Fender Strat 1954 Serial # 100 - the first
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Fender Strat 1954 Serial # 100 - the first
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Re: Fender Strat 1954 Serial # 100 - the first
Wonder if that's the same guitar in the photo, my 10yr old ri looks more vintage. Well done preserving that one.
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Re: Fender Strat 1954 Serial # 100 - the first
Needs more relicing.
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If it were on the LPF everyone would be yelling "fake". Some of those expert vintage guys are fucktards.
This is quite a find.
A couple srping to mind. The old guitar teacher in NY who had an attic with a number of old Gibsons in it, including a '59.
The as-new '58 burst with amp found about 2 years ago...still had the shipping box n all. Amazing.
They are still out there. I'd love to play in that arena but the stress would probably kill me.....oh, and I'd need to add 3 zero's to my income.
This is quite a find.
A couple srping to mind. The old guitar teacher in NY who had an attic with a number of old Gibsons in it, including a '59.
The as-new '58 burst with amp found about 2 years ago...still had the shipping box n all. Amazing.
They are still out there. I'd love to play in that arena but the stress would probably kill me.....oh, and I'd need to add 3 zero's to my income.
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Re: Fender Strat 1954 Serial # 100 - the first
Yeah, imagine how much it would be worth if it looked old too!slowfingers wrote:Needs more relicing.
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Re: Fender Strat 1954 Serial # 100 - the first
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I hear what you're saying but I wonder if you aren't already in a better place. At this level, you're not dealing with guitars; they are historical artifacts. You can't change them in any way, not even to make them play better; which you can't do anyway because you will diminish their value.FunkUncle wrote: They are still out there. I'd love to play in that arena but the stress would probably kill me.....oh, and I'd need to add 3 zero's to my income.
On the other hand, you take great old guitars that have fallen on hard times, restore them to health and set them to work making music which is their real purpose. I find that a far more noble and worthy activity than getting all Nigel Tuffnel over a Strat that was bought by a nonentity and then ignored for most of its life
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Thanks - and true.
Maybe a butchered '58 would do me....
Maybe a butchered '58 would do me....
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Re: Fender Strat 1954 Serial # 100 - the first
slowfingers wrote:I hear what you're saying but I wonder if you aren't already in a better place. At this level, you're not dealing with guitars; they are historical artifacts. You can't change them in any way, not even to make them play better; which you can't do anyway because you will diminish their value.FunkUncle wrote: They are still out there. I'd love to play in that arena but the stress would probably kill me.....oh, and I'd need to add 3 zero's to my income.
On the other hand, you take great old guitars that have fallen on hard times, restore them to health and set them to work making music which is their real purpose. I find that a far more noble and worthy activity than getting all Nigel Tuffnel over a Strat that was bought by a nonentity and then ignored for most of its life
Bit like owning a Ferrari 250GT. You'd be too scared to drive it. Nice to look at though.
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Oh yeah, now we're talking. 250GT...I have a coffee table book just on that model.
I'd still like to play this Strat tho...and compare with a modern day one.
I'd still like to play this Strat tho...and compare with a modern day one.
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Got no argument with that!FunkUncle wrote: I'd still like to play this Strat tho...and compare with a modern day one.
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