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No - Don't buy one!
I was just interested.
I can't wait to get the final bits of my funds together to go get myself a vintage single cut.
Precisely what my wife said about me last night... then she added: 'Of course, I mean the sort of ornament a relative gives you as a Christmas gift - so you just can't throw it away... even though you really want to.'
Lovely looking guitar, by the way.
On another note (d'oh) is my bakelite Boosey & Hawkes clarinet bought new in approx 1965 worth anything?
1980 Tokai LS-80
Boosey & Hawkes bakelite clarinets were made for students (a bit like the Les Paul Juniors). Main difference is that they're not very good quality. However they do hold their pitch well. I reckon £80 tops... Bakelite is an early plastic, basically a phenol resin and probably not the best material for clarinets.
Maybe not today, or tomorrow, but for the rest of your life...
Yeah, maybe for longer! Harsh but fair!
Given the wear on the end of the headstock and that the head has never been broken, I'd guess it's a naturally strong one. I had a '57 like that - it looked like the head had been used to dig roads with, but it was never broken. On some of them the wood grain follows the curve of the headstock quite well, and the mid-50s ones are also often quite 'flared' behind the nut rather than 'scooped' as some of the later ones are - have a look at the shape from the side and the grain if you can see it. That can make them much stronger than you would expect and less of a worry for gigging.
Classical musicians gig with violins worth tens of times as much as that, anyway.
I wouldn't fly with it though, that is a step too far.
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