ViperDoc
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How could you slide into home plate (December 2016 GOM) with anything less than a 20TH ANNIVERSARY PS DRAGON? If we're climbing to the top of the PS mountain, should it not be ruled by a Dragon? Or a WIZARD.......
SPECULATION: 20TH ANNIVERSARY PS DRAGON OF THE MONTH
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veinbuster
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There's still time for them to take your subtle hint.
My first PRS dealer had one of the first dragons. I could have bought it at a super price, because he made the mistake of putting it on display near his window, and it faded. So it was a tough sell at the time. I didn't buy it, and should have.
He also had a '53 Goldtop for $3500. And I passed on that, too because the case smelled like it had been to too many bars and sat in too many basements, and no doubt that was true, but.... $3500. What are those going for today?
When it comes to guitar investing, I am the Anti-genius.
Then again, I'm no collector. I have a friend who really does collect guitars, and decided a long time ago that he'd pass on the usual collector fare, and go for the rarities, so he got into Kay jazz boxes. This, when things like '65 Strats were cheap.
Very few people have any desire for Kay jazz boxes. So...yeah, maybe not the most perfect choice for him, either...
He also had a '53 Goldtop for $3500. And I passed on that, too because the case smelled like it had been to too many bars and sat in too many basements, and no doubt that was true, but.... $3500. What are those going for today?
When it comes to guitar investing, I am the Anti-genius.
Then again, I'm no collector. I have a friend who really does collect guitars, and decided a long time ago that he'd pass on the usual collector fare, and go for the rarities, so he got into Kay jazz boxes. This, when things like '65 Strats were cheap.
Very few people have any desire for Kay jazz boxes. So...yeah, maybe not the most perfect choice for him, either...
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Stephen Rudnick
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If you look on Mark's Guitar Loft, he might have a sold '53 wrap tail GT that went for about 30K.
Here is the link. The price is not listed, but I remember this exact specimen going for that when it was not yet sold.
http://www.marksguitarloft.com/catalog.php?cat=electrics
Here is the link. The price is not listed, but I remember this exact specimen going for that when it was not yet sold.
http://www.marksguitarloft.com/catalog.php?cat=electrics
Tosca
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This is a great idea. Another thing that would be cool is if they let their top 10 or 20 dealers each design their own custom build GOM for December...limited to how many customers ordered them that month.
Dusty Chalk
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They've had Dragons before the 30th anniversary, but they always make them different, so the collectors are still getting only 1 of 50 or whatever. The dragon is just an inlay pattern on the top -- even if you put it on an entirely different guitar, that alone would be different.
veinbuster
Zombie Three, DFZ
Nobody is. The best you can do is to get lucky. It is impossible to predict what people are going to decide to spend huge amounts of money on 25-50 years from now.As I said, I'm no genius at guitar investing.
I just buy good quality stuff that I think will last as long as I care about it. Maybe when I stop caring, good quality stuff will be worth something to someone.
ViperDoc
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PRS doesn't do the inlay anyway, they send that stuff out. Maybe it's already in the works....There's no doubt, though, we've seen a bunch of new inlay this year (Vine, Birds of a Feather, etc...). One can only hope...
@Schefman-- A Dragon is only faded until it returns to the PTC for a refin. But who knows, you probably made the right call anyway.
@Schefman-- A Dragon is only faded until it returns to the PTC for a refin. But who knows, you probably made the right call anyway.
You're so right, but they didn't have the PTC in the early 90s (or if they did, I didn't know about it!).
This was back in 1993, and given the choice, I bought the shiny new Artist II they had just gotten into stock instead.
Obviously, I shoulda woulda coulda bought the Dragon. So I need a time machine and/or a do-over!
Also, I need a time machine and a do-over because I sold the Artist II later on in a studio gear deal. Come to think of it, I need a LOT of do-overs, which is one reason I don't have very many guitars. It's never that I don't love them. It's that I always seem to need something else and start looking around for "what can I sell?"
That's the way I feel as well. If the value goes up in 50 years, I'll still be just as dead.
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dsenoj
Old dude in a PRS T-shirt
Les, you've been here 800+ years. What's another 50?
Dusty Chalk
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What? I thought they did all their inlay work in house, now.
ViperDoc
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In the PRS blog for the April GOM, they plug Pearlworks, an inlay specialist who did the inlay for the fretboard and header for the Birds of a Feather pattern. They also send out for the Dragon inlays. I understand there are certain inlays they may do in house, but the more complicated ones they send out. Whether they have just the inlays fabricated offsite and then they place in house or whether it's all done offsite with stage-prepped necks and bodies is a case by case study, I'm sure.
RedGuitars
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Yeah - When I went to my first PRS forum event at the factory (way before Experience PRS) a bunch of us went to Garrett Park Guitars. At the time Rick had a collection for sale that was incredible, including a Dragon II or III with a tremolo. I had to be dragged out of there drooling...
Also remember spying a Rosewood Limited tremolo on eBay many moons ago for $7500 out of Chicago.
Back in the bargain days...
sigh
Also remember spying a Rosewood Limited tremolo on eBay many moons ago for $7500 out of Chicago.
Back in the bargain days...
sigh
Dusty Chalk
alberngruppenführer
Goldtop...made out of actual gold flakes.
Qty: 1
Qty: 1
veinbuster
Zombie Three, DFZ
NO! I need one too.
I've been waiting forever for the right gold SC.
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