Oahu acoustic on eBay sold for $910!

Fred Kinbom · From: Berlin, Germany, via Stockholm, Sweden.

Hi folks,

Did you see the "museum condition" decorated Oahu student guitar that went for $910 on eBay!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7405642626&rd=1&sspa gename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Meanwhile, I got myself a non-museum squareneck for $104.70:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7404603198&rd=1&sspa gename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

[This message was edited by Fred Kinbom on 19 April 2006 at 03:09 AM.]

Michael Lee Allen · From: Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois

REMOVED

Andy Volk · From: Boston, MA

But hey - you can play Paddy Doyle's Boots on it!

Have you heard Ed Gerhard's House of Guitars? Ed took a bunch of pawnshop steels, didn't even change strings in most cases, and made them sound positively magesterial. They aren't making any more Oahu's decorated in that way and in that condition. Time will tell whether it's a pig-in-a-poke.

Check out PDF page 26 .... who thought a beat-up Gibson Les Paul could sell for $120 -140K?
http://www.skinnerinc.com/content/showauction.asp?fam=13&type=latest

Michael Lee Allen · From: Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois

REMOVED

Doug Beaumier · From: Northampton, MA

I wonder how much the Audio sample helps to sell the guitar?.. or helps to drive up the price? It seems like a great idea. It proves that the guitar is playable at least.

These Oahu student guitars are junk IMO, thin tops, inadequate bracing, poor construction; these are the "WalMart guitars" of the 1930's. The ones with floral patterns look nice, but a pig with lipstick is still a pig. Some players like the thin, trashy tone that they produce, especially for blues slide. Now let me tell you how I really feel about them

[This message was edited by Doug Beaumier on 21 April 2006 at 11:41 AM.]

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