Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Modern Beauty - '70s Tobacco Burst - Sweetwater Exclusive Solidbody Electric Guitar with Mahogany Body, Maple Top, 5-piece Flame Maple/Walnut Neck, Rosewood Fingerboard, and 2 Humbucking Pickups - '70s Tobacco Burst $.
The guy is asking a grand for it (firm he says) and it is a limited edition model (the one with the ebony fingerboard, headstock binding, and headstock crown inlay) - does that make it worth any more than a typical Standard? I've wanted a Les Paul for a long time now. A friend of mine was going to sell me an awesome LP Classic a few years ago but I didn't have the funds at the time and always regretted letting it go. I finally have the $$ to get a real Les Paul and want to get something good but don't want to pay the inflated prices of a new one either.
Good used ones don't come around very often in my town unless I go hunting at the local shops and even then the pricing is not that great. I was looking at the Traditionals before this - when is a good day to get one for $1500 or are you all just wheeling and dealing a lot with GC and Sam Ash? The guy is asking a grand for it (firm he says) and it is a limited edition model (the one with the ebony fingerboard, headstock binding, and headstock crown inlay) - does that make it worth any more than a typical Standard? I've wanted a Les Paul for a long time now. A friend of mine was going to sell me an awesome LP Classic a few years ago but I didn't have the funds at the time and always regretted letting it go. I finally have the $$ to get a real Les Paul and want to get something good but don't want to pay the inflated prices of a new one either.
Good used ones don't come around very often in my town unless I go hunting at the local shops and even then the pricing is not that great. I was looking at the Traditionals before this - when is a good day to get one for $1500 or are you all just wheeling and dealing a lot with GC and Sam Ash? To me, if you looking at a used guitar in the 800-1200 range, that last hundred dollars is entirely dependent upon how you bond with it and whether you find another in that range. A year later you might have paid $8 per month more than you could unload it for. And at that point it really wouldn't matter.
You couldn't rent it for that.Far more important is that you know it's a guitar you'll keep. The downside of a neck break to me isn't the effect on price, but how long it would take you to find a buyer. Lot's of newbies would be a skittish about that (real worry or not).btw - I'm far from an expert on the topic of neck breaks, it's just how I'd approach it.