If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

[jerryjg]

Say for the time you owned a 400.000 burst '59 Gibson Les paul Standard. What would you do with it? I know a guy has one. I said he shoiuld put it in a vault. Do they make vaults for that kind of stuff? In any event, its stupid as hell in the first place presuming to give advice to somebody at that level.

 

[beandip]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

if I had something worth that much, I'd be taking a trip to my local bank or armored car service and asking them if it was possible to place it in their vault for a certain amount each month. That, or it'd be hidden away in a climate controlled storage facility, where no one knew where it was but me, and I'd have that door BOLTED shut.

 

[Rich_S]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

I'd sell it, buy myself a couple or three nice off-the-rack players (A Standard, a Deluxe, and maybe a nice P-90 Special or SG or something) and put my kids through college on the rest.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

Some sort of climate controlled room, fully insured, and I'd play it from time to time. The LP Burst is my ultimate guitar, though. If I won the lotto, I'd buy one for sure. This is along the same lines as a vintage Ferarri or something, you need to treat it as both an investment AND the object it acutally is. I think not playing vintage guitars is ridiculous, but treating it any differently than you'd treat a case of cash or bonds is just as dumb (if not worse).

 

[kneadmomunny]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

I don't think there are guitar vaults, but a rifle safe could work quite well.

 

[benji657]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

keep it for a few years
decide if the tone is too good to sell or not
if it is amazing, i dont sell it
if its not that amazing, i sell it for more

 

[BlueSky]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

Sell it.

 

[Fender_Punk]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

I'd sell it, get some custom made guitars, build some, buy a bunch f production ones and get a nice ass amp, maybe a few effects too.

 

[tubeman87]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

I'd throw some Duncans in it!

 

[Fender_Punk]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

oh yeah University, umm, I'd get a band van, licence, couple really nice guitars, a nice amp, an effect or two and the rest for uni. Should cover all that, maybe even get me a custom made Fender with Duncans.

 

[Ayrton]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

Sell it...

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

I'd try to hold onto it for awhile to see if a 59 LP tops out on the market, then sell it at a time when it gets ridiculous money.

Suppose it's worth $200K now, for lack of the exact price, and imagine it rising to 1 million in year 2018.

 

[tonedeaf1]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

Sell it, buy a dozen custom shop guitars, invest the rest.

 

[millsart]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

I'd have a hard time believing a $300K guitar could play that much better than a $3k guitar, or lets even say a $30K guitar. Its definatly not going to play 10x better at any rate.

I think I for one would be pretty darn happy with a $290K down payment on a very nice home and a $10K custom shop guitar.

A 59 burst is a fine guitar I'm sure, but its $300K because its so rare, not because it plays/sounds that much better. Give it to someone who can't play and they'll still sound like crap on it. So point being, anything that adds to the cost without adding value in terms of sound/playability is a waste of money in my book.

 

[DazH]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

Sell it & spend it on my family, it's only an instrument, the money could do allot nicer things.

 

[Mr Wolf]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

I would treat it as an investment. I would look after it, keep it locked away safe for a number of years, and then sell it when i want some money from it.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

I'd treat it like any of the others. Play it, and if I didn't like it, sell it when I could get the right price to buy something else. Glass-casing guitars is lame.

If I won multi-millions in the lottery, I'd go buy one of Hendrix's Strats to play at the local blues jams.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

I would sell it and buy a house . . . and a new Les Paul. There is no way that an instrument is worth more than a house . . .

 

[JumpMarine]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

Sell to the morons who are willing to shell out that kind of scratch while you can.

 

[jerryjg]

Re: If You Owned A 300.000 Guitar?

Jergoffs! Ya Cant sell it! lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!