monkeydancer wrote:Seriously wtf. Don't know whether I'm more annoyed that they think people will pay for that, that people actually might, or that someone took apart a vintage guitar for some reason and is selling tiny parts of it for stupid prices.
people mos def will pay big prices for vintage parts.
the reason is: we musicians like to mess guitars up by modding them. it's always been that way. and because we musicians/guitarists are impatient, we fuck things up in the process. in the vintage guitar market 100& original is king. if i had a 56 LP JR with a aftermarket pickup cover and knobs from a telecaster, it's not worth as much as 100% orig. i would prolly make my money back and more by picking up that outrageously priced part. sooooooooo, if i were selling it....i would be wise to buy those original pieces to have the instrument be 100% . then i could make the most money possible. in that light it makes sense. of coarse it depends on the model guitar, part, and it's worth on the market.
also due to us guitarists fucking things up throughout history, there are lots of parts that were removed and now lay dormant in a parts tray. those parts are worth money so there ya go....
it's just the way it is in the vintage market. it's understandable in a collectors sense, but us players don't give a fuck about that stuff, so it seems silly until you go to sell an old piece of gear and notice how much money is left on the table.
being that is a modern thinking fuzzbox site, none of this will matter to most.
