This is insane....

[CBRStingray]

80 grand? It had better come with a record deal and case of skill of that much.

 

[steve21]

That looks like so cheesy. I could honestly see it be made in China with plastic parts and looking the same.

 

[gottawalk]

...and get this!

Average delivery is 32 day(s)

They darn well better be hand-carrying it in it's HARD SHELL CASE directly to my front door at that price!

 

[MJ5150]

They darn well better be hand-carrying it in it's HARD SHELL CASE directly to my front door at that price!

Nope. It's 32 days for them to get a hold of Esteban, and have one shipped to you.

BTW...howdy. I'll be in Woodinville on Tuesday of next week to do some phone system upgrades at Chateau Ste. Michelle. Did you know a big tobacco company owns the winery? I didn't until today.

-Mike

 

[Eric Cameron]

The last time I worked at GC I sold a 1928 Martin to the CEO of Audix mics. It went for $9500.

And I bet it sounds 1000 times better than that inlay scrap pile regect.

Dear lord, I think the Victorian era just called. They want their tacky back.

Rock on
Eric

 

[DigMe]

Dear lord, I think the Victorian era just called. They want their tacky back.

Rock on
Eric

David Spade just called. He wants his.. awww screwit.

brad cook

 

[Diggler]

It's not a typo.

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Nice pics of it if you follow the link.

 

[robb.]

i think it's gorgeous, if over the top. if you look at all three pictures, you realize that there's as more inlay on the back, and that the level of detail in the inlay evidenced on the headstock picture is incredible.

go to elderly instruments if you want to be shocked by the price of instruments. http://www.elderly.com

robb.

 

[43% burnt]

Its way too much for my taste as well, but can you imagine the precision and man hours required to create that. Its really a work of art...look at the detail in the inlay.
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[beyondhairy]

...and get this!



They darn well better be hand-carrying it in it's HARD SHELL CASE directly to my front door at that price!

youd think for that much money, youd want it delivered not by hand, but by miletary escort.. couple tans and helicopters, all driven by the terminator...

 

[Bassic83]

Don't want to spent 80K on your inlay? Try looking up "bruce wei art" on ebay. I see his $99 necks with at least that much inlay on it all the time.

 

[Giraffe]

I can't believe MF has sold 76 of those things, and all the buyers wrote reviews. I'd be curious what the reviews say, but I can't figure out how to view them.

I think companies like Martin make things like that to raise their profile more than anything. Looks like it is working. Doesn't have much to do with music, though. Rich people have money to burn, and they don't want to play with the same toys I do. No problem.

I still want to read the reviews. They can't all be buyers/owners. How do you access the reviews themselves?

 

[All_¥our_Bass]

Who in their right mind would pay that much for a guitar. For that price it better cook my breakfast, clean my toilets, and do my taxes while excreting gold nuggets from the sound hole.

I sure hope this becomes somebody's signature soon .

 

[Diggler]

I wish Kurt Cobain were alive now to play it once on stage.

 

[ADbassman]

I wish Kurt Cobain were alive now to play it once on stage.

Then promptly smash it after the set.

 

[P. Aaron]

To quote a friend: "For $80,000! It better have a basement, or it better have wings!"

 

[jokke_v]

I heard that it's made from some very rare type of wood that actually grows above the tree limit somewhere in the Himalayas. The wood is carefully shipped on the back of a virgin donkey to the Bering Strait. From there it goes with a canoo over to Alaska, before it's shipped down to the Martin factory in USA for the actual building.

 

[DigthemLows]

I played a G chord on a $25,000.00 one a NAMM.......just cause I guess................The money people spend on cars seems more of a rip off to me........60K for a hummer? Why not buy a used subaru and get a 25K guitar too!..........

 

[txbasschik]

I think the pattern is tacky and boring. If you're going to go all out with inlays, and least have a cool design.

Yeah...as if some mediocre Baroque composer hired oysters to throw up on it.

I can think of *many* better things to do with $80 grand. Like...buy a killer vintage Fender or Gibson, the best possible Ampeg rig, recording gear...and a boob job.

Hey, that guitar is frivolous! If I'm gonna be frivolous, I'm gonna look good while I'm at it! ;-)

Cherie

 

[Bassic83]

I can think of *many* better things to do with $80 grand. Like...buy a killer vintage Fender or Gibson, the best possible Ampeg rig, recording gear...and a boob job.

Hey, that guitar is frivolous! If I'm gonna be frivolous, I'm gonna look good while I'm at it! ;-)

Cherie

Leave it to Cherie to come up with an $80K boob job! LOL! For $80K, you too could look like Pamela Anderson......but with talent!