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HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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Didn't know they were getting collectable. Still, I suppose given time everything becomes collectable.
One of mine was my first ever electric bought new in 1988 I think for £99
Collectible though? I wouldn’t say so.
remember seeing one in my local store and thinking shame it’s not Birdseye nobody wanted flame neck back in those days
to my ears it's as good as a criticism, on the basis that if you are digging so low for adjectives that you hit 'collectible', you have clearly passed by (for what reason?) so many other terms that signify a more meaningful quality.
(ps. not a criticism of the guitar in this instance, which looks fine and very playable).
I had read different opinions on the internet, some saying they are excellent and others that they are just firewood material. Well... I've tweaked the truss rod and adjusted the action at both the nut and bridge since I posted and it's definitely not firewood material, in fact it feels brill to me. Happy days: )
The later ones (Chinese?) with the same headstock shape but different logo are not as good in my experience.
and the last batch from Korea with the different headstock shape are pretty terrible.
Worth a bit more now (or would be if I hadn't wrecked the crap out of it)
All it takes is for one forum post to say ''yes, this squire from such and such a factory and such and such a year is the best guitar in the world ever'' , a Google search researching an EBay listing finds it, the EBay listing turns into a bidding frenzy based on this forum members opinion of said guitar, then all of a sudden more guitars of the same turn up on EBay with asking prices based on the original sale with sales blurb based on the original forum post and bingo, a legend is born!
Nothing is said about the cheap hardware, thin laminate/plywood bodies and cheap ceramic pick ups. For some reason early 90's very late 80's Squier Japanese guitars are as well thought of as the earlier ones.
I remember those days when Squier guitars may they be from Korea or Japan, pre or post late 80's were thought of as being rubbish, but now they arnt? I wonder if the internet has had something to do with that?
The way I see it is, if something isnt all that great, then you read all over the net that its brilliant, then you buy one before trying one, you may well kid your self into thinking its fantastic.
I don't fully know the answer to this but when you say that, "Nothing is said about the cheap hardware, thin laminate/plywood bodies and cheap ceramic pick ups." to me that is quite a generic statement and won't necessarily be true of all. I think what the internet has done for me is given me greater confidence (through tutorials/youtube vids/etc) to 1) take a gamble and 2) to have a go at doing my own setups (i.e. not having to spend again). The guitar in question I believe has never had a setup, I suspect if the the internet was around (as it is now) in the 80's I wouldn't have been paying £70 for it.: )
My experience is that I have bought a guitar which for the present I'm delighted with, I've improved it, it has cost me next to nothing (to be honest I'd have been happy if I'd paid double... probably a bit more).
I'm happy; )