How much are they worth???

[Bucks Owin]

I know this has been brought up before.....but it never ceases to amaze me!
I love Tele's....... but some folks seem to have more money than sense...or am I missing something here (besides 5 or 10 grand to spend to be a gear corksniffer)?

You and me both Bro! The price of some of these "Custom, new/vintage, tribute, repo" guitars with "artificial wear and tear" blows me away! Kinda silly in fact! "Instant collector's items" as it were....

Was it Barnum who said "There's one born every minute..." ?!?

Dennis

BTW, I think it's sad that kids these days won't find "used" Fender guitars at realistic prices hanging in music stores and pawnshops like 30 or 40 years ago. Nowadays, people who don't even play grab them up for "$peculation" purposes....Luckily, the Squires are decent alternatives if not as "cool".....(Altho' even the Squires from the 80's are "collector guitars" now : )

[just strum]

I never came across a close up of EVH's Frankenstein until I was paging through the April issue of Guitar Player tonight.

Again, why would anyone pay the money they are asking for that replica???????????

If you knew nothing about EVH and nothing about his guitar what attraction would there be? Let's say you stopped at a garage sale and a guitar sat at the sale that looked like that or any conceivable color with a price tag of say $30, I might consider it for the neck.

To repeat the often written statement here - I just don't get it.

[Plank_Spanker]

I never came across a close up of EVH's Frankenstein until I was paging through the April issue of Guitar Player tonight.

Again, why would anyone pay the money they are asking for that replica???????????

If you knew nothing about EVH and nothing about his guitar what attraction would there be? Let's say you stopped at a garage sale and a guitar sat at the sale that looked like that or any conceivable color with a price tag of say $30, I might consider it for the neck.

To repeat the often written statement here - I just don't get it.

While that guitar is playable, it's not meant to be played. It's designed to either go into a vault, or hang from a wall in a glass case. All of these big $$$$$ "relic'ed" (I HATE that term!) pieces are aimed squarely at the collectors.

I'll make my own relics the old school way - lots of years, lots of gigs, and lots of notes.

[ZMAN]

My guitar tech, was so excited to show me his new custom shop Strat. It looked very similar to the Jeff Beck Tele. It was almost the same color with a mint guard and everything was of course aged and it had about 50% of it's paint scratched off. He even had one of the tone pots missing! just a hole there. It had an old baseball bat neck and he was so proud of it. It cost him about 3000 bucks and was a team built.
Had it been built by a single tech it was double that. I just could not understand? On all the lastest DVDs I see John Mayer playing a beat up old Strat as well. Funny though I saw Jeff Beck on the Crossroads DVD playing a pristine Strat!