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Denmark Street Guitars currently has one of Waylon Jennings personal Telecasters for sale....yeah, chaps....course it is....
(formerly miserneil)
They used to buy old TVM sound 50 watt PA heads as they had a full set of RS trannies just like the JTM's. I picked one up for £10 in a secondhand shop once and sold it for £400 just for the trannies.
There were two rolls of brown pinstripe, one went to Paul Goodhand-Tait and one went to Music Ground. Paul only sold it for restos, I bought some of it for a '67 strap handled 4x12. Music Ground however cultivated the notion that it was originally used in rare circumstances and made many lash ups using it.
Crooks indeed.
Rob.
The blatant nature of it? I reckon they've told so many lies, for so long, that they actually believe their own narrative.
My own legal remedy is dead simple, the dog can't bite you if you're not in the same room.....
I was doing a deal with someone about 12 months ago and he told me his friend was a full-time employee of Justins. His job was to artificially age stuff. So apparently it is still happening.
For me personally, the combination of this sort of dishonesty which permeates the vintage market (even if usually to a slightly lesser degree than the Harrisons) and the ludicrous prices, has killed whatever interest I once had in old gear.
I'm just pleased I don't know any of these scum personally. "The Supreme Cunts Of Rock'n'Roll", as their logo (nearly) says...
"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
(formerly miserneil)
Sadly the guitar media and certain other individuals (who have vested interests in the vintage market increasing in value) make great pains to tell you that you *need* a vintage guitar because these are "better". And like sheep, folks believe the message and spend fortunes buying instruments that may or may not be what they purport to be... if the Harrisons are involved, its unlikely.
Some vintage guitars have been for sale for years - literally years, for decades in some cases. They pop up for sale in one vintage emporium and then another, and then another... For example: there is a white Shergold Double Neck that the Harrisons have had for at least six years, before that it spent at least 10 years being passed around the various London dealers. Its not a bad guitar its just massively overpriced. I've played it at least three times and its legit but all those years doing nothing hasn't done it any favours.
I'm not knocking those who buy vintage instruments - good luck to all of you and I truly hope you find what you are looking for. However, it is a minefield and I'm no longer convinced that its the only way to acheive tonal nirvana - sadly there's too much noise telling us that it is.
Thanks for expressing your views Neil and @impmann without the usual attendant hyperbole and hysteria.
The USA is full of unmolested golden era Gibson Jazz Boxes at great prices.
There is just one tiny problem. The PAFs were harvested a long time ago.
But why is that a problem? Great pickups that tick every box are not expensive and there are people reading this post who can supply them right now.
A jazz box worked for Steve Howe and Ted Nugent. If you cant be with the one you love......love the one you're with. Stephen Stills told me that.
If you like Les Pauls....that is awkward. The only answer is to be patient, to figure out which 20 people you don't trust, and which one person you do trust 100%, and then deal with that person. Trapeze Gold Tops are still affordable to anyone that owns 3 Gibson CC models. Authentication is essential but the good news is that most fakers are not creating fake GTs with the flat/mistake neck angle.
For the very nervous who wants a forensic examination, there is always a Conversion. (Removing the finish from a 50s GT and then being the first person since 1952 to look at the neck pocket is drastic but is absolutely the last word in authentication....and then provenance). George Gruhn cannot match that - he can only give an opinion.
Didn't he authenticate that POS Explorer recently for sale for almost a million dollars ? - a guitar I've actually been in the presence of. That is until wiser heads gave him a tap on the shoulder at a show..the attendant attempts to withdraw his authentication were made full use of by the wolves trying to flog it. It must have been excruciatingly embarrassing for him, after all, he's supposed to know what he's doing.
I personally think there's piss in the well...having to be ultra careful what one says or what one does around these guitars, has certainly taken much of the joy out of it for me.
Given that the new CITES regulations make getting a guitar from the US here a whole boatload more hassle for the seller, some US sellers I've spoken to refuse to sell outside the lower 48 currently.
IMO the only way to truly satisfy yourself when buying is to research the guitar/amp you are buying to the nth degree - the info is readily available online including examples of good fakes - and trust your own judgement.
(formerly miserneil)
Re that Fake Britain programme, not only has it disappeared from YouTube, the BBC seems to have removed any mention of guitars from their description of that particular episode. All I could find was the subtitle file, from which I pulled the following transcript.
(formerly miserneil)
Note, I don't speak Italian, so had to use Google translate, which is often hard to interpret.
http://www.veronasera.it/cronaca/verona-furto-chitarre-collezione-musical-box-accusati-commercianti-inglesi-24-settembre-2015.html