Nostalgic Distortion
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This was my 2015 Double Cut L.P. P-90 Special, it was a beautiful guitar but it just didn't get the attention that it deserved. After dealing with my seemingly endless journey for a new amp that I could live with & spending a small fortune on Xmas I decided to sell it. The idea was to get my money back on the Special & fund something that I'd play a bit more, perhaps making a few bucks in the process?
I knew this time I didn't want to spend too much on the logo. I don't have anything against them, actually I absolutely love Gibson's and I own several of them but without a doubt these days a lot of what you are paying for is on the headstock? That said, the headstock is also why they hold their value so well & why they are so easy to move on the used market?
Anyway, the Special had been case candy for the past few months, only coming out to play periodically so I put it up on Reverb to see what would happen. After about a week of getting lowball offers someone paid my asking price which was actually about $75 more than I spent on it plus I'd tagged on a extra $39 for shipping!!!
Originally I wanted to try one of Fender's new 3/4 scale Duo Sonics or Mustangs! They are selling for about $500 new & that would have left me with almost $300 profit from the Gibson but while I was checking them out an opportunity arose!!!
A buddy of mine's wife had bought him a brand new Reverend Buckshot for Christmas from a local music store but there was a slight problem, he only plays dropped tuned chugga-chugga stuff!!! Giving him a guitar like this is akin to giving Brad Paisley a 8 String Ibanez! He can play it, he can even play it pretty well, but at the end of the day there's just TONS of better choices!!!
She doesn't know anything about guitars and the D-bag owner of the store just got a big Reverend shipment in which he then pushed on her like a bad of Crack! "It's a super versatile guitar and it's great for every style of music" he says!!! Sorta true I guess, as long as you don't play a lot of dropped tuned chugga-chugga stuff? LOL!!!
Anyway, after explaining the predicament to his wife we took a trip back to the store to see if he could get a refund or at the very least put the almost $800 she had spent toward something more befitting his personality. No such luck, the owner (we'll just call him D-bag) wouldn't give him anything over trade in value for it (about $400) because his wife bought it more than a month before Xmas. It didn't matter that she had no idea what she was doing, or that it never even left the case until he opened it on the 25th & all the tags were still on it, there was just no reasoning with the guy...
Eventually my friend told him where he could put his $400 & we left. On the way home he asked if I'd post it on Reverb for him, he didn't even care if $400 was all he got as long as it wasn't that guy who got the deal!!! I told him that I would list it for $650 & see what happens but he asked that I drop it down to $550 in an effort to make it move faster. When he said that I explained that after shipping and fees he would only end up with about $500 but he said that he was alright with that as long as it didn't take long.
So I really like the guitar and the wheels started turning in my head! I told him that if he was absolutely sure that he'd be alright with only $500 for the thing I'd just take it! It would save the me the hassle of having to post it for him & save him the hassle & expense of shipping it! Plus this way he would get his money right away and he could start looking for something different?
So that's what we did & now I've got a brand new Reverend Buckshot!!! I couldn't be more happy with the guitar and best of all I ended up with about $250 extra from the sale of my Gibson which has since been put to good use, battling the mountain of debt I made this Christmas!!!!
This was my 2015 Double Cut L.P. P-90 Special, it was a beautiful guitar but it just didn't get the attention that it deserved. After dealing with my seemingly endless journey for a new amp that I could live with & spending a small fortune on Xmas I decided to sell it. The idea was to get my money back on the Special & fund something that I'd play a bit more, perhaps making a few bucks in the process?
I knew this time I didn't want to spend too much on the logo. I don't have anything against them, actually I absolutely love Gibson's and I own several of them but without a doubt these days a lot of what you are paying for is on the headstock? That said, the headstock is also why they hold their value so well & why they are so easy to move on the used market?
Anyway, the Special had been case candy for the past few months, only coming out to play periodically so I put it up on Reverb to see what would happen. After about a week of getting lowball offers someone paid my asking price which was actually about $75 more than I spent on it plus I'd tagged on a extra $39 for shipping!!!
Originally I wanted to try one of Fender's new 3/4 scale Duo Sonics or Mustangs! They are selling for about $500 new & that would have left me with almost $300 profit from the Gibson but while I was checking them out an opportunity arose!!!
A buddy of mine's wife had bought him a brand new Reverend Buckshot for Christmas from a local music store but there was a slight problem, he only plays dropped tuned chugga-chugga stuff!!! Giving him a guitar like this is akin to giving Brad Paisley a 8 String Ibanez! He can play it, he can even play it pretty well, but at the end of the day there's just TONS of better choices!!!
She doesn't know anything about guitars and the D-bag owner of the store just got a big Reverend shipment in which he then pushed on her like a bad of Crack! "It's a super versatile guitar and it's great for every style of music" he says!!! Sorta true I guess, as long as you don't play a lot of dropped tuned chugga-chugga stuff? LOL!!!
Anyway, after explaining the predicament to his wife we took a trip back to the store to see if he could get a refund or at the very least put the almost $800 she had spent toward something more befitting his personality. No such luck, the owner (we'll just call him D-bag) wouldn't give him anything over trade in value for it (about $400) because his wife bought it more than a month before Xmas. It didn't matter that she had no idea what she was doing, or that it never even left the case until he opened it on the 25th & all the tags were still on it, there was just no reasoning with the guy...
Eventually my friend told him where he could put his $400 & we left. On the way home he asked if I'd post it on Reverb for him, he didn't even care if $400 was all he got as long as it wasn't that guy who got the deal!!! I told him that I would list it for $650 & see what happens but he asked that I drop it down to $550 in an effort to make it move faster. When he said that I explained that after shipping and fees he would only end up with about $500 but he said that he was alright with that as long as it didn't take long.
So I really like the guitar and the wheels started turning in my head! I told him that if he was absolutely sure that he'd be alright with only $500 for the thing I'd just take it! It would save the me the hassle of having to post it for him & save him the hassle & expense of shipping it! Plus this way he would get his money right away and he could start looking for something different?
So that's what we did & now I've got a brand new Reverend Buckshot!!! I couldn't be more happy with the guitar and best of all I ended up with about $250 extra from the sale of my Gibson which has since been put to good use, battling the mountain of debt I made this Christmas!!!!
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