So just seen a MIJ Charvel 750XL fetch $2000 on eBay. I gave under£300 for mine new in 1999, and there were about 3 for sale in Wakefield at that point and they'd all been hanging around since JHS lost Charvel Jackson distribution earlier in the 90s.
Of course I've probably wrecked the resale value on it by replacing the pickups, fitting a tremsetter, fitting an original floyd and gold hardware....
Altgough it wont have lost as much as this - an old college pal who picked up a 62 strat loaded with EMGs and a wilkinson trem for £500 with all the original bits in a bag with it!
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I swapped out the pickups for a Lollar Imperial and PRS Dragon and sold the old ones on. I swapped the 5-way rotary for a 3-way, replaced the sweet switch with a push-push tone knob and coil tap. However, somewhere along the line I also gave it a neck break but I'd devalued it long before that, but who cares? The guitar now works for me and IMHO, isn't that what it's all about?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
A friend of mine had a fender strat. Just a standard USA one, but it had a nitro finish. He couldn't sell it for the money he wanted, so he spent a grand total of ten minutes bashing it around, rubbing like crazy and generally being mean to it. He advertised it as a professional relic, and got more than his target.
Guitarists can be idiots. (I'm still regretting selling my beautiful bc rich Gunslinger, just to fund my car...)