Rusty Chops
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I once met a hooker with a tattoo of a seashell on the inside of her thigh.
When you put your ear up to it you could smell the ocean.
Sometimes Vintage Gear Just Sucked
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I once met a hooker with a tattoo of a seashell on the inside of her thigh.
When you put your ear up to it you could smell the ocean.
Collywobbles
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Some more random thoughts. I think high end vintage gear is very hard to approach objectively. Two of the nicest guitars I've played were a 1954 (first year) Stratocaser (much messed around but a beautiful sounding and playing guitar) and an original 1958 sunburst Les Paul Standard. Did I like them because I knew what they were or becaue they were great guitars? I'm not sure. I have played very early blackguard Teles that I've not liked and earlier '50s goldtop Les Pauls I've not thought were worth the money, so it's probably not just that they were old or valuable. So I agree, somethimes vintage gear just sucked. But sometimes, like the old lady below, it didn't.
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Collywobbles
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I always liked this too - about as close to vintage as a factory made PRS gets. I really liked the Private Stock 1985 reissue I tried recently too. Are the newer ones better? Maybe, maybe not. They're certainly different. There's room for both I think.
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Alnus Rubra
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alantig
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gush
Where is that speedo pic
Ha ha. I made the mistake of buying an HSS strat that had the locking nut that had a cam lever on the side. It locked strings from the side not down like a floyd.
Ah.....it tried to lock the strings from the side.
gush
Where is that speedo pic
Hold on there fella.....what is this and please post more pics of both.I always liked this too - about as close to vintage as a factory made PRS gets. I really liked the Private Stock 1985 reissue I tried recently too. Are the newer ones better? Maybe, maybe not. They're certainly different. There's room for both I think.
No doubt, but I meant to say that some are wonderful, while some haven’t aged well at all. It’s pretty easy to hear when an old guitar’s gone sour. I’ve played both good and bad. For the $50k some of these are fetching...I don’t think so.
Same with prewar Martins, etc.
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bodia
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I always liked this too - about as close to vintage as a factory made PRS gets. I really liked the Private Stock 1985 reissue I tried recently too. Are the newer ones better? Maybe, maybe not. They're certainly different. There's room for both I think.
This one? Again? That does it. I'm putting my blue '95 CE in the window. East in the AM, West in the PM. Full exposure!
I love this one!
shinksma
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Hah, speaking of late-70s Les Pauls:
I have a 1979 Les Paul Deluxe, might be a close sister to @Boogie 's. But it plays very well! Good action, neck feels smooth. I got it in the late 90s from a co-worker who was selling it because he never played it. He had bought it new in 1979, played it for a while as a hobby, then kinda let the hobby lapse, got a real job, got married, etc. I was looking for something different from the Mexi-strat I was playing at the time, and even though it didn't have "real humbuckers" in it I took him up on the offer of paying him his asking price: what he had paid originally, CDN$400. I didn't realize until later when I showed it to a different co-worker what the likely true street value of it was - at the time about CDN$2000. I see very similar ones (cherry burst, plain three-piece top) listed on Reverb now for US$3K.
It was the guitar I played when I first started gigging with my current band, before I fell into the PRS black-hole alternate universe. I play it very rarely now, partly because I just love my PRSi so much, but also because it weighs a ton! Gotta be over 10 lbs! It is still in very good maybe excellent condition.
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Steve's addiction
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Here's a car example:I love 60s/70's carrs. Always wanted that dream car. I got the chance to take my bosses 64 mustang to an auto show. Beautiful red coup
Ended up being a terrible ride. Felt like I was driving an old vw. I think its the same with vintage equipment. Looks a lot better than it drives.
Ended up being a terrible ride. Felt like I was driving an old vw. I think its the same with vintage equipment. Looks a lot better than it drives.
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Yeah. My wife had a beautiful white 6.6 litre Trans Am for a few years. It looked and sounded great and accelerated well enough to push you well back into the seat, but at 160km/hr it started to shake enough you couldn’t really see through the rear window any more.
My modern sports car is so much smoother, and comfortable.
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gush
Where is that speedo pic
See above (and below)
I can't go to work after seeing this. I'm weak in the knees.
bodia
Authorities said.....best leave it.....unsolved
I need to buy something else so I can post some different picturesThe pics are new though - I played it the other day and dumped it on its case and thought the sunlight was catching it nicely and highlighting the bit of remaining blue in the fake binding so took a few pics. This is it back in the day at RSM, not quite as faded - it's top right just above the dark bass (picture copied from Premier Guitar's article 20 Coolest Guitar Stores in the US - Volume 1). I think it was on display at RSM for around 20 years so get started with your CE... Second shot is also from when it was at RSM, which shows just how much it can vary depending on the light - that's pretty much how it looks today in some light. It's also shown briefly in RSM's Youtube video of 5 0040 (which I also owned for a bit).
Good stuff! I got to see a Rasta up close and personal a couple of weeks ago. I was meeting a guy who was looking to buy one of my guitars. He showed up with a Rasta so I would know he wasn't some crackpot from the Internet. It was in great shape, too. I should have made him an offer.....
gush
Where is that speedo pic
Oh yeah......that Rasta is sweet!!!
Collywobbles
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So I'm wondering why someone bringing a rasta friend to vouch for them would help show that they're not a crackpot from the internet but then worked it out. That said I'm not sure an interest in old PRS is a sign someone's sane either, but at least it shows their probably interested in guitars. Be fun to see any pics you took of it.
bodia
Authorities said.....best leave it.....unsolved
We met in the lobby of a local police station....got be safe! I only took one. And, before you ask, the synth stuff is velcro'd on. No screw holes!
Collywobbles
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We met in the lobby of a local police station....got be safe! I only took one. And, before you ask, the synth stuff is velcro'd on. No screw holes!
That's pretty cool! I wonder what the police thought - I've done deals in carparks, service stations and in cafes (and sat in an Aston Martin, sadly not mine) - never a police station. Neat it's still being used as these are 25 years old plus now - the synth stuff suggests it is.
Sorry Sergio - I seem to have turned your thread on the wonders of destroying or chucking vintage gear in to more of a celebration of the stuff.
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gush
Where is that speedo pic
Ya know...... ...there has never been a guitar company that offers as many models that I lust after as PRS does.
Crazy......
Crazy......
