vintage market

[~K~]

this is where we are headed

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/...ra/P142831.asp

[Stinkbug]

Re: vintage market

Interesting article. It will be interesting to see how far Charvels go. They don't have the history of Les Pauls and Strats, but they are also very limited in number. Time will tell...

[hippietim]

Re: vintage market

for a market to take off like that you need the limited number AND high demand. and those with high demand need really big wallets. and j/c guitars don't have particularly high demand to begin with.

[~K~]

Re: vintage market

your 1/2 right Tim.. We saw in increased oversea interest in Charvel through the 90's. A lot of guitars got shipped to Japan because that's where the money to be made was.. I think as time increases and stock dwindles because people mass larger collections the vintage market will take off even higher.. I've never expected to see the prices that some charvels have commanded in recent years ..

I don't beleive it will equal the gibson/fender market but it will certainly carve it's own niche over time

[Accept2]

Re: vintage market

Fools..........

http://www.jcfonline.com/ubbthreads/...&page=1#644718

[txcharvel]

Re: vintage market

I have a good friend who collects vintage Fender gear, he calls it his retirement. His girlfriend tried to get him to sell a few pieces so they could build a house and he just about flipped [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

He has at least one of every amp model in black tolex (blackface) and brown tolex. He has many, many guitars. The centerpiece of his collection is a '63 strat in Fiesta Red. The only time he'll sell a piece is if he gets an identical piece in better condition or he might sell a double to buy something he doesn't have. Just about every piece in his collection is immaculate. I've seen him spend 6 or 7 hundred on a beater amp just to get an output transformer with a particular date.

He keeps very close tabs money wise on what he has spent. He has beaten the stock market easy over the past 10 years.

[pro-fusion]

Re: vintage market

When the baby boomers head off to the nursing homes and start dying off en masse, I have a feeling a lot of this collector crapola over 1950s electrics will start to wane. I mean, guitars that old definitely should be valuable, but I don't see anything intrinsically worth six figures about an old Les Paul, unless it was a rock-star owned museum piece or such.