Takamine Lawsuit Guild?
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learnintoplay62
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you gotta give them credit for trying. Nice site lots of great pics. I wonder how it sounds
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Do you think they meant to put $149.99 :?: :mrgreen:
krysh
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but for this price you'll get a nice real Guild F-47C...
All it takes is one I guess :shock: :!:
I bought a Tak/Guild clone a few years ago in a pawn shop. Jumbo body, no cutaway. Needed a new nut and saddle, which I installed myself. Nice guitar. Can't remember exact numbers but I think I paid a couple hundred and sold it for $300-$350. Something like that anyway.
I bought a Tak/Guild clone a few years ago in a pawn shop. Jumbo body, no cutaway. Needed a new nut and saddle, which I installed myself. Nice guitar. Can't remember exact numbers but I think I paid a couple hundred and sold it for $300-$350. Something like that anyway.
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I might go $200., but that's my cap! :wink:JerryR said:
**Just noticed that it comes with a Guild case so I might go for $300.
Joe
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The Takamine Lawsuit guitars are actually not bad guitars in context to the time in which they were designed and manufactured. Over the years I've played a number of them that were based on Guilds and Martins.
Valleyguy has a very nice copy of a vintage D 12-28. What's cool is that not only is the guitar an exact replica of a Martin down to the headstock shape, but they even used the same font/script spelling out "Takamine". But instead of "Est. 1833" per the original Nazareth, PA instrument, it reads "Est. 1968.." You have to admire that sense of humor, which at the time was limited to when they, the Japanese, tried to export Honda 600 micromini cars to the US. In a sea of 1972 Buicks, it was a not the marketing success they were looking for.
One can only imagine the dozens of wonderful (and now quite valuable) vintage D28s, F50s and a number of other models, that were systematically broken down to parts to be measured, weighed and copied.
We have to assume that the person trying to sell this particular guitar has been on some strong, physician prescribed anti-psychotic medication, and for reasons known only to them, has discontinued the regime. It's gotta be the only rationale for the asking price....right?......er...right?
David
Valleyguy has a very nice copy of a vintage D 12-28. What's cool is that not only is the guitar an exact replica of a Martin down to the headstock shape, but they even used the same font/script spelling out "Takamine". But instead of "Est. 1833" per the original Nazareth, PA instrument, it reads "Est. 1968.." You have to admire that sense of humor, which at the time was limited to when they, the Japanese, tried to export Honda 600 micromini cars to the US. In a sea of 1972 Buicks, it was a not the marketing success they were looking for.
One can only imagine the dozens of wonderful (and now quite valuable) vintage D28s, F50s and a number of other models, that were systematically broken down to parts to be measured, weighed and copied.
We have to assume that the person trying to sell this particular guitar has been on some strong, physician prescribed anti-psychotic medication, and for reasons known only to them, has discontinued the regime. It's gotta be the only rationale for the asking price....right?......er...right?
David
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Just supposin' I am a trial lawyer with a six or seven figure income. I got my start with litigation (and threats of the same) with counterfeits and knock-offs. A lawsuit guitar takes me back to my beginnings and I'm not going to blink at the price because I spend $1,500 taking friends and family out to dinner.chicagowineguy said:
(Of course, none of that is true about me, but if someone is collecting for emotional reasons, some objects are priceless and lucky is the dealer who finds one of those buyers).
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<Veer>I remember in 1970 or 1971 riding as passenger with a friend on his Honda 750 motorcycle. We saw this funny car parked, so we pulled up and stopped. It was a Honda Civic. We were amused because 1) the bike had a bigger engine and 2) sitting on the bike, we were looking down at the roof of the car.</Veer>Dadaist said:
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The Honda 600s were even smaller than the original Civics. As an owner, at the time, of a FIAT 600D I can remember the adventure and danger of driving a car that was half the size of a then-current Caddy on SoCal Freeways.
BTW, anyone remember how much those "Lawsuit" guitars sold for originally?
David
BTW, anyone remember how much those "Lawsuit" guitars sold for originally?
David
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fronobulax said:
You're basing this on the assumption that Trial/Copyright Attorneys are sentimental? Having worked with a number of them over the years, my guess is that most of them had their hearts surgically removed just after they took the Bar and replaced with a large, cold stone of approximately the same size and weight.......to not throw off their golf game.
It's just a theory.
David