Hold on Tight -2 of the most killer guitars I have ever seen

[tjon]

Needs some EMG's

 

[The Hoff]

I must agree with you Brad. Those might well be the nicest guitars I've ever seen! No way I'd ever be able to own one-I would love to just play one of these things!

 

[Anonymous]

Weird, all the pics I've seen of real 59's had tops that were much more subtle.

except for the really good ones like this...Vic is the King of the Burst.

Awesome, those are probably well north of $200K.

I'd say well north of $500k

More like it for SURE! Those are amazing!

Steve

 

[King Guitar]

I bet knowing how much Vic pays for epic burts these two cost in the neighborhood of $800K each. That would be my guess.

 

[glpg80]

If I had the dough I'd buy both, and drill em up and had a FLoyds plopped in them then give them to Kage and Ralph and post it all over the TGP and watch em squirm.

dont forget the Boston and Journey to go along with it, only fitting

On another note i would rather have our supported forum member make a custom model for the 8k he charges - and get just as good of quality if not better and have fun playing it for what it was meant to be. The fact these have historical significance is great, but guitar vs guitar it would come down to sound and playability, anything overhead of that in cost is simply dogma attached to them for their rarity

 

[Ventura]

Yep. Providing all original and no changes to anything, in and around $700K to $800K but finding the Buyer is what is needed here. John MacEnroe might be the one who would by these - albeit I think he's a lefty. I know he paid $400K for an original '57. 1959 is 'the' year for Lesters though...so hard to say. In the right market, $800K plus.

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

Mo

 

[King Guitar]

Dude dropped $135K last night on Champagne in Chicago.

Plenty of people with enough money for 100 lifetimes who will buy these. A couple of them are members here but keep a low profile...but I know who they are...

 

[snakeman1986]

Dude dropped $135K last night on Champagne in Chicago.

Plenty of people with enough money for 100 lifetimes who will buy these. A couple of them are members here but keep a low profile...but I know who they are...

that's ridiculous! Gratuity was over $22000!

 

[King Guitar]

that's ridiculous! Gratuity was over $22000!

just sayin what seems expensive to us might not be so much to some others...its all relative.

 

[fek]

Who in the hell is this guy?

 

[70strathead]

If I had the dough I'd buy both, and drill em up and had a FLoyds plopped in them then give them to Kage and Ralph and post it all over the TGP and watch em squirm.

 

[rupe]

He owns a little music store in the suburbs of Pittsburgh...I used to live about 3 from it. Cool guy...he was one of the early collectors of bursts and has a lot of them.

 

[King Guitar]

Vic was eating Macaroni and cheese and buying every burst he could back when they were like $3500 bucks. Him, Uncle Lou, Gil, Ronnie Prowler, Gruhn and Norm and recently Elliot have pretty much dominated the burst market for a number of years.

 

[jcj]

Holy shit

 

[daver101]

Damn, those are just BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

 

[mikehickey]

Vic was eating Macaroni and cheese and buying every burst he could back when they were like $3500 bucks. Him, Uncle Lou, Gil, Ronnie Prowler, Gruhn and Norm and recently Elliot have pretty much dominated the burst market for a number of years.

Those guys always have great bursts. Lou is a riot, he schooled me on a lot of Burst stuff. and Gruhn wanted to show me his reptiles more than the Bursts in his store

Someday I will have one but for now I hang around people with them....

 

[Digital Jams]

So what is the pedigree for 59s?

Famous recordings?

Ground breaking design?

Usually with collectors there is something historical regarding the item, like a Ford GT being the most famous american race car ever created hence big bucks.

So if Jimmy Page used one to record Stairway it would be worth $2,000,000?

I will never get collectors, they just hide great instruments from players that would use them.

 

[mikehickey]

dave those are 3 killers right there! nice.

nothing like a real Burst! I have been lucky to check out a lot of them and look inside etc.

The last Burst in my post is the one I am after, and it really likes being stuck into Marsha's Brown Eye

Not all collectors hide them... many people play them... and some collectors let professionals borrow them to play live and record.
Bonamassa has two that he plays live, a Texas based collector loans his to Trucks and Haynes to use, Gibbons regularly got down with his for years, Page plays his always. Gary Moore always played one live since the lizzy days.

The only downside of Bursts is a lot of the guys in that circle think you have to play Peter Green licks or you are not worthy, I have heard muttering at a guitar show when I was ripping on one with high gain...they can kiss the hairy borwn eye!

They really are a special instrument.

 

[70strathead]

So what is the pedigree for 59s?

Famous recordings?

Ground breaking design?

Usually with collectors there is something historical regarding the item, like a Ford GT being the most famous american race car ever created hence big bucks.

So if Jimmy Page used one to record Stairway it would be worth $2,000,000?

I will never get collectors, they just hide great instruments from players that would use them.

jimmy played a tele on stairway and most of the early zep stuff. i never understood collectors either, but hey what ever floats thier boat. The Les Paul is a fine instrument, even though I prefer Fender's... hopefully the wood is legal.

 

[Tone Zone]

Dude dropped $135K last night on Champagne in Chicago.

Plenty of people with enough money for 100 lifetimes who will buy these. A couple of them are members here but keep a low profile...but I know who they are...

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