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Wood does change over time as well - old guitars do sound different.
If anyone wants to say the wood doesn't make a difference on a solid body electric go and play a PRS Standard (all mahogany body) alongside a PRS Custom (thick maple cap) first.
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My favorite Tele is the 78 I have now ,it sounds great with BKP flat 50's.
Neither is fashionable,I have had other 70's Fenders and Gibson's I also liked as well as modern guitars..
70's guitars have a bad rep.Maybe I'm just lucky.
The Duncan Designed pickups were IMHO ok but not great. I'll agree with you that the Jap pickups aren't great - and the DDs are better. BUT the bridge on the VM I had was made out of pot metal and rattled like a bag of washers on a spin cycle. The trem was shocking. The fretting was crap (literally every VM I have played and set up has had choking problems when bending strings above the 12th fret - I'm now up to 12 guitars on that score, leading me to believe there may be either a design flaw or that the ContractManufacturer for Fender - perhaps Yako, I'm not sure on these - isn't following the brief 100%.
Each to their own and your experience seems very different to mine but it isn't true to say the VMs are 'better' guitars.
My opinion - neither right nor wrong - is I don't like them!
It's gone crazy since, but that's what started it all. Lots of other guitars have been dragged along as collectibles in their wake, but it all started because you HAD to buy second hand. Anyone who now thinks that a passion for old guitars is just silliness should remember that at one time we had no choice.
Acoustics are different. I'd say the passage of time is a factor but it's mostly the construction techniques and the fact that the production numbers were much lower lets say pre Beatles hysteria.
I have a 1964 Martin 00-21ny that sounds different to it's closest modern day equivalent, the 00-28vs. But listen to recordings of Big Bill Broonzy playing a 1946 000-28 a couple of years after it was made. It sounded great already, it already had that sound.
Still, there are many great modern acoustics made by small boutiques like Santa Cruz etc... and the golden era / authentic Martin's. The best one's are usually the most expensive ones which makes sense.
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