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Post by reverendrob on Feb 2, 2024 15:20:41 GMT -5
It's kind of like the people who are so enamored with the old Teisco brand crap. I had one it it was beyond a piece of junk. Why would anyone want something like that if they are a real guitar player. I would be embarrassed to have one of those in the case, in the closet, behind a pile of Les Pauls. Might make a good dart board if hung on the wall backwards. i don't know some people payed a pretty penny for some Teisco crap recently among other things
Celeb auction ,not...normal.
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Feb 2, 2024 19:39:39 GMT -5
To be clear, I do think there COULD be a market for these and they COULD be cool guitars. The old ones are sometimes pretty awesome. But, the stars have to align perfectly. They need to be in good shape, be at least above average for tone, and they need to have the neck angle and frets in good shape... I've done neck resets on some of these for people determined to get them to play well, and they come out okay. Especially some of the hollow bodies, they're cool in a sort of Casino/cheap Gretsch sort of way. You can pick them up a dime a dozen, but either getting one in immaculate playing condition OR paying some dude like me to do all of that work on it will make it easily exceed the price of a repro.
I just have my doubts a modern repro is going to do it. Modern repros tend to sort of vanilla a lot of vintage quirks, and by the time you do that, you just haven't made anything interesting enough. Especially with those pickups... I know some people have worked their butts off to get a decent repro of the old gold foil pickups and it is possible, but most often they're replicas in appearance only and just sound like a strat pickup. Maybe they're pretty cool... but, I dunno.
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Post by reverendrob on Feb 2, 2024 20:41:33 GMT -5
To be clear, I do think there COULD be a market for these and they COULD be cool guitars. The old ones are sometimes pretty awesome. But, the stars have to align perfectly. They need to be in good shape, be at least above average for tone, and they need to have the neck angle and frets in good shape... I've done neck resets on some of these for people determined to get them to play well, and they come out okay. Especially some of the hollow bodies, they're cool in a sort of Casino/cheap Gretsch sort of way. You can pick them up a dime a dozen, but either getting one in immaculate playing condition OR paying some dude like me to do all of that work on it will make it easily exceed the price of a repro. I just have my doubts a modern repro is going to do it. Modern repros tend to sort of vanilla a lot of vintage quirks, and by the time you do that, you just haven't made anything interesting enough. Especially with those pickups... I know some people have worked their butts off to get a decent repro of the old gold foil pickups and it is possible, but most often they're replicas in appearance only and just sound like a strat pickup. Maybe they're pretty cool... but, I dunno. Yea, the only real "old stuff" worth it at all in the Harmony are the hollows - the solids are...pretty much...'hello, junk.' The proper gold foils, yea, that'd be something I don't see happening at that price point given the sets are $300+ for the proper ones and MIA at Heritage.
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Post by Seldom Seen on Feb 3, 2024 19:23:32 GMT -5
I’m sure it’s a perfectly good guitar:
It started back in 1963. His momma wouldn’t buy him that new red Harmony. He settled for a sunburst with a crack, and he’s still trying to break his mommas back John Hiatt
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