Nope. I don't buy steel guitars for speculation purposes. I let my stock broker take care of that and, for some reason, she has never suggested investing in steel guitars. It would be just my luck that whoever promised to pay 8K would back out and I'd lose money on the instrument. I hate when that happens.

I buy a steel for one reason: to play it. I've never owned more than three at a time and for 20 years I only had one. Maybe it's just me, but I hate seeing a good instrument sitting in its case for more than a week.

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<small>Larry Bell - email: larry@larrybell.org - gigs - Home Page
2003 Fessenden S/D-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Dobro, Standel and Peavey Amps

Larry, this sounds like me with motor cycles, no matter what I pay for one, I lose money. I'd be better off with Enron stock, or possibly 'Global Crossing" stock.

A new handmade double neck Franklin costs
4 thousand something. Paul Sr. personally handmakes each guitar to assure great quality
and consistency. Considering this compared
to most guitars that are made in factories, franklins
are worth the extra thousand. Paul works extremely hard and has still only built about 300
guitars. He needs to charge a little more. Compared to most other guitars, this is just a little
bit more. -Derek

... which brings me to my next question

A lot of folks are comparing the tone of their new mfd. gutiars to 'having that emmons sound' or having 'that tone' etc. I will admit, with the aluminium trim, and laminate bodies, they do take on the emmons LOOK.
HOWEVER, the all pull changers would in my opinion be more likely to get closer to the ShoBud or MSA tone.

My question is, say someone was in the market for a guitar that they could take on the road, (to leave the collectable shobud or emmons at home where it's safe), and wanted to get closer to the ShoBud tone (we all know ya aint gonna get the emmons tone in an all pull!!). Is GFI on the right track? or is Mullen? Derby? Carter? Nashville LTD? Fessenden? or are all these guys so focused in getting the Emmons tone, that they overlook the ShoBud tone as a good benchmark tone?

As a collector of old toy trains for many years, and as someone who knows alot of collectors and a lot about collecting generally, I can assure that, with full acknowledgement of all the wonderful qualities of a push-pull, it is absolutely NOT a collectible. No where close. An item made 30 years ago, give or take, that sells for 2-3 times what it was originally sold for, that sells for substantially less than similar types of items currently made brand new is NOT a collectible. Will it be in the future? The lack of nice condition, UNRESTORED models is problematic. Also, push-pulls aren't rare. Additionally, the market of pedal steel guitarists as investors is probably too limited. But anything is possible.