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Old 07-13-2019, 04:38 PM
leew3 leew3 is offline
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I'm with the 'it depends' camp but wanted to share a positive story in this vein.

The amazing guy who works on my guitars was brought a very old Telecaster by a local retired music teacher. She had bought it at the beginning of her career in the 50's and it was one of those mythical 'it's been laying under the bed for decades' kind of finds.

She planned to give it to her son in law who was learning to play but wanted it checked out first. Our luthier told her it was very collectible and if she wanted to sell it he knew a collector who would be interested. Cut to the chase, he got her $20K for the guitar from a collector and drove it to the buyer. He did ask for a 10% 'finders fee' for his labors but still, he surely did the right thing! Now she can buy her son in law anything he wants....well except that prewar D18.....
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