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Topic: Fender D8s Increasing in Value ? |
Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 20 Jul 2008 11:45 am |
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| If the parts need rechrome and the body needs a re-finish, it's a lot of work, and more spent to make it a good guitar. |
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Ali Lexa
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2008 12:07 pm Value is in the eye of the player?
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Hi, for what it's worth -
I spent $600 on the late 50's D-8 that I'm restoring.
When I went to get it there was no amp to play it through, and there were no strings on the top neck. It turned out that someone had tryed to rewire the whole thing and made a complete wreck of the insides. The insides were all lined with aluminum foil! The top neck was non-functional. The double button neck selector had some problems too.
I took it to Performance Guitar in North Hollywood, because the lead tech there used to work in the old Fender factory through the 60's - 70's and knows these guitars. He completely rewired it and now it sounds good. He also had to rebuild one of the pickups. That ran me about $500.
Unfortunately one of the knobs isn't original, and I've only got one bridge cover. And there are some holes in the tuning pan through the bottom on the top neck, where I assume someone tryed to jury rig some pedals or something(?) at some point.
Now I'm getting replacement legs which will run about $120
The finish is not in great shape but it's good enough.
So by the time it's all done I'll have at least over $1200 into it.
But I've put so much time into saving this guitar, that maybe it's worth more to me than if I'd just dropped $1200 on a clean one(?) Who knows. Would I do it again. Not sure...
I sure do love the sound of it though.
Regarding that red one on eBay. That's the danger of auctions! People get caught up in winning so much that they pay more than something is worth.
Bill's (in the post below) looks great. Here's a partial picture of the one I'm working on -
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Ali Lexa
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Bill Terry
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Bastrop, TX
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Posted 20 Jul 2008 7:03 pm
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I got the hots for a Stringmaster a little over a year ago and started watching for the proverbial 'deal'. At that point in time, there weren't a lot around, and I found the one pictured below here locally at Austin Vintage Guitars. I haggled with my bud Steve, the owner, for a couple of weeks and we finally ended up with a trade deal that left me with about $1200 in the guitar.
It's a '72, judging by dates on some of the pots, a bit newer than what I wanted, but the upside is it's pretty much pristine except for the two small holes on the right where apparently a name plate or something was attached, and the missing switch knob. At the time I thought I was probably in for too much $$, but it sounds great, it was local, no risk as with an internet buy w/shipping hassles etc. I came to realize that you just don't go out and buy one of these things, they don't make them anymore. 
I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get my money out of it at some point if I want to, they don't seem to be getting any cheaper. But I plan on hanging on to it. Sometimes if you want something, you just have to pay the going rate..
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2008 7:07 pm
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| What is NOT going up in value that was made by Fender in the 50s??? |
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