Byron Dickens Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 about having vintage gear that I bought brand new.... 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 Better than thinking about the vintage gear that you bought new but then sold for cheap because you thought its value was dropping because it was getting old. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted June 4, 2022 Author Share Posted June 4, 2022 Ouch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveStrummerUK Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 That made me LOL Byron ? Mind you, on a related matter, I have absolutely zero clue as to why anyone would purchase a brand new road-worn/distressed/artificially-aged guitar. I believe this phenomena is unique to guitar posers players - I can't think of another instrument that's somehow 'improved' by this process ... Salesman: Yes sir, thank you for your purchase - let me add that I'd be happy to arrange free delivery to your home and full installation of this new $160,000 Steinway-D concert grand Purchaser: Thank you. Oh and by the way, before you dispatch, could you please take a chisel, sander and power drill to my new piano to make it look a bit like Beethoven played it 1 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 I have the same gear I was born with. It's now vintage. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grem Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 2 hours ago, bdickens said: about having vintage gear that I bought brand new.... Never thought of it that way!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grem Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 hour ago, bitflipper said: vintage gear that you bought new but then sold for cheap The few things I did sell (original Rockman and Powersoak) I regretted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grem Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 hour ago, SteveStrummerUK said: I have absolutely zero clue as to why anyone would purchase a brand new road-worn/distressed/artificially-aged guitar. I would have to agree with this. And they will charge you more for it!! They even have special 'aging shops' in store now!! With 'specialist' that command a premium price for damaging a perfectly new guitar!! Gotta SMH on that one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveStrummerUK Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 38 minutes ago, Grem said: I would have to agree with this. And they will charge you more for it!! They even have special 'aging shops' in store now!! With 'specialist' that command a premium price for damaging a perfectly new guitar!! Gotta SMH on that one. Grem, I can almost see the allure of a 'tribute' lookalike geetar such as the Joe Strummer Telecaster or EVH's Frankenstrat. But a guitar artificially aged seems pointless to me. Albeit I don't take my guitars on the road but my US P-bass, US J-bass, US Tele, US Strat, ESP and my beloved Ruby are all 8 - 15ish years old (all acquired new) and not one of them has as much as a dink or scratch on them anywhere. If someone offered to take a power tool to any of them to 'make them better' my response would not be favourable ? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wibbles Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Bapu said: I have the same gear I was born with. It's now vintage. Vintage or obsolete? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Wibbles said: Vintage or obsolete? Both. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Smith Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 3 hours ago, Bapu said: I have the same gear I was born with. It's now vintage. Yeah my knobs sag a little but they still work. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wibbles Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 13 hours ago, Tim Smith said: Yeah my knobs sag a little but they still work. Just be careful they don't come away in your hand if you twiddle them too hard. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertWS Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 I must be old, I don't get this distressed/vintage look...at all! 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_B. Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 15 hours ago, Tim Smith said: Yeah my knobs sag a little but they still work. I thought sag was a goos thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InstrEd Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 3 hours ago, RobertWS said: I must be old, I don't get this distressed/vintage look...at all! I just don't get the $$$$ of cut-up jeans. Really I got a nice sharp blade and I can do it for free 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Smith Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 On 6/5/2022 at 10:26 AM, Shane_B. said: I thought sag was a goos thing? Goos? You feeling better ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_B. Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Tim Smith said: Goos? You feeling better ? I am actually. Decided to stay another week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoo Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 On 6/4/2022 at 6:13 PM, bitflipper said: Better than thinking about the vintage gear that you bought new but then sold for cheap because you thought its value was dropping because it was getting old. Never done that, nope, surely not. I picked up a Korg MS-10 for £60 in a local music store years ago (late 90s) because it was a guitar shop and they didn't know how it worked so thought it was broken. I kept it for 3 or 4 years and then sold it for a couple of hundred as I didn't really use it and it was bulky and...then the price shot up to about £600 a couple of years later. Yay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennywtelejazz Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Hey I'm OK being an old fart playing a guitar I got new over 35 years ago Guild Blues Bird. The Brian Setzer Elliot Easton Model . Prototype # 15 . In 1985 / 86 Mark Dronge of Guild Guitars gave me this guitar as a gift .? RIP Mark Dronge . May 11, 2022. thank you for the guitar The President of Kramer Guitars Dennis Berardi found out Guild had given me a guitar so he sent a limo out to my apt , brought me out to the his guitar factory in New Jersey and told me to pick any guitar I wanted except for the Ripley ... Here is my Kramer Pacer . I put the decorative ornaments on the face of my guitar ..What can I say ....it was the 80's ....? Kenny 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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