Swearing is for people that have limited ways of punctuating their expressions. I tend to simply laugh when I’m in pain.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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There is definitely an art to swearing. These spawn of cretins today just don't care.
I don't have nearly as much gear as you apparently do, but my plan is to donate all of it to a local music school.
As to that old bass of yours, I really am not into old Fender basses, but if you pay the shipping I will take good care of it.
TIA.
Yeah....In my day we had to take a three year swearing apprenticeship and we had to prove that we cared by reciting the complete works of Bernard Manning before so much as a "bugger" was allowed to pass our lips....
Good times......
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I have a ‘63 Fender Stratocaster that I bought in the early 70’s. I played the life out of it for many years. The metal parts had a lot of rust when I got it. Over time, I changed the tuners and string tree, had a refret done, changed the nut, the bridge, the jack plate, the knobs, jack, and the pots. I also refinished it with nitro. The case fell apart so that was replaced. The pickups and pick guard are all that’s original. If I tucked it away and never changed anything, it might be worth a lot more. But who knew that the 80’s would bring value just for what it is.
I just don ’t care about these things. I do care about how it performs. When I bought it, it was an old and used $250 instrument. They were all priced low. In the mid 60’s, a friend bought a 50’s PBass for $25, it was hanging on a gas station wall. There wasn’t such a thing as a precious vintage instrument.
Times change.
As it should be. We didn't care about resale value back in the day. We cared about having a tool that worked for the job we had to do.
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Flipping instruments seemed to become a "Thing" by the late 80s. Probably earlier.
Japanese collectors drove up the prices in the 80’s. They would pay anything for american made instruments. I know a guy that flew to Japan once a month selling vintage Fender and Gibson instruments. He did very very well.
The big companies got hip to the higher prices and eventually started selling new instruments that were better than the old ones. The bottom fell out of the vintage market. It still hasn’t recovered from what it once was although the demand still lingers on a smaller scale. Prices have been going up in recent years.
That's how we all did it back in the day. What we bought and used back then were just old, used instruments, not family airlumes®. That '67 4005WB I got in '73 was my tool for gigging, and it saw everything from sleazy college dive bars (is there any other kind?
) to big festival stages. I changed out some parts and drilled a few extra holes in it, over the years So what? I still made 45 times more than I paid for it when I sold it a few years ago.A friend of mine had a 1961 Strat that he did some, um, mods to it back in the late '70s (those were interesting times for us
). One, er, mod he did was to make it fretless by pretty much yanking the frets out with dikes (diagonal cutters, not what you were really thinking 
). Then a year, or so, later, he "re-fretted" it by himself (the hammer marks all over that BRW fingerboard showed it, too 
). Some time after that, he had the Strat all taken apart, sitting in its HSC, presumably to refinish it some day, when it got stolen while in college (I don't recall what degree the guitar was going for), probably all for the best, really.The oldest guitar I've owned was my 1961 Gretsch 6117 Double Anniversary. Very nice instrument, but it is now in the hands of a far more accomplish guitarist than I.
Gone, but not forgotten.
That's how we all did it back in the day. What we bought and used back then were just old, used instruments, not family airlumes®. That '67 4005WB I got in '73 was my tool for gigging, and it saw everything from sleazy college dive bars (is there any other kind?
A friend of mine had a 1961 Strat that he did some, um, mods to it back in the late '70s (those were interesting times for us
The oldest guitar I've owned was my 1961 Gretsch 6117 Double Anniversary. Very nice instrument, but it is now in the hands of a far more accomplish guitarist than I.
Gone, but not forgotten.
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There was such a things as a musicians network. Whenever I got a better instrument, I’d pass on the older one to someone that needed it. Folks tended to do that to help friends out. Sometimes it was traded. In the later end of the 60’s my flat selling rate was typically $25 with the case, $100 for an amp. Amps were deemed much more valuable, bands were getting louder.
^^^Cricky!
I wish I’d been a part of Your network!
I wish I’d been a part of Your network!
Great Gawd Awmighty, That is a beautiful Ric.
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^^^Get this one over to the ‘What did you learn (today)?’ thread!
That's how we all did it back in the day. What we bought and used back then were just old, used instruments, not family airlumes®. That '67 4005WB I got in '73 was my tool for gigging, and it saw everything from sleazy college dive bars (is there any other kind?
A friend of mine had a 1961 Strat that he did some, um, mods to it back in the late '70s (those were interesting times for us
The oldest guitar I've owned was my 1961 Gretsch 6117 Double Anniversary. Very nice instrument, but it is now in the hands of a far more accomplish guitarist than I.
Gone, but not forgotten.
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I can't tell you how many Fender ashtrays I saw being used as literal ashtrays back in the 70's. Every studio you walked into had an old, beat up P or J propped against a wall. There was no such thing as a "guitar stand" back then. You'd bring your own axe and if they didn't like the sound they'd hand you that Fender. It was a thing you used to do a job. No more, no less.
I've downsized a number of times over the last few years. Whatever money I raise either goes back into the hobby, or benefits family.
Feels good to get out from under the clutter, plus I firmly believe that all music gear (I'm not just talking about instruments) is basically playable art. It only fulfills it's purpose when put into use. There's something wrong about the stuff sitting around gathering dust, while other musicians struggle to find the equipment they need at affordable prices.
PA equipment especially doesn't make to hang onto, unless you have regular use for it. Technology is marching on so rapidly, that it's important to sell the stuff before it becomes too hard to sell...
My youngest son is a Remembrance Day baby, born on November 11th.
I've been careful to make sure he understands the double significance of his birthdate.
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