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*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
85s and 86s fetch big money. 87 to 91 will fetch a premium. They switched from using Brazilian Rosewood for the fingerboard in 91, so they are worth less after that.
If there is a premium on 91 to 95 "pre-factory" guitars then it's not a very big one.
You would be better off picking up something from one of the younger master builders in the Fender Custom Shop, and hope he goes on to get the kind of reputation that Todd Krause, or the late John English have/had.
The really collectable ones are the '85s and '86s.
"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
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Here's a proper pre-factory model - https://reverb.com/uk/item/3624480-1977-paul-reed-smith-pre-factory-guitar
The small brands don't have a name known widely enough, and the bigger guys are churning out millions of the damn things on CNC machines.
So it's going to be bigger name items that for some reason were discontinued or amended in some way, ideally with a bit of press interest. Pre Lawsuit stuff, limited run stuff.
If ThorpyFX is still around in 50 years then the Muffroom Cloud will probably fall into that bracket even if they are still making the Fallout Cloud at that point.
That's the problem I suppose - we'll never know what will end up being a "pre lawsuit" type product until there is a dispute.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
Not a particularly clever idea - but I would say later and later Gibsons. Early 70's are going up and up, in 50 years - getting a non weight relieved Les Paul from (say) 80's or even 90s?
That's a good buy.
Similar logic - Gibson/Fender custom shop, whether you like them or not
It will be less of an issue for Fender style guitars, but might make Gibson/PRS/high end acoustics more valuable.
It's like saying the Morris Ital is collectible because people mistake them for a poorly designed rust-bucket and so let them go to the scrap heap. As of last year there's only 43 left registered in the the UK. Super duper rare, and getting rarer.
SADLY THIS. We are an aging bunch, so the market is going to get smaller and smaller too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh8cgiHBIg8