Great Q&A. Can wholeheartedly agree with your comments about the ES225, very underrated and sustains really well and those P90s have got such a sweet warm tone. Also a vintage ES175 with replaced pickups isn't entirely a bad thing either, not a bad entry point into that model.
Hi Mike. Do you know what happened to Rex Brayley's burst? He was the guitar player in "Love Affair". Their first hit was "Everlasting Love", and they had a number of others, in England/Europe. He had it in the first video they did in, I think, late '67. It's also in their later vids. A bit before your time, I suspect-but it's a burst so I won't be surprised if you know something. I'm the guy that turned up Robbie's cherry '60 LP Standard in the early '70's, so I've been around for a while. Thanks
@@ATBGuitars Thanks for the response. It's always fun to see them turn up in unexpected places in old videos. I paid $300 and $275 for the first 2 I found. Ah, the good old days. Cheers!
Thanks Mike. I love my 175D 54 reissue. Limited to 50 pieces, it’s just the ultimate hollow bodied archtop for my tax bracket. Question for Q&A: when it comes to pricing vintage Juniors, how do you go about doing that? Can you also speak to how a neck and headstock repair impacts pricing on the used market, in terms of loss of value, and how this impacts pricing? Thank you
Id take slight issue with the hollow body answer. Ive had a 50s Gibson es225. Great guitars. Ive also recently had a Gibson es175. Okay guitars. Pretty good. However I much prefer my early 60s Gretsch 6117 and 6118. Less than half the price and sounds fantastic
Is it true that the 1958-60 'bursts were made from mahogany which was over 150 years old and can you confirm if the early SGs & Juniors were also constructed from the same old-growth timber?
