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What would persuade you to spend £20,000 on a guitar?

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TedTed Frets: 126
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Assuming you had the spare money what sort of features, feel, woods, bridge tone etc would you look for?

Someone recently advertised an exquisite Les Paul on this forum which would do it for me - although it's slightly over the budget.
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  • teradaterada Frets: 5114
    The ability to sell it for more in the future
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  • darthed1981darthed1981 Frets: 11913
    Nothing!
    You are the dreamer, and the dream...
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  • jellybellyjellybelly Frets: 763
    It would need to be a good condition, practically all-original vintage Fender or Gibson that had been used on multiple famous recordings by a player I had big respect for. 

    It would definitely not be a current production guitar with a AAAAAAAAA bookmatched top and gold hardware. No matter how many ‘A’s were in there. 
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 72676
    If I’d won the lottery and the ‘56 Les Paul Custom I should have bought in 1999 for £4000 came up for sale.

    "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

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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24850
    The presence of a serial number....
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  • SlopeSoarerSlopeSoarer Frets: 851
    edited April 2019
    Nothing!
    Totally agree!

    richardhomer said:
    The presence of a serial number....
    I've got some serial numbers on guitars, you can have one of mine: )
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  • GrumpyrockerGrumpyrocker Frets: 4159
    The only thing that would make any guitar worth £20,000 is that it would appreciate in price to be sold at a later date.

    There is nothing, nada, zip about such a guitar that has anything at all to do with it being a musical instrument. And you can pretty much say that well before £20,000.

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  • TedTed Frets: 126
    What it if was handcrafted by a trio of Bob Taylor, Chris Martin and Paul Reed Smith working together to produce a design that was inspired by the artist Jeff Koontz?
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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24850
    edited April 2019

    The presence of a serial number....
    I've got some serial numbers on guitars, you can have one of mine: )
    I was revisiting a long standing forum joke about a very expensive vintage guitar which was sold by a dealer. It’s serial number was illegible - though the dealer attributed this to someone having heavy-handedly scraped a sticker off which previously  obscured the number....
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  • OilCityPickupsOilCityPickups Frets: 10732
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    Actually very little would persuade me to drop that sort of cash on one instrument. Drunkenness perhaps :-)
    Hypothetically I suppose a 'birth year' guitar ... which in my case is 1959 ... so not much choice! I love Juniors, but they are way under that price ... and to be honest I'd probably drop far less on a modern reproduction like @IvisonGuitars even if I had the money. A player grade 59 Strat would be great ... but again way under £20,000
    Guess I'm just a 'cheap date'. :-)

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  • vonLayzonfonvonLayzonfon Frets: 108
    terada said:
    The ability to sell it for more in the very near future
    ^This.
    Nothing!
    ^And this.

    I can get everything I want from a guitar for about £500.
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  • tone1tone1 Frets: 5187
    20k would have to represent such a small percentage of my overall savings before I considered spending that much....so it ain’t gonna happen  :s
    http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/59137/tone1#latest
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  • gringopiggringopig Frets: 2648
    edited July 2020
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  • tone1tone1 Frets: 5187
    edited April 2019
    terada said:
    The ability to sell it for more in the very near future
    ^This.
    Nothing!
    ^And this.

    I can get everything I want from a guitar for about £500.
    Absolutely this for me^...Anything over £500-£600 is wasted on me..... I spent £1300 on PRS 513 once and sounded half as good as I did on a £500 Strat 
    http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/59137/tone1#latest
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  • TedTed Frets: 126
    What if Jimmy Page put his name on the headstock and personally guaranteed that it was the most superb guitar that had ever been produced in the history of the world?
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  • TTBZTTBZ Frets: 2914
    edited April 2019
    I'd get a proper LP Custom and pocket the rest of the money.
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  • KittyfriskKittyfrisk Frets: 19033
    Threat of crucifixion. 

    Naa, I'm only pulling your leg. It's crucifixion, really.
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  • wesker123wesker123 Frets: 496
    Gilmour's LP goldtop.
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  • SassafrasSassafras Frets: 30318
    For 20 grand I'd want the thing to play itself with a full backing band included.
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  • tralfamadantralfamadan Frets: 31
    Nothing. But it isn't me that would need persuading...!
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