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Post subject: "Collecting" Custom Shop relics instead of vintage
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 8:16 am
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I reached a point a few years ago where I knew what I liked, and what I liked to play. At that point, I considered finding a nice player-grade slab-board strat, maybe as early a tele as I could afford, and perhaps a mid-sixties jazzy, and began looking. I crossed paths with a vintage-spec CS '64 relic strat, and ten CS guitars later, have not looked back. I do not miss the worn-out (but they're original!!!) pots and tuners, the warped pickguards, the shimmed and bowed necks with frets and truss rods at the end of their lifespans, and all the other peculiarities of vintage instruments. Not only that, but since most, but not all, of my relics are acquired secondhand, I get this fantasy-world experience of buying what feel like vintage instruments but almost always have near-perfect setups and are 100% playable and 100% responsive to adjustment, without worry.
However, the trip doesn't end there. There is a whole 'nother dimension to this as one seeks an ideal guitar, or runs across one in the local. These things are made by a finite number of human hands, patterns of artificially-induced wear become familiar, and the "originality" of them becomes important to other buyers-- for most, a floor follower sheet can still be obtained (Thanks, Fender!), and for many, signatures or initials in the neck pockets and especially the handwound pickups begin to develop a historical provenance of their own. It becomes a hobby.

Anyway, I'm trying to remain coherent here-- I'd like to hear from anybody here who considers CS instruments collectible in analogy to vintage collecting, and why or why not it is a rational long-term perspective.


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Post subject: Re: "Collecting" Custom Shop relics instead of vintage
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 10:23 am
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Bear in mind, all of the CS instruments will one day become "vintage"......

In fifty or sixty years.

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Post subject: Re: "Collecting" Custom Shop relics instead of vintage
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 11:24 am
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"Bear in mind, all of the CS instruments will one day become "vintage"......"

Precisely my point. Of the shrinking supply of "real" (i.e. pre-CBS) vintage, original examples become less available and less playable due to investment value. My tacit question is, "Are these the vintage guitars of the mid-21st century?" The implicit qualifier to this is "... versus all the other mass-produced stuff," which will by definition be "vintage" but perhaps not so sought after.


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Post subject: Re: "Collecting" Custom Shop relics instead of vintage
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 11:25 am
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Colectable ? Nobody know.


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Post subject: Re: "Collecting" Custom Shop relics instead of vintage
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:41 am
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Morgenholz wrote:
My tacit question is, "Are these the vintage guitars of the mid-21st century?" The implicit qualifier to this is "... versus all the other mass-produced stuff," which will by definition be "vintage" but perhaps not so sought after.


Given that the demand and the value is sure to increase with age, I'd say yes. But unless you happen to be a twenty-something right now, I'd doubt that you'll be around to reap any windfall profit on such an investment. Perhaps the kids or the grandkids......

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Post subject: Re: "Collecting" Custom Shop relics instead of vintage
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:06 am
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Retroverbial wrote:
Morgenholz wrote:
My tacit question is, "Are these the vintage guitars of the mid-21st century?" The implicit qualifier to this is "... versus all the other mass-produced stuff," which will by definition be "vintage" but perhaps not so sought after.


Given that the demand and the value is sure to increase with age, I'd say yes. But unless you happen to be a twenty-something right now, I'd doubt that you'll be around to reap any windfall profit on such an investment. Perhaps the kids or the grandkids......

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