Gibson Midtown - what's a fair price?

menamestom

I really like mine.  Replaced the robo tuners, which were actually pretty good.  A no cost mod as I sold the robo tuners.
Also swapped the pickups to Mojo, which tbh are just another flavour of PAF, perhaps a bit clearer.

But the guitar is a keeper, can happily pull off Jazz, blues, funk, rock, etc.  I payed £700 last year, some were going cheaper but the sunburst ones seemed to stay around £700.


Independent of whatever they were at any point in time, they are still excellent value well made guitars. 

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

rossi said:

I bought a Pelham blue one for 600 on blowout .Its a cracking guitar (not the neck) and sounds good .I dont mind the robo tuners ..Its a fraction large for me as I am small and also very old ,and I find its heavy in its case  to lug around .I might sell it but know I will regret it .

In that case, I'll happily relieve you of the hardship of having to lug around such a heavy and cumbersome lump of a guitar! 

More than happy to match the £600 you paid for it new, so you don't lose a penny. Consider it a charitable service to an older fella.   

WindmillGuitars

I've had two of them in recent years - sold one at £750 and the other at £800. Nice guitars - only sold as I bought an ES137 Custom Shop which covered what I needed

paganskins

I bought my sunburst standard about 6 months ago for £550ish, however when I bought it it did have an area of cloudy finish on the back from reacting to stand.

rossi

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

rossi said:

I bought a Pelham blue one for 600 on blowout .Its a cracking guitar (not the neck) and sounds good .I dont mind the robo tuners ..Its a fraction large for me as I am small and also very old ,and I find its heavy in its case  to lug around .I might sell it but know I will regret it .

In that case, I'll happily relieve you of the hardship of having to lug around such a heavy and cumbersome lump of a guitar! 

More than happy to match the £600 you paid for it new, so you don't lose a penny. Consider it a charitable service to an older fella.   

tempted actually . willl think hard

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

rossi said:

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

rossi said:

I bought a Pelham blue one for 600 on blowout .Its a cracking guitar (not the neck) and sounds good .I dont mind the robo tuners ..Its a fraction large for me as I am small and also very old ,and I find its heavy in its case  to lug around .I might sell it but know I will regret it .

In that case, I'll happily relieve you of the hardship of having to lug around such a heavy and cumbersome lump of a guitar! 

More than happy to match the £600 you paid for it new, so you don't lose a penny. Consider it a charitable service to an older fella.   

tempted actually . willl think hard

Cool, just let me know. Would have to be posted mind you, don't fancy 9 hour round trip to Norfolk! 

rossi

no problem I live in Norfolk

 edit sorry misread it

Duppy03

I bought a P90 version with added Bigsby a few weeks back for £750. Great guitar, really happy with it. I was looking for a natural finish Custom but this one came up and I love P90's. No regrets Would love to get hold of Natural Custom one some day though.

I spent some time looking and saw a Midtown Standard P90 go for under £600, gutted I missed out on that one and a headstock repair Pelham Blue one go for not much over £400. But I'd say realistically your looking to pay between £700 - £850 (the first issue 2 control knob versions being the cheapest), then there's the Deluxe versions that creep up into the £1k price range.

Legionreturns

There's one up on the Facebook groups at the minute for £800 with no bites yet. I'm sure that could be haggled down by someone with you acumen 

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Legionreturns said:

There's one up on the Facebook groups at the minute for £800 with no bites yet. I'm sure that could be haggled down by someone with you acumen 

Yeah I've seen that one. Not 100% sold on the look of those earlier ones, especially the white pickup surrounds and the two white control knobs. Doesn't look right somehow.

I kinda want it to look like a 335 that's been shrunk in the wash to match my shortarse stature. Fussy sod, I know! 

Tat2dstesh

got a black standard that I was able to get a gibson scratchplate for and looks amazing 
https://i.imgur.com/PFqwPpk.jpg

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

That looks pretty tidy! Is that one of the 2015 ones with the robo-tuners?

Tat2dstesh

Yeah but I changed the tuners to Grover's as I hated the stupid tuners.. its my favourite guitar as it has that vibe plus looking at eBay I think people are pushing there luck with some midtown's 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/263679136543

sw67

Worth noting that the later 2015 guitars came with grovers from the factory -- mine did and i have the pic gibson supply with the guitar on the bench and you can see the tuners. 

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Tat2dstesh said: 

Yeah but I changed the tuners to Grover's as I hated the stupid tuners.. its my favourite guitar as it has that vibe plus looking at eBay I think people are pushing there luck with some midtown's 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/263679136543

To be fair, that guy explicitly says he's not looking for a sale, just trades. Hence the silly BIN price. Not sure why he's putting it on eBay if he wants a trade though, seems an odd decision!

Creed_Clicks

Had one of these. Solid guitar, stayed in tune very well. Mine had regular tuners, not the silly electronic ones.
Alongside a regular 335 style guitar, I thought the regular sized ones sounded better (deeper etc), which is why I sold mine. Really good guitar though if that's what you're after...