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Byron Dickens

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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

 

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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.

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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 ?

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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.

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Hey I'm OK being an old fart  playing a guitar I got new over 35 years ago :P

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 .?  292197862_GuildBluesBird.thumb.jpg.0814242078a5fb2902b92d0614d8e070.jpg

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 ....?

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Kenny

 

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