Would you pay $5,000 for this?

[gripweed]

Found it on ebay. I don't care how collectable it is, or how great it sounds, I wouldn't touch it for five grand.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41429&item=7333325835&rd=1

 

[Bones]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

Never would, even if I wanted a vintage PAF humbucker, id get an antiquity.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

Found it on ebay. I don't care how collectable it is, or how great it sounds, I wouldn't touch it for five grand.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41429&item=7333325835&rd=1

For myslef, and or one of my guitars...NO! HELL NO!!! If I had a 59 Les Paul and needed a PAF to do a restoration, yes...

 

[XSSIVE]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

that would do me and my music style no good...so..nope i wouldn't.

-Mike

 

[flank]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

For myslef, and or one of my guitars...NO! HELL NO!!! If I had a 59 Les Paul and needed a PAF to do a restoration, yes...

but it will sound 50 times better than a Duncan Antiquity! :laugh2:

 

[Stringmachine]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

I'd love to have it, but not at that price! It's crazy!

 

[pac112]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

with that money you can buy a Gibson LP custom and slap in some Ants.

 

[fusion101]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

Holy **** Pac112 That Is Exactly Is What I Was Going To Say

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

For myslef, and or one of my guitars...NO! HELL NO!!! If I had a 59 Les Paul and needed a PAF to do a restoration, yes...

+1

What some obvoiusly keep forgetting on "collectors items" is that´s they´re also generally worth more with stock parts...

In other words, If you have a ´59 burst or a ´58 explorer that´s worth 250k with this pup and barely 100k without, you can ****ing bet your Life I´d buy it, I´d slit your postmans throat if I had to

with that money you can buy a Gibson LP custom and slap in some Ants.

Yes, except that a CS RI with antiquities will NEVER, EVER, if your life, my life, anyone´s crack dreams (or anywhere else for that matter) be a piece of guitar HISTORY worth 250k+ o the open market, 10k in 25 years is maybe realistic, and then the ´59 Burst will be easily fetching 500k-1M

 

[bryvincent]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

i think IIRC, double white PAFs are the rarest and hardest PAFs to find. thus more expensive.

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

i think IIRC, double white PAFs are the rarest and hardest PAFs to find. thus more expensive.

Yes, but at this price point and collecting level color no longer plays a notable role

 

[Davey]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

yea.. if it makes a 90k guitar go for 300k, hell, it's worth not 5k but 50k

 

[shredaholic]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

although i can only see that as being useful for a restoration, i can imagine some idiot paying 5k to put that in their run of the mill guitar, because they will think the tone really is incredibly better than anything on the market.

my solution - www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk

 

[usagi]

Re: Would you pay $5,000 for this?

I can't help but notice there are 0 bids thus far. "i can imagine some idiot paying 5k to put that in their run of the mill guitar". Maybe we could pool our beer cash buy it, and glue it in the sound hole of a Sears acoustic