It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
I just sold a bunch of camera gear, all with boxes, papers and even the plastic bags inside and the cable wire ties.
"Oh, you came so close but you've failed....the test. I was going to give you this one off private stock, treated with John Mayer's own sputum for supreme playability...but now it's the band saw for you."
Only kidding, I've grown attached to it. Lovely colour, great tone and lightweight too.
It's bizarre to me. But then I don't get collecting either
The night before he called me and said he noticed a mark in one of the pictures, can I go check cos it could just be dust.
I managed to find it, and it may as well have been dust. Smaller than the head of a pin, just in the lacquer and under where your arm would go.
"I don't want it then"
"oh, are you sure? I could barely even find the mark its that small"
"No I don't want it. My other one is spotless so I know it would annoy me seeing them side by side".
I always hear this as being some sort of desirable thing to do/have with an old guitar, but I've yet to see anyone actually pay a higher price just because this sort of rubbish is included.
It's even worse with amps - I sometimes get asked to keep leaking electrolytic caps or cooked resistors. What possible value can there be to keep them? I just bin them, where they belong.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
Just bought a masterbuilt from VnR in bath sans COA & correct case. Even 'worse', finish taken off the back of the neck, as it was a long term gigging guitar and that's what the previous owner liked, and it has (shock horror) real playing wear rather than a factory relic job..........
To me the fact it was well loved, gigged and played well was most important. It will be used in a similar manner going forward.
Let's see come (inevitable) resale time how I do!
I *can* see that not having the correct case (as in correct type, not necessarily the one that was pulled from a rack of identical cases at the factory and supplied with that guitar...) makes a difference to the value. The other stuff, that has no practical or functional purpose, shouldn't.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
But I'm not sure it beats your bassist, since I think it was in 1988 - I didn't have it long, and I know I traded it for a Martin 12-string in 1989. That seems like a long time ago...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
For anyone who is missing their Gibson case candy :-)
Not mine.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
"I don't know; what kind of strings do you get with a Musicman bass?!"