stock_hippie
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My girlfriend said, "It looks fine. It looks just like the one you have."
$10K for a butchered trapeze '53 Goldtop seems very high to me. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to find a piece like that and just play it as is, but it should only cost about 40 % of what a clean 100% original goes for, $6K to $6.5K tops, IMO.
mentioning Burst players and using it to justify this stuff is crazy, IMO.
How else do you explain sunburst-PAF-mania.
Looks, tone and playability. :salude
Some folks see a conversion candidate in every GT because there are a lot more GTs made than bursts, we aren't the goldtop preservation society, and there are a lot of weird things done to GTs with low neck angles to get them to be somewhat playable. Some guys think if they're going to get all that work done to make it as playable as it can be, then a little top refinish, or new pickups routes ain't going to hurt.
I think this point of view sells the p90 short.
Looks, tone and playability. :salude
Good luck finding an unbroken example with org. finish for that price. My guess is you won't anytime soon. Not saying its a great deal. Said it was a fair deal. Don't think that guitar is "butchered" either. What guitar are you looking at? It's far from "butchered" ,IMO,OMMV. :jim
$10K for a butchered trapeze '53 Goldtop seems very high to me. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to find a piece like that and just play it as is, but it should only cost about 40 % of what a clean 100% original goes for, $6K to $6.5K tops, IMO.
How would a bigsby work with that neck angle? Can't use a abr, dog bone or wrap tail.
Fix the neck angle which means refinsh with repair of the incorrectly positioned tailpiece studs (which s bigsby could make sense to cover the area) or fill in the anchors, overspray the area and go back to a trap tail with a glazer type bridge.
It just seems to me that many folks see a conversion candidate in every GT...
I'd bigsby and dogbone it.
I totally agree. I payed 11k for a mint 52. That's a 6k guitar with that bridge placement. :dude:
Joe B
JB probably has a harder time getting a fair deal than the "average Joe".No offense meant Joe, but I'm quite sure than you can get better prices than most buyers. It's a matter of amount of purchased done and potential purchases. You're just buying more and better than most. So, I'm quite sure sellers treat you right. (At least that's what I would do if was a vintage guitar dealer)
Take a look. It already has a Bigsby type bridge. I've played a few early goldtops like that with Bigsby's with no problem. The guitar seems to be in pretty good shape. I don't think neck angle would prove to be an issue. I would dogbone it and if need be the bridge can be ground down.