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Post subject: Re: Do you own....a Personal Anniversary Guitar?
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 3:00 am
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born in '54..... those guitars probably sell for the same price I bought my house for 30 years ago!


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Post subject: Re: Do you own....a Personal Anniversary Guitar?
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 5:43 am
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I had a 1962 Strat at one time, so I guess that qualifies for the birthyear...sure would like to have that one back. As for starting playing, 1970 is going to be a tuff one to find for a decent price.

So can we count a 62 Reissue?

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Post subject: Re: Do you own....a Personal Anniversary Guitar?
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 10:19 am
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Didn't want to hijack the other thread so I thought I'd start this one based on this comment: I think everyone should try and own a guitar from either their birth year or when they started.


Interesting concept ... I never thought about it, but I actually do own a guitar made the same year I started playing. I started playing when I was 12 in 1979. Over the decades, it has been very heavily played, but I always took good care of it -- it is an exceptionally good playing guitar. This guitar is a 1979 Gibson SG Standard that I acquired in 1981 (or so). It came to me already modified with the lyre plate, Grover tuners, brass & chrome pup switch and plate, an original Dimarzio SD pup in the bridge, and a 1967 SG case. The original owner who sold it to me was the founder of Schrapnel Records (Mike Varney) who needed money to start his record company (he is also the founder of Magna Carta Records and Blues Bureau Records). In the early 1990's, I replaced the pups with Gibson ceramic 496R & 500T, as well as changing out one of the tone knobs for a phase-out switch (I still have everything I took out, and I added no holes). The bridge and tail piece were also changed out due to heavy wear, and I still have those, too (the frets are still original, though). It is a tremendous player, with Mike Varney asking me numerous times to sell it back to him. He still has the 1967 SG Standard that originally came in the case that I have for mine.

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Post subject: Re: Do you own....a Personal Anniversary Guitar?
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 10:59 am
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well, since I guess it was my original thread that started this whole thing...LOL

My 1988 Strat. The year I started playing! July 2, 1988 I got my first strat, 6 months later I was playing my first gig with my buddies at the school Gym! ;-)

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Post subject: Re: Do you own....a Personal Anniversary Guitar?
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 11:38 am
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> Do you own....a Personal Anniversary Guitar?

Sadly, no. I have a couple before and a bunch after my birth year, but none from my birth year.

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Post subject: Re: Do you own....a Personal Anniversary Guitar?
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 5:33 pm
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Actually since I really started getting into playing 2 years ago, I suppose my 2012 FSR Strat counts that I'm currently converting into a David Gilmour replica black Strat. But I wouldn't mind a 65 reissue 8)

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Post subject: Re: Do you own....a Personal Anniversary Guitar?
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 7:24 pm
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I was born in 1967, wasn't the greatest year for Stratocasters or Fender products in general.

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Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 12:01 am
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Interesting concept !! :D

But, seeing as how a '54 Strat (or a '54 Tele for that matter) would have me eating Cat Food for 36+ mos., I just can't justify it... best I can do is my FSR Ltd. Ed. Am. Vtg. '57 Strat (wherever it may be) ;)

That said, I am on the prowl for a '54 Pre-A Porsche 356... much sounder investment that !!

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Post subject: Re: Do you own....a Personal Anniversary Guitar?
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 2:44 am
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Not a birth date anniversary, but the 50th anniversary of my first Strat. I bought a new Strat in 1962, custom colour, Fiesta Red. And, as so often happens, it got sold in the late '60s because I needed cash to help fund my new life in London! Of course, back then, they weren't worth anything and I got peanuts.
Fast forward to 2011, and I, now retired, placed an order with a dealer for a Custom Shop Strat to replicate the one I sold. In 2012, my new '62 Strat arrived. Just one day after my birthday, and 50 years after my first in '62! :D

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Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 3:02 am
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Butterscotch wrote:
Not a birth date anniversary, but the 50th anniversary of my first Strat. I bought a new Strat in 1962, custom colour, Fiesta Red. And, as so often happens, it got sold in the late '60s because I needed cash to help fund my new life in London! Of course, back then, they weren't worth anything and I got peanuts.
Fast forward to 2011, and I, now retired, placed an order with a dealer for a Custom Shop Strat to replicate the one I sold. In 2012, my new '62 Strat arrived. Just one day after my birthday, and 50 years after my first in '62! :D

Good story and beautiful guitar. How often we hear "...no one knew then how much they'd be worth..." :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Do you own....a Personal Anniversary Guitar?
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 11:00 pm
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I think the possibility of me owning a 1960 Fender would require me selling a kidney.....not going to happen.
Or a 1968 for that matter........

Q: Do reissues qualify here?

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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 7:23 am
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I think the possibility of me owning a 1960 Fender would require me selling a kidney.....not going to happen.
Or a 1968 for that matter........

Q: Do reissues qualify here?


Yah, but you don't get much for a reissue kidney.

I have a pin-up decal from the year I was born.


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Post subject: Re: Do you own....a Personal Anniversary Guitar?
Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 7:53 am
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Sadly, no "anniversary" guitars for me yet.

Though, the blue Stratocaster is named after a girl. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Do you own....a Personal Anniversary Guitar?
Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 2:40 pm
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Sort of, kinda....... can't afford a 62 birth year, don't really want a 1980, I think I first owned a guitar back in 1980? :shock:

So i bought a 82 standard new , the one with the small headstock and X1 bridge pup when i first had some money of my own but it got sold!

The nearest thing to an anniversary guitar now is my 87 strat bought in memory of the old man who passed away in 1987. Its my keeper.

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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 8:54 pm
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I bought a good Fender each year one of my children were born:

My first daughter was born in 2006, so I got an American Standard Strat with a black body and maple fingerboard - my favourite strat player is David Gilmour, so I hope to change the white pickguard to black one of these days...:). I was listening to a lot of Floyd in the months leading up to her birth also.

My son was born in 2008, and I bought an absolutely perfect American Standard Jazz Bass in 3-tone sunburst with a rosewood board (just like Aston "Family Man" Barrett's). That was the year Fender changed the American Standard line, and this one blew me away. Jamaican music is a common sound around our house.

My third and last child was born in 2010, the 50th Anniversary of the Fender Jazz Bass, so understandably I bought the Candy Apple Red Anniversary Jazz Bass that year.

When my kids get old enough, I plan to pass these instruments on to them. I hope they appreciate them as much as I do... :)

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