"Why did you do it? Why did you do this thing to me?"

[Zork]

But he runs this ebay shop for years and years. I can't remember ebay without the famous music-outlet-shop. Everytime you see overpriced junk you can be sure it's this guy again. People seem to buy the shit though...

[higgsblossom]

+1

* old mahogany = TONE

Without pickups, bridge and strings, there's only one "tone" from that guitar: clonk.

Back in the old days, something like that would've been a "Look what i've found in the trash! Maybe I can make it work again!"-project. Now it's sold as a vintage guitar.

[will]

Now that you can search sold listings on reverb, gems like this fella can be found. Sold 4 years ago for $850.

"Cut to fit in Baldwin case."

[higgsblossom]

That's the best reason (Why?) and also the worst thing in this thread.

[Mechanical Birds]

But he runs this ebay shop for years and years. I can't remember ebay without the famous music-outlet-shop. Everytime you see overpriced junk you can be sure it's this guy again. People seem to buy the shit though...

There’s a reverb seller called “The Bonfires Vintage” that posts everything they have for like, significantly more than the most expensive example of said thing. Every once in a while they’ll get a Sunn head and strip off the badge and knobs and try to sell the knobs for like $35 each and the badge for $75 or something insane and then post the amp for like, $1,500 or something. Just the most offensive shit, like the easier it became to find disirable stuff like this the more ridiculous assholes got with pricing, when you’d think it would drive things down, right? If I wanted a Jazzmaster in like 1996 yeah I could probably get one for less than a grand, but that also meant having to find one first which at the time meant guitar magazine ads from shops all over the country and being a hawk at pawn shops wherever you went or whatever. Now I can pretty much find any part/complete guitar from mostly any year of production in about 10 seconds. Either I’m a horrible idiot in economics or this is all super fucking dumb and wrong.

Would again like to just say how much I really fucking hate that reverb shop too. Whoever runs it is a horrible person.

[Mechanical Birds]

Now that you can search sold listings on reverb, gems like this fella can be found. Sold 4 years ago for $850.

"Cut to fit in Baldwin case."

I’ve made a bunch of these posts now but come the fuck on there’s no justifying this ever what the fuck

[mgeek]

I scrolled up that from the bottom thinking 'there's nothing wrong with this...'

[flysky578]

Now that you can search sold listings on reverb, gems like this fella can be found. Sold 4 years ago for $850.

"Cut to fit in Baldwin case."

I literally can feel this cut in my body/heart

[higgsblossom]

This kind of belongs here, because why is this in a museum?

It‘s the „first guitar that Kurt Cobain smashed on stage“.

[ThePearDream]

This kind of belongs here, because why is this in a museum?

It‘s the „first guitar that Kurt Cobain smashed on stage“.

will can fix it.

[PJazzmaster]

will can fix it.

[cestlamort]

The post-war American dream was to have a cool guitar, a cool car, and a house with a swimming pool.
Here's 2 out of 3:



For sale. (had a Valentine's discount to 2600 so probably room for an offer).

[Zork]

This guitar is so unique and looks so damn cool. It really has the potential to become an iconic indie rock legend in the hands of the right player.

[higgsblossom]

will can fix it.

He just needs another one.
I find it hilarious that the rebellion of Grunge can be musealized like that. I guess people stare at it, thinking “Those were the days *sigh*”. I never understood the whole guitar smashing thing. Especially since it’s not easy to damage a Fender guitar in a way like Kurt.

[mcatano]

Now that you can search sold listings on reverb, gems like this fella can be found. Sold 4 years ago for $850.

"Cut to fit in Baldwin case."

Someone got an incredible deal on that, holy cripes.