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Topic: R Q Jones....What is it Worth? |
Dennis Graves
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Maryville, Tennessee
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Posted 28 Sep 2007 7:27 pm |
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Thinking about selling my RQ Jones resophonic guitar. It's a mid-seventies model with walnut wood. It's in good shape. Gene Wooten was the last one to do any minor work on it..replaced the spider a couple of years before he died.
I can have photos in a day or two, if needed.
Just wondering if anyone had a good "guess" of its worth.
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Michael Hardee
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Posted 28 Sep 2007 9:18 pm
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A lot depends on condition, provenance, and tone. One sold on Reso-Nation for about $2000 last year. As always, demand determines the selling price.
Any collector or player looking for one would be scanning the ads here and at Reso-Nation regularly. |
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 29 Sep 2007 7:28 am
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Some still look at the Jones guitars as the Holy Grail, others not so much.
I think Michael's post is a good one to follow. Even though there are a number of us members on the Forum that are big dobro guys, you want to get this info over to: www.reso-nation.org
There are some guys there that have pretty extensive dobro collections, and they may need a Jones to make it complete (yeah, right...for sufferers of GAS, there is no such thing as a "complete" collection  ).
If you are not a member there, you can sign up for free. There are some hardcore dobro types on the 'nation that don't frequent the Forum.
I think the deal on R.Q. Jones guitars, over the years, is that there is a lot of variance in sound and quality. Probably even more so than say, an acoustic like a Martin D-28 from certain "eras." I think this is why they don't automatically command a relatively high price in the used market, like say a Scheerhorn that is in good condition.
Consistency in build and sound quality has become something for folks to look at now that the resonator guitar industry has reached a certain level of maturity, after a bunch of other luthiers jumped into the game going back 20-25 years or so, and after the dominance by the Dobro company started waning.
Jerry Douglas has become a Beard artist, and I know that one of the things he loves about the guitars is that they are very consistent from one to the next.
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Alan Rudd
From:
Ardmore, Oklahoma
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Posted 30 Sep 2007 4:45 am
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| I met Rudy Jones when he started making these. That was the late 70's. I'm not sure how long before that he made them. Great guitars, though. |
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