Recent content by Blakey

They are not the pickups that were in it when I first saw it in the shop, in fact the shop was recently offering it with or without various available original parts? If you read the auction description, they state the guitar is currently fitted with the pickups and parts it had when the producer...

No deal as yet........

I went to see it again today and took my own pic I think it looks great! We're close maybe....... Thanks again for your help..

UGH.... I'm done. Thanks for the constructive comments and opinions from most of you.

Thank you for your opinion........ The market determines what it's worth.

A guitar that can change colour? In one picture it's washed out ,another it looks like it's got a sun tan! Did you not stop to think the camera might have something to do with that? I've seen it in the flesh...... it looks like a faded original Burst. A great job!

I'm not so sure, the parts have added a lot of value to this guitar. That's why I was trying to value just the "husk" but I take your point, thanks for that(y)

I'll second that, he's one of the better vintage guitar dealers in the UK.

As I said previously, I'm not sure of the Conversion market. I know the parts values but the "husk" seems to be debatable for a lot of reasons, some stated here in these threads. From my own experience of "having owned a few Bursts" I can vouch that this "Mutilated" "Butchered" "Remnant" of a...

Thanks. I can't remember what I paid for them but I think you're right! This was from the Eighties and Nineties. I do remember buying my first Burst for £975 in the Seventies! I bought the NBT Burst for $12,500 in 1987. I do have pictures of nearly all of them but it seems Reverb capacity is 1Mb...

As you wish......... '58 and '60. Then '59 with '59 TV Junior. Last one is a '58 V with Tweed Bassman. Someone had to be the custodians in the past, they're not a myth. There's a lot, lot more but they'd need resizing for this platform.

WOW. Ok thanks for your help.:oops:

There’re two sides to that debate I see what you're saying. However, assuming you DID try to keep the existing top and wanted a sunburst and not a gold top, to accommodate the humbuckers you’d need to route out some more wood and insert a visible infill to lose the old P90 routing. It’s most...

I was trying to work out the value of the parts which must account for some of the asking price, then maybe make an offer? There was another one around not quite as pretty which was 30K and it had been re-topped and had a repaired head.......? :oops:

Need some opinions please.......... I'm really seriously tempted by this, I saw it about two weeks ago at a shop in Oxfordshire UK, it looks, sounds and plays amazing. Has some original parts including long mag PAFs, '59 loom with matched pots, ABR-1 and 5-latch brown case. It has had the neck...