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There are two prices - the buying price and the selling price. With few exceptions the selling price once left a shop is going to be atleast 25% below the buying price which is the tax element of the product. Yes in a booming market with demand there are people that will pay up when things start to stall the everything plunges because the free flow capital has been sucked out of people. Here is an example of image, Rolex are regarded as an exclusive brand made in small numbers with high end Swiss workers. Reality - Rolex make over a million watches a year every year - are they made by skilled Swiss workers ? Nope they are made by French workers who cross the border every day because the taxes in France are half those of Switzerland plus the cost of living is about half too. Now put that into the guitar market with Fender and Gibson, their production numbers are huge not the same level as the 50s 60s or even 70s or 80s. More guitars are made by one manufacturer in a week than were made in the whole of the 50s. Scarcity makes value - image makes value in bull markets - bear markets show the delusion that existed in the bull market.

Notice the view from stores is to buy new is always way overpriced now they are trying to get your used gear for even less. No wonder they are going out of business

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great video, got a MIM burst telecaster in 2004, went on tour with me four times from a hot van to cold room etc hundreds of times and it always held tune and intonation amazing. stopped playing for a while and it got re-fretted for the first time in 2020, still rocks today

No one needs 4 extra guitars, they need 5.

Has anybody every done a video on the difference between Fender super 250s and original 150s? What is the difference?

I bought a strat plus in 89' , still have it. Just bought a classic vibe Jaguar from Indonesia on sale. It was $200 less than the strat plus cost in 89'. $550 was alot of money back then.

If you’re doing anything besides chords and basic stuff, you’ll notice a big difference between MIM and USA

There are entire villages of luthiers in Mexico who have been making instruments for hundreds of years. That's why Fender is there.

Camrys, accords, and civics are the most "American" cars by percentage of parts and final assembly.

Been playing a cheap guitar for 6 months now and want to eventually get a better one. How would I capitalise on this?

Still with my first guitar bought 30 yeas ago.

Thanks for the info.

Brilliant. Just what I wanted as a beginner. Thanks.

On my homemade electric guitar I use my own custom set of Thomastik flatwounds that I customize myself I take the thin light strings from an Ernie Ball pack my custom string set is 7/38 Thomastik flatwounds with an 18 flatwound wound third My tone sounds the same is regular old heavy strings Play country rockabilly bluegrass and Blues

Sry, could not watch the whole video, got a bit dizzy because of the camera moving from left to right and back all the time ..

I have 2 player series telecasters. Love them for their sound and the fact I payed half what an American would cost. But I'll admit I have my eye on a thinline telecaster now and it will be American.

This is what happens when a guy talks for almost 13 minutes and says nothing. Thank you for waisting my time. 😡🖕

I heard a guy from Orange say I'm "when people hear power p distortion they may actually be rectifier distortion" I'm interested in faking power to amp distortion with a pedal in the loop of a ss amp I have maybe I'll just in put in one in in there id

Just bought a used Mexican Strat for $250. It was a little beat up, and filthy, but cleaned up great, plays and sounds awesome.

I have a few Japanese JV Strats from 1983 and a Paisley Telecaster JV also from 1983. Also a 1957 USA Fullerton reissue from 1982 and a 1962 reissue USA Fullerton from 1983. So, they are all valuable and lovely guitars. Today I bought a new Limited Edition Fiesta Red, roasted maple Player series Strat with Custom Shop Fat 50s pickups. I wanted a good Fender Strat with great pickups, tone control for the bridge pickup, 9.5" radius with modern jumbo frets. The roasted maple was another reason. I am very confident it will be a great guitar. Played the standard version Player in a shop years ago and was very, very impressed. I would have bought it, but another guy in the shop bought it while I was there and they didn't have another in Buttercream in stock at the time. I'm glad I held off all these years and got this wonderful Limited Edition Player. Despite having my lovely 'vintage' Fenders, I have and never will be a 'cork sniffer'. It's all a load of nonsense. As this gentleman says, it's either the right guitar for you or it isn't, notwithstanding your budget. The Player series has been hugely successful for Fender, at least the Strats have... Currently, I see no other Fender Strat available (other than the Player Strat) with a 9.5" radius with medium jumbos. Sadly Fender dropped the American Standard which I think was a backward move. Thanks for your rant, I totally agree.

great rant, well said

Thank you for this....this is a quality assessment. You made a lot of guitara

My 1996 Crimson or blood red Squire is beautiful! The paint is perfect and it feels and sounds great! I have a genuine 1968 Tele blonde made in Korea and i’m not sure if it’s a bootleg but it looks and sounds great and may be a plywood body. Regardless it is a real 1968 and plays beautifully. I have tons of guitars and are a professional metal musician so i haven’t played these in a while,pictures of them are on my IG and i have vids here that show them every now and then. Love meeting other guitar and drum collectors and i loved your video and content! Subbed! Ultra

Never sell to a shop unless you are ok with losing your money. They have to make money, and they have to sit on it. I've never not regretted selling a guitar or any piece of gear to a shop. I think most people need to consider the business owner. Good video! Thanks for the perspective.

When HB, Jet, Fazley and others offer strats or teles with roasted necks (worth $500+ elsewhere) for a retail price of $150+ you obviously do not need to consider the "main" brands. If you are a man and know how to use a file and a screwdriver you possess enough skill to do basic setup on a budget guitar. It would be crazy to think of it as an investment, when a quality instrument can be had for the price of a no frills family dinner. The big brands have themselves to blame for moving their production to China 30-40 yrs ago and letting people without respect for copyright to learn wood and guitar production. It would be obvious for a 7yr old to realize that a flood of copycats would follow especially with advent of CNC and other modern manufacturing technology. Thanks Gary for keeping us up to date.

The greed is off the charts... Customers need to boycott this BS and make them eat it... 💥

Guitars are made from 6 individual main parts that can all be swapped out. You have the body and neck, then you have the pickups then you have the tuners and bridge and then you have the electronics. Body, neck, pickups, electronics, tuners and bridge. You can swap any of those out and make a $70 guitar as good as a $7000 guitar. Mainly because the $7000 is sold for the brand name or the endorsements.

And you add to that the hugely improved quality of Indonesian and Chinese guitars, the drive to buy an American made guitar is diminished. I play an 80 Gibson ES-347/79 ES-335TD that I bought when they were sub 2000 (the latter was sub 1400). I wanted to get something that fit with those guitars but was a bit different. I did a bunch of research and there was so much information about how good the Yamaha Revstar Standard is. Why go out and buy someone's $1200 Epiphone off of Craigslist when I can get a used Revstar for less than 700 on Reverb or Ebay. I missed the covid era gear buy up because my rig hasn't changed in 8 years. But I have seen this great divide between overpriced name brands and underpriced well built Asian guitars.

Apropos of nothing, the Princeton 68 Custom is a really good electric piano amp! I just recorded a bunch of tracks with various pieces of gear, and though my Supro Black Magick was the amp to handle the guitars, the Princeton was delicious on Rhodes piano! You can dial up the reverb for roomy sustain, put a little trem on for kind of a Leslie-ish warble, and the darker character not only handles the bass frequencies great -- it tames some of the plinkier tone of a Rhodes' upper register. I like mine alot as a guitar amp, too... But as the secret weapon on a piano track, it's different gravy.

what about plastic knobs with rubber bands around them then a cable with 3-4 layers of heat shrink on it, that way you can save the original tone and sound but not get shocked, I plug all my gear into power converters so they get good celan consistent power so they last longer sound better, I shut off the power strip the power converter is plugged into that the power converter I plug amps into. YES I use TWO converters I plug the power converter onto a power conditioner, and that is plugged into a power strip that has a safety breaker all that in it, so my power is very celan and very consistent, if I had another I would use 3 if I had another, one to run two conditioners cleaners, one would run the effects, one would run the amps, I would run them off two totally different circuits o\in the house, 20 amp circuits, also I use better circuit breakers than what comes in most homes, I use a special power conditioner voltage REGULATOR style! then I use a plug in conditioner that will have like 4 outputs, 4 usb so forth all protected.. so that protector runs off a wiring in house that's using a conditioner surge protector circuit.. then a protector conditioner plugged into the wall that I run a power strip fault protector off of. then into that I plug i one power conditioner... I then do the same on a totally different breaker in the box, then I will run my effects off one, the amps off the other .. at times, now I just have everything off one protected/conditioned breaker, then a 4 way usb outlet conditioner filter fault protected box, then the one RR-15 off that, then another RR-15 into that.. effects and amps into t hat, so like quad conditioned .. if I run the two stereo big 100 watt stack then they use their own circuit, 2 RR-15's into a walled conditioner surge protector w/USB's as well, effects would run off a totally different circuit in the breaker box.. I'd like to get an industrial conditioner protector to run BEFORE the breaker box but no go in the place I am at... if I build that's how its going to be, and I will run 2 meters and boxes, one for the home one for the studio/gear so i can start off with good power right off the bat, if you do not think this matters you are wrong, it does, unless you have a conditioned power already, older homes, you want it, anywhere you have a lot of homes near each other, you want it, signals can bleed thru form a blender or whatever, clothes dryer.. filter it out, stabilize it and insure its protected for faults you are good to go, protect your investments and always run good celan filtered power thru them it pays off no jokes, tone alone its worth it to me... you can hear the difference specially at higher draws .. yessir, try it you never know?

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I have not noticed the Apocalypse as of yet. In 2019 I was getting used Mex Fenders Strats for $300 to 350 & Mex Fender Teles for $425 to 475, now folks want $500 for more for a Strat and 6 plus for Mex Teles. I found some great guitars and created some amazing fraken-strats but have not bought a used Fender for over year because folks are asking to much (in my eyes). I welcome the prices to fall and cant wait to get a plexi for a reasonable cost hahaha.

Craigslist is full of guitars but they aren't coming down in price; in fact, they're still ridiculously expensive. I've looked at Atlanta, Chicago, Memphis, Dallas, Denver and more and it sure looks as if guitars are in HUGE demand.

Great post, thanks

I have a very inexpensive short scale bass that I really like. I am an acoustic guitar / songwriter and like the short scale bass (LIttle Red - it's name) because it feels more like the length of an acoustic guitar to me. Sounds great. Play it through and Acoustic small amp. Like your videos a lot!

I'm waiting for gear prices to nosedive so I can buy just one more guitar.

Wow. Couldn’t be more inaccurate about the markets.

I'm definitely interested in one of these Tone Masters. Either this one or the Princeton. Too bad there's no FX loop. I'm hoping they'll make that update by the time I want to buy one.

The people following the lead of greedy elitist scumbags and have adopted the greed trait. It's disgusting. I am ashamed to be american.

I’ll take the Marshall stack for $1,000

I bought and sold a bunch of used guitars from 2005 to like 2014 andafe money typically then lost money during that time to current now have 2 crappy guitars so I'm waiting it out to buy a couple more better guitars. When prices officially go down I'll be on on that again.

Resale pirates

In most cases it comes down to people have no business sense, zero. They think everything brings retail/list and they probably paid over retail to begin with.

You speak a lot of sense. The instrument world has become so artificial. The first a snobby guitar player will do is look at the badge to see where your nice playing guitar comes from!

Why do the Daddario "12" string set only come with 8 strings?

I think the economy being bad is directly related to everyday cost. People don't eat jobs or the stock market. The issue is with food prices, gas and incidentals. Pre-lockdown coffee creamer was $4,99 its now $7.99. Chips are like $7 and the GD bag is smaller. Shake-n-Bake is $8 for damn bread crumbs and they don't give you the bags anymore. But yeah guitars. I always get the crap end of the stick because I am left handed. MAP leveled the playing field in list prices, but in vintage I always see these dealers that go "ultra rare" left haded *** and charge way more than the right handed equivalent. Guitars are even subject to steady price inflation. When the American Vintage II came out it was $2,099 now, a couple of years later, they are $2,299 people feel that crap. Anyhow, it sounds like the people coming at you to sell guitars sound like the buttheads from those Pawn Star episodes. You know how that goes. Most people always want what they buy to be at the cheapest price, and what they sell to be for a large profit. I've seen some amazing hillbilly crap on marketplace for astonishing prices.

Mexican made is fine. Usually the corners cut are in the hardware and some finishing touches like crowning the frets. By the time you replace the average tuning keys, sometimes bridge saddles, and perhaps a graphtec nut? Your initial $800 investment is closing in around 1k. I accept this because I want to add certain touches and since I'm not exactly devaluing the guitar (as an American made)? It doesn't bother me at all. Mainly because the body and neck aren't so different from American made. However, a Japanese Strat will get you instantly closer to an American (sometimes more) made than a typical Mexi. And, is why I prefer them (Japan) overall. (2 cents.)

Instead of pawning off a guitar how about actually taking time to learn it and you never know you might actually be good enough for gigs and you can make money on the side :)

Any opinions on how Quilter Aviator Cub compares to TMDR? I’m trying to decide.. thanks !