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Hello,
This is my first post to the forum so here goes!
I'm a semipro jazz guitarist from England and I've recently found for sale in a local guitar shop (or store for my American cousins!) a 1965 X-175 in a dark sunburst in what I would call players grade condition. I say players grade because although cosmetically its in good shape with a little bit of finish checking and the odd ding here and there, at some point in it's life the pickups have been replaced with humbuckers of unknown make.
The reason I'm enquiring is that the shop is asking about £1200 which works out to $1850 but I think I can get about 10-15% off the price. Do you think this is a fair price considering it's not 100% original? Understandably prices for vintage American guitars are cheaper in the US generally as they're less scarce but importing stuff is expensive with the 20% sales tax that we have here.
Another thing I'm curious about is whether this was definitely fitted with the Franz P90s as I know Guild stopped fitting them to their X-175 model and started fitting although I don't know when.
Anyway any help or advice offered would be gratefully received!
This is my first post to the forum so here goes!
I'm a semipro jazz guitarist from England and I've recently found for sale in a local guitar shop (or store for my American cousins!) a 1965 X-175 in a dark sunburst in what I would call players grade condition. I say players grade because although cosmetically its in good shape with a little bit of finish checking and the odd ding here and there, at some point in it's life the pickups have been replaced with humbuckers of unknown make.
The reason I'm enquiring is that the shop is asking about £1200 which works out to $1850 but I think I can get about 10-15% off the price. Do you think this is a fair price considering it's not 100% original? Understandably prices for vintage American guitars are cheaper in the US generally as they're less scarce but importing stuff is expensive with the 20% sales tax that we have here.
Another thing I'm curious about is whether this was definitely fitted with the Franz P90s as I know Guild stopped fitting them to their X-175 model and started fitting although I don't know when.
Anyway any help or advice offered would be gratefully received!
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