mmmguitar wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 11:24 pm As a side note: Does anyone else remember ten or so years ago, when you could find used Emerald Green Deluxes online for $1,000 or less all day long; because they were the least desirable color?

REGRET

Probably my favorite color now.

Exchange rate bait scam is one I hadn't considered before.

What is the fretting surface like? Does it buzz or choke out anywhere? What about string alignment, neck relief, action, string gauge, spring gauge? I'd be looking especially close at those things.

The big tax issue is the new 1099-K reporting requirements for online marketplaces since they'll report unadjusted gross sales as income at a threshold of $600. Reverb is working fairly hard to reverse this which tells you everything you need to know in terms of how great they think it's gonna be fo...

When people post a dusty black deluxe it's hard to tell if they're getting the color name correct or just pointing out they couldn't be bothered to wipe the guitar down before taking photos.

Jeff Beck's Fly sold for about $4,000 USD hammer price, but that's before the 26%+ in fees they charge.

What's going on with your guitar? The listing is still up but has been altered: This used Parker Fly Custom Shop Lime Green 1 of 5 Electric Guitar has been tested and is fully functional in good overall condition. This model's at this price due to a few factors - no case hard, knobs are not original...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=L97nhE0LhJY https://auctions.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk/catalogue/lot/938f388a2848634f231f8d9bc08ace41/63b778f7668dabe928d3800924a99077/the-guitar-auction-three-day-sale-including-guitars-lot-423/ There's also another one not owned by Jeff Beck. https://au...

Have we seen this one before? It looks like an 08 with the rare custom pickguard option.

https://reverb.com/item/66289188-parker ... blue-burst

Was this still in the moratorium period when you bought it hence needing the runner for pickup? If so I'm kind of curious about how that works. I would have assumed they put restrictions on the pick-up person.

I eventually got to the point where I won't buy a guitar that weighs over 6 lbs barring some remarkable circumstances.

It reminds me of this Tversky quote about his research on the "hot hand" in basketball: I've been in 1000 arguments over this topic. I've won them all, and I've convinced no one. It sort of feels that way most of the time, but the bigger point is that the people who can figure it out are b...

If you hear differences between two solid body electric guitars, it's almost certainly not attributable to the body wood. There are many reasons they may sound different but the type of wood used for the body isn't one of them. It's just one of those things that we all believed for a really long tim...

I actually talked to Ed Roman for quite a while over the phone about 20 years ago seeking parts for my Steinberger. The most charitable way I can say it is that he was a serial exaggerator / fabricator and not a person I'd ever do business with. He died in 2011 but there's no chance I'd give any bus...

The original Artist was great. How many solid body electric guitars with mag pickups have ever had a sitka body?

The butterscotch Fly Artist is beautiful and the one I always wanted. It's such a clean look that flatters the lines of the guitar, and I don't think $5k is too out of line for a rare instrument of that quality if everything checks out. The other listings are laugh tracks.

Being as the Reverb seller account of the "world's biggest Parker collector" has been either suspended or disabled since June, I've been curious to see if the decreased speculator market attention on Reverb will result in asking prices drifting downward (the same old FB group members who ...

Yeah for live playing I take my best players (Fly & Hohner G3T) and fake it into whatever land I need to be in, but I don't even play out that much anymore other than occasional jams. For home use and recording, I'm in the philosophical camp that different guitars have different strengths, weakn...

I track a lot of non-guitar collectibles markets and none of this behavior surprises me. I do think the Fed handing out essentially free money for a decade fueled a ton of this, but even with rate hikes and asset prices coming back to reality, my feeling is that we've attained a new level of online ...

Oh, one other point about Parker cleans: I basically never use the raw piezo sound for anything. I play a fair amount of real acoustic guitar and can't handle piezo quack. Where I have found it to be more useful than the mags is driving certain IRs, especially acoustic instruments that have similar ...