I'm interested in buying a '74 SG I saw on Facebook recently but wondering how much I should be paying for it. He's asking £1500 but I reckon somewhere closer to £1000 is reasonable, any experts on here able to help me out?
Couldn't find any past sales of similar guitars on here, but if anyone has evidence of them going for less that'd be even more helpful!
If people think £1500 is a good price then fair enough, I'd just like to make sure!
Link to Facebook Ad:
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/110235476285758Thanks in advance,
Thom
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£1500 is certainly pushing it especially on a private sale - granted you don't see shed loads around now - However if his thought pattern is £1500 then I don't see him dropping a 1/3 in value unless he needs the cash - You can hang around until you see another one - At £1500 I'd want no fret issues, clean pots/switch and 100% kosher - £1000/1200 is more in line IMO on a private sale
That made them a great second hand buy from the mid 70's onwards.
They were a great buy because they were cheap.
I agree with all of the thoughts from guitars4you about the asking price.
Obvious question for the OP is "Why do you want one?"
If you were born in 1974 that would be a great reason to want one.
If not......£1500 is getting close to a second hand Historic Gibson SG.
Cheers everyone, keep the thoughts coming!
And yes somewhat of a 'vintage vibe' for less dollars - I don't think most of the 70's guitars can ever be considered vintage to the purist, but I get your point that they possess some old school vibe, a bit different to a new guitar, so some character at an affordable price - And you won't loose much in the short term if you had to sell it and in the long term it should increase in value
Whilst they aren't rare/unique, neither are they 10 a penny
As a self confessed SG fan, I found the neck too thin in comparison to my other SG's so it got moved on fairly shortly after I bought it. nice little guitar though.
If it had neck binding I might have been interested but there appears to be a few variations around that time including pickup spacing and bigsby options.
Those 70's SG's are about as far removed from an SG as you can get IMO - the only things that are similar are the body shape (debatable) and the Logo.
I had a 72 and didn't sound anything like other SG's, it was bland sounding, a clubby neck and the brown colour didn't help matters either.
IMO, I would save your money and buy a used 62 reissue..
It was a nice guitar that was well setup I thought. If I didn't have two other SG's at the time I probably would have kept it.
The body is bereft of the proper contouring on 70's SG's which is a shame.
I'd only consider one if I'd played it and it played great or like someone else mentioned a sentimental reason like YOB.
But I wouldn't. I tried one once. It was okay-ish.
To be perfectly honest, I just couldn't get past the brown....