The Steel Guitar Forum

Saw an LDG advertised on Craigs for $1000...texted the guy & said "I'll take it". Texted me back an hour or 2 later & said it was just sold.
I guess that should've been expected at THAT price!

Rich,aren't those things worth about $2000.00. Some thing sounds fishy. Tenn.Lee

First one who shows up with cash wins.

Unfortunately, many of us have had that same experience. Years back, missed a 1923 Gibson Lloyd Loar mandolin at a yard sale by ten minutes (friend called and informed me that it was there), price $75.00. At that time they were selling in the $15,000 to $20,000 range, today the figure is closer to a quarter million!!

David, those are the ones you kick yourself for the rest of your life over. In hindsight, you wish you had told your friend to buy it and you'd pay him/her back. But sometimes it works the other way, too. Not music related but I once bought at pickup truck in reasonable shape at an auction - for $50!

http://austin.craigslist.org/msd/5345131300.html

Sierra D10 keyless, 999$... Austin CL.

The Sierra keyless is a 25" scale guitar. I'd bet that is a real party to play with 24 1/4" Rains fretboards on it.😳😂

Great catch Tommy! That's too funny.

Ron

In early September this year, I received a phone call from a guy who lives in the Isle Of Wight, in the UK. He wanted to know if I was interested in buying his Sho~Bud LDG. I asked him about it and it transpired to be an early round front big body 'Bud. He reckoned there was absolutely no colour fade anywhere. He said that he wanted £350 ($527) for it, as that was what he paid for it in the mid-70's in the UK. We had a price war on Sho~Buds in the UK with a London outlet competing with a retailer from Kent. The Kent retailer was trying to undercut the one from London, and was almost selling at a loss. It was this guy that my seller got his LDG from.

I asked him a number of times if he was sure about the price as it was worth much more than he wanted, but he was adamant that he merely wanted to get his money back. He said that he tried to play it just the once and that it had been in the case ever since the mid 70's. I caught the ferry from Southampton and met him on his side of the water. I couldn't believe it when I saw the guitar - it was absolutely mint. He was a happy camper with the $527 as was I. I immediately sold it for the same amount to one of my young pupils who had been using my Emmons push pull up to then. My pupil was just delighted with the 'Bud, especially as it was set up in Day mode. It was a rack and barrel mechanism, with no pot metal parts.

Just goes to show that there are bargains around - you just have to be in the right place at the right time.

Ken - Kudos to you for taking advantage of this situation to help a student get his/her hands on a really great machine and not just turning this around for a fast personal profit. What you've done and the Mickey Adams "giveaways" remind me what a good community this is!

Tommy White wrote:The Sierra keyless is a 25" scale guitar. I'd bet that is a real party to play with 24 1/4" Rains fretboards on it.😳😂

That would mean he would sound more like me than like you!

Kyd Brenner wrote:Ken - Kudos to you for taking advantage of this situation to help a student get his/her hands on a really great machine and not just turning this around for a fast personal profit. What you've done and the Mickey Adams "giveaways" remind me what a good community this is!

Well Kyd
When you have a very young pupil who has little or no chance of ever affording to buy a half decent pedal steel, you put profit way behind the act of getting them started. I have agreed with her and her father that if she decides to give up the instrument at any point, they will sell it back to me at the price that I charged them. They agreed straight away.