Spare Change ???

[Robert1950]

Anyone got some spare change? Maybe we can go halvsies on this guitar:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/1959-GIBSON-LES-PAUL-STANDARD-ORIGINAL-BURST-FLAMETOP_W0QQitemZ200195816672QQihZ010QQcategoryZ1 18992QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Or maybe we can wait for the recession to kick in and get for a few less pennies.

[zontar]

I find it odd they would sell it on eBay though.

And that's a crazy amount to spend on a guitar, no matter what it sounds or looks like.

[jane]

That's a little over the top... even for an original 1959. However, I find it very odd that there's no pictures of the headstock... nothing above the 8th fret or so.

But at the current price, I could maybe afford one of the strings. Gee... a house, car, furniture, food for a year and enough to buy a really really nice rig (or 2) or a 1959 Gibson?

[greco]

I can put in $37.92 if you want to share the cost. I might be able to add a bit more (if needed), but I'll need a few more days to round up the extra cash.

Anybody else interested?

Does the case cost extra?

Dave

[dwagar]

hey, the Canadian dollar is starting to rally.

perhaps in a couple weeks...

nah

[elindso]

http://www.solidbodyguitar.com/ccburse.htm

A much better deal. only $185

We buy guitars is a real NYC store for the vintage folks with deep pockets.

[elindso]

We could share it I'll put in $25,000 but I have to keepit at my house for the first 40 years.

[hollowbody]

Hahahahahaha...that's pretty much all i can say about that...I think my house is worth that much, but I'd have to sell it myself, cuz if I paid a real estate agent, I wouldn't have enough left over. Can you live in one of those suckers???

[greco]

hey, the Canadian dollar is starting to rally.


Good thinking...we are getting closer and closer to closing this deal now......:food-smiley-004:

[greco]

We could share it I'll put in $25,000 but I have to keepit at my house for the first 40 years.

At that rate, my $37.92 will but me about 6.372 minutes after 40 years is up!!

Sh*t...I just realized that I likely won't be on the planet in 40 years....sorry guys..I withdraw my share/offer.

Good luck with the bidding !!

Dave

[elindso]

I'll only be 94 but I'm ok with that.

[shoretyus]

I find it odd they would sell it on eBay though.



Wonder what the Ebay fees would be on that ?

[bobb]

Every once in a while Bernie Marsden's 59 shows up on gbase.com for $495,000. Currently the most expensive on there is this 59 (http://www.gbase.com/Stores/Gear/GearDetails.aspx?Item=1722711) for a paltry $319,000.

And to think that my guitar teacher in 1965 offered to sell me his 59 for $350.

[Duster]

Far be it from me to tell them how to run their business, but if I was selling a $450,000 guitar, I'd probably find a better place to take pictures of it for the listing, rather than just lying on a couch.

But that's just me, maybe I'm too particular about how I treat my $450,000 instruments.

--- D

[ssdeluxe]

I'll only take this one if he's got a pair, I only by 59 pauls in pair's.................................:eek::eek:: eek: he...he...heeee



its funny, I played a few real 59's, and the hype and mystique clouds the basic truth, that its just a gtr, any gtr made by gibson in 59-65 is going to be a pretty darn good gtr (I'm generalizing hugely here), might be a couple duffers ,.................. nice wood in those days, nice gtrs today too, but you have to look a bit harder. (imho of course.)


the REAL ones I played were really nice guitars, and one of them was nothing @ all special, but, overall, nothing to make me go GA..GA over for sure.

play whatcha got and love it!...and leave those to the uber-collectors.!!

[Mooh]

I suppose if I was fabulously rich with no charitable leanings I might like to own it, but I'm not. That kind of cash would buy me another home and guitars enough to fill it, including a Les Paul or two. Might even pay for the kids' education too.

Peace, Mooh.

[thechamp96@hotmail.c]

Undoutedly a gorgeous guitar, but with a ridiculous price tag.

You could save a buck or two by picking up a 59 reissue: http://www.privatereserveguitars.com/Gibson-Custom-Shop-1959-Les-Paul-Reissue-Quilt-Top-Electric-Guitar-515899-i1385446.guitars

:zzz:

[david henman]

...i was given one of those by a music store owner in saint john in 1968. it was a more reddish sunburst, and made in '60 or '61, i think.

i sold it for $250 in '69.

:mad:

-dh

[elindso]

It had to be a 1960 they stopped making them after that till 68.

They were too heavy and expenxsive at $300 and change.

A web friend of mine has a 58, he got in the 60's for $150 or "some such B.S." because he wanted a 335 they had and would only sell it to him if he took the 58 L.P.

I've been told that it is a very nice guitar to play.

[Robert1950]

Here are the other two axes that are over 100 Gs fleeceBay:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/1954-Fender-Stratocaster-100-Original_W0QQitemZ230215300408QQihZ013QQcategoryZ1 18987QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Priceless-1953-Gibson-ES-Thin-Body-Semi-Hollow_W0QQitemZ220197000528QQihZ012QQcategoryZ380 85QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[zontar]

Give me $2800, and I'd take this one-
silverburst (http://www.killervintage.com/Gibson/Pages/silverBlp.html#2)

I loved the silverbursts when they came out--and I remember being warned how they'd yellow with age, and not look too good, but I think this looks great!
I find myself wishing even more I'd had the money to buy one when it came out (I believe it was around $1000-1200)