Guitars... what you've got / what you want

People are asking insane prices for the Gibson I have on Reverb, like double what I paid a few years ago. I can't imagine they're actually fetching that much.

do 70s SGs have skinnier necks?

xp looks like it's selling consistently for 1300-1450 on reverb. it does seem like prices for everything have ticked up tho.

yeah when I look at the actual sale prices it's more in line with what I paid, guess there are just a couple ridiculous listings. Prices are ticking up though.

prices for everything are up, plus reverb increased fees to net 10% and people are trying to recover

i thought it was 5%

have a Dean Dave Mustaine Zero guitar.

want one with a fuckin whammy bar or one that can play itself cos I suck.

Spottie - Reverb fee is 5%, then add reverb or PayPal processing fee. then deduct shipping since you listed with free shipping ;-)

I’m going to actually try selling stuff local instead of via Reverb next time I have something to sell. I hate Craigslist but shipping keyboards and guitars is such a PITA.

the first time I sold a guitar and shipped it I failed to appreciate how costly and difficult it was if you don't know what you're doing and basically lost a lot of money on the sale

Dimensional weight is a motherfucker.

I had a guitar shop in Washington ship me an Ampeg VT40 combo once - it probably weighed 100 pounds on its own and had free shipping. They must have been desperate to make it go away.

i think the last time I sold a guitar and amp I literally hand-delivered it to a friend cos fuck shipping that stuff.

Spottie - Reverb fee is 5%, then add reverb or PayPal processing fee. then deduct shipping since you listed with free shipping ;-)

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, June 2, 2021 9:05 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

ah, got it. i think offerup is a good option, at least for gibsons and fenders since you'll get enough eyes on those. also offerup for amps for sure. reverb prob better for higher end stuff or more rare.

*casts the shape of a PRS headstock and bird fretboard inlays into the pits of hell and eternal damnation*

I really like the birds! Did not know until a few years ago that they're all different species!

I've never actually played a PRS. Their S2 series has always intrigued me.

The best-looking S2s also lack birds :/

https://prsguitars.com/products/s2_electrics

ha I was actually just looking at an S2 standard sunburst on Craigslist and thinking how much I'd like that guitar with a different headstock, which inspired the post

i wonder if you could put a gibson headstock on it?

the thing that is most exhausting to me about the PRS aesthetic is the transparent tops with all the figured maple woodgrain stuff, like would it kill them to make a guitar that's painted a solid color

You guys should def trade me an oldish tele for my washington hatcats themed prs. It's a solid color!

Even flame top Les Pauls are ugly IMO. Plain tops look so cool in a darker edged burst, I see no reason to gild the lily.

yah not a fan of PRS's and it's all based on aesthetics.

hard to tell from sufjans pic but that prs looks like just normal paint no transparent?

It is very normal. A 1999 ford explorer eddie bauer guitar.

lol

pretty wild you're the only one with a PRS thus far.

*tips fedora and plays lick from 'evil ways'*

My understanding is that if you own both a PRS and a Mesa Boogie, you can get instantly licensed as a Blues Dentist.

My sources may be wrong, however.

always a boogie short

Blues Dentists vs Tone Attorneys

i made fun of the quilted burst top / bird inlay prs aesthetic on one of the guitar threads here; after christmas this year the guitar player in my band bought himself a blue burst prs with the bird inlays

Did you then mercilessly mock and humiliate him, such that he quit the band in disgrace?

(Just kidding, of course. I would only mock someone who brought a Rich Bich to a folk session.)

P sure my ES-335 Studio is an official junior tone associate guitar. It plays blues in every key.

Despite owning multiple Fender offsets I've never put my hair up into a (man)bun.

watched this today, remembered how much I'd like a Firebird VII w/ Lyre vibrola.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A29BMj3v86w

those are so cool looking but the body size and the banjo tuners is just....a lot.

i've ordered some stuff to continue modding the tele thinline--b/w/b guard, deluxe-style knobs, and 1-meg pots for tone and volume to match the original spec for all the wide-range equipped fenders.

If you need the repro WRHBs to sound cleaner, you can screw out (or even remove) the hidden polepieces from underneath the pickup, effectively you get around 1.5 polepieces per string instead of 2, gets a little more single coil although it's still a bar magnet pickup.

I played a PRS a few years ago & was blown away, but the aesthetics of the thing were so awful that I couldn’t possibly.

The aesthetics of a PRS are borderline upsetting to me, like the fact that someone with the money to buy a very nice guitar would think THAT looks nice

https://images.app.goo.gl/TFttsGCf2dfh35KLA

it was a picture of mark tremonti

and you know what he was doing

Just to show you where my mind is at lately, I got an email from our office manager about a "Shredding Pickup" and was very confused

“EMGs are always popular, boss. No noise, well balanced across the EQ spectrum.”

"sorry, corporate policy dictates employees use Seymour Duncan Dimebag Darrells...going to have to notify HR about this incident"

man alive, have you seen the new Harmony guitars? Made in the old Gibson/Heritage factory in Kalamazoo

https://www.harmony.co/pages/comet

$1499 for a USA made semi-hollow is not a bad deal in guitars right now

the birds are already enough, but i'd forgotten about all of the dragon inlay stuff associated with PRS. oh my.

mine even has bridge and neck humbuckers called "Dragon IIs"

‘70s conversion van chic

I wonder how many of their ubiquitous and over-the-top design choices were necessary for brand recognition after they chose a 3-named dude's full autograph as their logo