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It will happen, the 6ós.etc are getting less relevant by the year,
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For the record, I get the appeal of vintage guitars.
For the record I can see both points of view because I'm in both camps.
Neither view is right or wrong it's just a view.
State it and let it go.....makes for a peaceful forum.
Worth the money...? Someone thought so. Worth the price of my house? is it fuck.
To my earlier point, they all sound the bloody same in my hands anyway. There are those that claim otherwise, fair play, I can't make such claims.
There was an experiment done at the LPF years ago, sound clips of 10 vintage Gibson guitars, various models and pickups combinations. The posed question was simply to identify what one was hearing...strange that such an apparently easy exercise as some claim, proved to be universally baffling for the assembled cognoscenti. Not one single person got anything like an impressive correct score, and those people are not without experience.
I like Gibson guitars, always have, always will. A vintage guitar is what it is, similarly a modern guitar is what it is...the over arching question must be an individual one...what is it you want your guitar to be?
Then spend your scratch, and get on with playing the bugger, and forget how inaccurate the tail-piece placement is, cos here's the news, it doesn't really make a wank of a difference, none of it!!
The same arguments apply to guitar building wood, i think it makes a difference some don't, I've been tapping rosewood fretboards today and there is a big difference between some, i have Brazilian, old cocobolo and old madagascan, all great wood but produce different sounds
(formerly customkits)
As a vintage owner I will reiterate my point: Vintage is pointless as a concept - it’s all about individual instruments new or old and how they inspire you to play.