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Edit - you're selling this one aren't you? What would you do if you realised it was damn close to a 64? Would you be tempted to keep it?
I'm quite familiar with vintage gibsons and fenders, however for my bass playing needs a custom shop more than fit the bill, so to answer your question... I wouldn't keep it regardless, even if it was a real 64, because selling it to fund another guitar purchase I'll be doing soon.
Shame I'm out of funds. I'd have considered your 64 CS!
I think it's probably more along the lines of buying the last stocks of discontinued models. They often seem to have numerous bits of a particular model for a while, then they all sell, then something else comes along to replace them.
It's unusual for them to have much Custom Shop stuff, but there's been more of it recently. I thought perhaps the profit margins were tighter - easy to turn a $600 guitar into $800 of parts, but maybe tougher to turn a $3,000 guitar into $4,000 of parts, especially when the only "premium" parts are the neck and body, maybe the pickups but certainly not the hardware.
I got is second hand, so paid what I consider a fair price for it. Personally, I wouldn't fork out £3.5k for a new tele, but no one is forcing anyone to do that.
Plenty of people seem happy to buy new, take a hit, then flip them so there are plenty of great ones out there to be had.
is that buying used, how do you know it's not fake?
same think applies with any high value Fender or Gibson really
The only CS I nearly bought was lovely, nice bloke selling it, a semi-pro I know through 2 contacts, but his CS was fake
I stick to Anderson and Suhr for that sort of stuff - better value used, and some significant design improvements too
Once you get deep into that, the different builders are then of varying quality
so there are those that are more desirable
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