Found my birthyear guitar......

GavRichList

Destroyer? - I just met her.

mart

That's a beautiful guitar! But ... $300 shipping, and, ooh, about $1500 for import taxes? Ouch.

1nten5e

yep, it's the shipping and taxes that are putting me off, plus the fact that I can't try it out

GavRichList

$1500 import? That's 20%? Blimey. I'd be stuck with this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141158565654

Or the hilarious looking Fender Lead.

ICBM

mart said:

That's a beautiful guitar! But ... $300 shipping, and, ooh, about $1500 for import taxes? Ouch.

That's way too much. Does that also mean it's $7500? (Import tax at 20%?) If so, WAY too much.

Nice guitar, but they're not worth that.

IanSavage

meltedbuzzbox said:

I wouldn't want much from 81 - 89

@GavHaus, im not far behind you mate (83) I have my yob guitar (purchased by accident) an Ibanez Destroyer. 

I'm 1980 - there's some very nice Japanese stuff out there from the 80s, a couple on this very forum.

meltedbuzzbox

IanSavage said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

I wouldn't want much from 81 - 89

@GavHaus, im not far behind you mate (83) I have my yob guitar (purchased by accident) an Ibanez Destroyer. 

I'm 1980 - there's some very nice Japanese stuff out there from the 80s, a couple on this very forum.

that why I said much and not anything. 

The MIJ stuff is good but it generally needs an electrics and pickup swap out. 

Construction wise its great

1nten5e

ICBM said:

mart said:

That's a beautiful guitar! But ... $300 shipping, and, ooh, about $1500 for import taxes? Ouch.

That's way too much. Does that also mean it's $7500? (Import tax at 20%?) If so, WAY too much.

Nice guitar, but they're not worth that.

actual price is £3k....I'm thinking thats ok, but the rest of it puts it a bit too much really

mart

ICBM said:

mart said:

That's a beautiful guitar! But ... $300 shipping, and, ooh, about $1500 for import taxes? Ouch.

That's way too much. Does that also mean it's $7500? (Import tax at 20%?) If so, WAY too much.

Nice guitar, but they're not worth that.

Maybe I slightly overestimated it; I was reckoning at 25%, on a BIN of $6400.

GavRichList

Depends how much you want LPB. You can get an original '64 Jag from about $2500. Now that is where the import still looks tasty to me against the Uk prices.

ROOG

meltedbuzzbox said:

I wouldn't want much from 81 - 89

@GavHaus, im not far behind you mate (83) I have my yob guitar (purchased by accident) an Ibanez Destroyer. 

Entertained by comments complaining about 80's birth year guitars, just be content with being young (er). Besides some of us are not only older but don't have a chance of buying their birth year guitars!  love the guitar BTW

1nten5e

Yeah, I really dont want a sunburst, I've got 2 sunburst Strats and a sb Tele already

GavRichList

Ah, see I love em on jags, and at below £2k even with all the customs, postage bla bla, it'll be the way I go when I can finally buy one.

kelvinburn

racefaceec90;244841" said:

were there any good guitars in 75?

Im also searching for my 40th next year. Lets trade notes.

To the OP. That is an achingly cool guitar. Personally I would already be showing it as a NGD

Alnico

I wish I could even think of a guitar from 1972 I would like.....................I can't !

There are no Fenders from that era I would touch, much less a Gibson. I'm no expert on 70's guitars either so aside from those two well known makes, i'm just a bit lost on this subject. A Year of Birth guitar is a really nice idea but it would still have to be something I actually want.

That '64 in the OP is gorgeous - if you can afford to do it, just do it.

Bucket

racefaceec90 said:

were there any good guitars in 75?

Les Paul Custom

Gibson L6-S or L6 Deluxe (fuck-ugly but very nice, never played one I didn't like)

Flying V

Strat

Tele Custom/Deluxe

You name it really! Rich pickings for the 70s, and usually not too expensive (by vintage standards I hasten to add). They have a bad rep a lot of the time, but there's still an awful lot of bloody nice guitars from that period out there.

Would that I had so much choice for 1995. Mid-90s seems to be a bit shit really.

guitarcookie1

I want a 1973 Les Paul Deluxe that some numpty hasn't routed for full-sized humbuckers.

usedtobe

nice guitar!