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Post by reverendrob on Feb 10, 2021 18:30:07 GMT -5
I admit I haven't kept up on vintage prices in a while, but when I saw a 1979 Mustang for 2k earlier....I don't know what to say.
The hipsters have won.
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Post by modbus on Feb 10, 2021 22:07:28 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't understand the economies of 2021. I checked the prices of mid 1990s American Standard Strats. A couple of years ago they were $800. Now they're 1200-1400. I never thought they'd make it over 1k.
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Post by windmill on Feb 11, 2021 0:40:10 GMT -5
For a few years now people have been predicting the end of the vintage gear boom. The last year has seen the price all guitars go up.
Is it virus causing more people start music making at home or just general inflation ?
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Post by Ayns on Feb 11, 2021 6:28:42 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't understand the economies of 2021. I checked the prices of mid 1990s American Standard Strats. A couple of years ago they were $800. Now they're 1200-1400. I never thought they'd make it over 1k. Cool. I've got a '94 AmSe Strat that has been my #1 gigging guitar for most of the last couple of decades. I bought it mint used condition for £450 including Fender hard case. 😊
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Post by modbus on Feb 11, 2021 7:30:42 GMT -5
I bought mine for $675 new in 1996. I'd never sell it, but it's a nice guitar and in my opinion, considerably better than 70s Strats that are valued twice as high.
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Post by bluzcat on Feb 11, 2021 8:46:54 GMT -5
I paid $650 (discounted) for my ‘98 Strat Plus in ‘99. The ‘99 American Standard was the same price. In 2004 I paid $999 for my 50th Anniversary but they were priced a little higher than the American SE’s that had recently come out. Both came with cases. The PRS CE’s are USA made, cost $1999 and only come with a nice gig bag.
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Post by Seldom Seen on Feb 11, 2021 11:28:31 GMT -5
Thirty years ago I swapped my ‘66 Fiesta Red Mustang for an Ibanez Super Tube and Parametric Equalizer. They were valued about equally back then. I can get the guitar back from my buddy any time but I’ve lived without it so long now I really don’t need it.
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Post by reverendrob on Feb 11, 2021 13:02:20 GMT -5
Yea, I paid no MORE than a buck fifty for my L plate Mustangs in the late 80s and early 90s.
Bassman heads (Blackface) were $100 or $150 too then!
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Post by Pinetree on Feb 11, 2021 22:59:47 GMT -5
It's gotta be a nostalgia thing.
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Post by reverendrob on Feb 12, 2021 16:54:12 GMT -5
It's gotta be, frankly that's Gibson money, and I prefer my Gibsons to my Mustangs ANY day of the week!
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Post by Blacksunshine on Feb 14, 2021 0:55:22 GMT -5
Makes me wonder what my 1965 L-series with original case is worth.
Not that I would sell it, it was my dad's that he passed down to me, so I'll die with it.
Still curious though...
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Feb 14, 2021 8:45:02 GMT -5
Yeah, very weird.
I've noticed that the used (as opposed to vintage) market will tend to ebb and flow along with new prices. So, someone might be willing to pay more for a used USA Strat from the '90s when the prices on new ones and newer used ones also go up. This has happened for a while with flagship Gibsons, and even with MIM instruments.
Hard to say on the Mustangs. There have always been certain people who lose their mind over anything vintage from a major manufacturer even if it isn't a desirable model, but those people normally only move the needle in the times when vintage prices are really high, like when '70s stuff was crazy expensive before the housing bubble. Those were also the first instruments to lose value.
Could be the hipsters. Or, it could be the aging grunge fans. Collectability of anything follows the maturation of those who grew up with it. With toys and comic books, you can almost follow the wave perfectly as people get in and out of it as they pass through middle age. The '80s guitars started being collectable about ten years ago, so now it is time for stuff that was popular in the '90s... except what was popular in the early '90s wasn't necessarily what was new. I'm already hearing that trend in music - that stuff is being played as "classics" and I'm hearing bad hipster covers of the stuff on my local station all the time.
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Post by modbus on Feb 14, 2021 12:07:33 GMT -5
The age of swimming pool routes is upon us.
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Post by bluzcat on Feb 14, 2021 23:16:02 GMT -5
The age of swimming pool routes is upon us. I’ve managed to hang on to my ‘98 swimming pool...😊
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Post by oldnjplayer on May 6, 2021 10:09:08 GMT -5
wow gotta tell my buddy. He has the Mustang he bought in 1967. In pristine condition. Funny we bought equipment together when we were 18. He bought the Mustang and a Fender Princeton. I opted to get a used Goya guitar so I could afford a Princeton Reverb. Which I still have. I had considered getting a Fender Stratocaster but decided against it so I could afford the Princeton Reverb.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on May 6, 2021 11:15:31 GMT -5
Here's a 1965 Mustang in shoreline gold from my obscenely huge collection:
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Post by langford on May 6, 2021 11:46:08 GMT -5
That's a beautiful guitar, PG. I have fond memories of Mustangs. My high school had a blue one with racing stripes in the back half of the 1970s. It was the first electric guitar I ever played, or at least the first good one that I played more than once. I've toyed with the idea of getting a Mustang, but have held off because it would be a nostalgia-driven purchase. That said, if I saw one in shoreline gold, I don't think I'd be able to resist.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on May 6, 2021 12:36:43 GMT -5
These were never made available in the gold color; that is something I did.
These came from Fender in red, white, or blue (no qualifier such as "Dakota," "daphne," "arctic," etc.). I found this Mustang in 1984 as a disassembled guitar in a cardboard carton in the back of a guitar shop. It was taken completely to bits, and the body had been badly sprayed more than once with rattle-can enamel. All the parts were there, even the brass shields for the switch and pickup cavities. I asked if it was for sale, and the shop owner said $150. i countered with $100, he replied $120, and I said "sold."
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Post by langford on May 11, 2021 20:27:17 GMT -5
That is an awesome story, PG. If you ever decide to unload it, I want first dibs. In addition to being a mustang, I'm slowly converting all my electrics to gold top variations. (Gold top variations. Hmmm... Is that the title of an Yngwie album?)
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Post by reverendrob on May 12, 2021 15:16:41 GMT -5
My original "main" one (I had several as backups). I dreamed of that thing for 15 years until getting the Squier ugly monster from Mfitz - it is a cosmetic wreck, but has "it" enough that I don't dream of the L-Plate any more.
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Post by Pinetree on May 13, 2021 8:47:53 GMT -5
That's a vintage photo.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2021 18:29:36 GMT -5
I guess if new American Performers are at 1200, a quality vintage one might warrant the price. I think the glut of cheap Mustangs bother me more, like plastic containers or Styrofoam cups. If you pay more for a phone than a guitar, something is wrong lol.
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Post by reverendrob on May 14, 2021 23:20:47 GMT -5
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Post by bluzcat on May 15, 2021 19:14:29 GMT -5
My dad had a ‘65 that someone had stripped all the white off of and brushed lacquered, which looked terrible. I refinished it for him in Seafoam Green. All original parts, with a late ‘64 neck date and early ‘65 dates on the pickups. My brother ended up with it when he passed. Part of me wishes I had it but it’s not something I would have played often.
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