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Changing "Short" to "Brief" is even worse for those of us who misread and think it's about stage attire.

As long as he isn't still alive, you got it right.

Congrats! That could also be described as Virginia Tech colors.

Quite a few hits on "rainsong" if you search the forum, back to 2008. Uniformly positive impressions, from what I saw.

Tom really is Terrific to deal with. Someone buy his Special - everybody needs one!

I was wondering about that, but I didn't know how to comment without somehow pooping on someone's FS post. You clearly state who made the guitar. No misrepresentation there. It's of interest to me because just today I received a gen-yew-wine Fender baritone conversion neck for a Tele body I've had lying around for quite some time, almost certainly a copy. So when I put them together, it's a lowdown partscaster. But the neck is Fender and it has a Fender serial number, which is all I think any all-Fender guitar has in terms of individual identity. I don't do much selling, and I don't expect I'll ever sell it online, so I don't know how a case like that would fly. Also just today I learned that Made In Mexico is now Made In Ensenada, although the serial number still begins with MX. Anyway, good luck with the sale and contending with the powers that be.

Hooray! Many, many thanks for all you do, Ted!

Is Sharpie permanent enough? There are pens that write with oil paint.

So.... thank you, Henry?

I'll wait for the none more blue one. It's bound to sound best.

Not just goot, that's great!

Hey Tom, I sent you an email. Hope you're well.

Any sort of selling discussion is valuable, I suppose, but what I was trying to fish for was any additional sources of current guitar valuation other than the Reverb and eBay Sold listing information that they provide to any yokel who can type on the internet. Any seller would do well to know what the market is saying about the price at which the things he wants to sell trade hands willingly. In my case, I've been much more of a buyer to this point at least somewhat because I find selling to be a chore that I choose - my choice - to avoid. I see a potential avenue that I want to explore. The local dealer is a guy, not a bricks and mortar store, so he doesn't have that overhead. He sells online and he travels to shows. I suppose he has to carry some inventory, but he frequently advertises that he is looking for guitars to buy, so I guess he isn't weighed down overmuch by his inventory. The game he talks is that he prices to sell; steady turnover is more important to that kind of business plan than occasional killings. I don't want to identify him here; I haven't yet met him, and just like I'm not privy to his pre-negotiation prep, he shouldn't be privy to mine. I'm not surprised there hasn't been any additional "You should look over there" response. As I said before, price discovery is always difficult. It's a privilege of being a market maker, but my interest in guitars isn't in the market, that's just how I procure them, and eventually will dispose of them. It's necessary that I spend some time to prepare to solicit offers, but I don't want to spend more time than that, and I accept the limitations that come with that attitude. Maybe someone here has a bone he'll throw me, maybe not. Maybe there are no good bones to throw. I just wanted to ask. Speaking of Guitar Center, I actually did that a couple of years ago. I took three in, I think, and accepted their offer for two of them. Then like the Boss said, "he was walking in, I was walking out" when a guy asked if I wanted to sell the third out on the sidewalk. He made me a better offer than GC and it was his.

It just reveals the demographic that uses it, which I think it's safe to say is a different demographic than the one that uses the HFC forums.

Headstock looks like it's glad to see you. Congrats on the find and enjoy!

He says 70% of the expected end sale price is what he offers.

Agreed, but my mexi strat is not going anywhere! It's one of the most resonant guitars I have. The local dealer guy does Reverb all day long in addition to traveling to guitar shows. He can find the buyer and deal with them. He has to have some room to make some money, and for the right amount I'm ok with not having to deal with selling and shipping to the public. I'm trying to determine what the end buyer price is likely to be so that I can determine whether the discount the dealer guy says he needs seems reasonable. Price discovery is always hard. Sellers often don't want you to know what they settled for, and sometimes buyers don't want you to know how much they actually shelled out. Pricing can vary from place to place. Lots of factors to consider, harder in my opinion than appraising real estate. ETA - The dealer guy will know much better than I will what pricing should be. That's the advantage of being in the market all day, every day. I have a pretty fair idea of how to price, if I only had the data - that's always the hard part. I'm trying to have an idea of what is reasonable before I contact him, rather than just let him tell me. I don't have any reason to think he's unscrupulous, but that business does attract the type: "That's too clean, people like to see some scratches on their guitars. And no one's ever heard of, what did you say, korina? Best I can do is $350."

Interesting! I got this: "A 2012 G&L ASAT Classic Bluesboy Korina Collection (USA-made) is generally worth between $1,300 and $1,600 in excellent to mint condition. These limited-run guitars from the 2012 Custom Creations series, featuring Korina bodies, hold higher value than standard used ASAT models. " Maybe part of the standard FU from the world that I have come to expect.

Thanks, I hadn't considered AI. I gave it a try and reinforced my perception of it, or at least the Google implementation of it, as a not-too-bright junior assistant. I don't doubt that the technology will improve over time, maybe even not that much time, but for now I feel like I have to check its work like I would with the assistant. I entered "what is 2012 g&l asat classic bluesboy korina worth" and it responded (anyone interested can cut and paste to see) and I give it credit for showing its work, to an extent, with links in blue boxes to the right of the response (at least on my screen) that I am assuming it used in formulating its response. There were two Reverb links, one from a 3 year old Sold listing and the other from a 10 year old Ended listing. There was a Sweetwater link that no longer displays the content (at least not to me). The other links were similarly not useful/relevant, IMO. I can (and do) skim ads and forum chatter to see what numbers are thrown around, but I don't have any confidence that the AI is culling the BS and reporting the key facts. It's not surprising, it's really just a big pile of "if this, then that" instructions that it can execute really fast. It needs the right "if this, then that" instructions to be useful, what they call training, and for now, and especially for things that aren't the mass market, I don't trust it. But it might turn up some links that I hadn't seen, so there's that.

First off, I know, my life is mostly a cliche - here I am recently retired and realizing I have a lot more guitars than I ever had a hope of needing or even using. It was fun having a pile of them, but the fun is over. So, I should get serious about shedding the excess. Cliche, cliche, cliche. The ones I am eying are not Hamers, so not planning to fool with FS threads here. There's a guitar dealer locally that I want to approach with the idea of taking the haircut but avoiding all the online sales to the public stuff that I see so much complaint about here and elsewhere, but I need to know the market first. To that end: I'm using the Sold listing filters for Reverb and eBay to get an idea of what similar-ish guitars have traded for recently, to the extent that they may show the actual sale price instead of the last advertised price before the ad was closed; I don't know what I don't know there. Way back before Reverb you could use some browser trickery to get eBay to reveal the winning bid price that they didn't want to show to casual lookie-loos, but I don't know how it is now. Is there any other online source I should be checking to try to discover sale prices? Or any other source these days? I did RTFF back for at least a couple of years and didn't see any direct discussion on price discovery, but I vacuumed up any mention of non-Hamer pricing (which is done directly here) that I found. Thanks for any help thrown my way.

"I'm not feeling too good myself." He was telling us all along, we just didn't listen.

I went to check my own red '82 Special in its cracked lacquer glory because I was a little suspicious of the logo placement on the headstock here, but mine is in pretty much the same place. Alignment varies across the years though, at least on my rack. My own's 2 5xxx serial number is in the usual position across the top of the backside of the headstock, though.

I never understood why an auction winner would be given an option to say "I was just foolin' about."

Or... Wife: You have to start selling some guitars. Husband: OK, I'll try.

Not what I was expecting to see with a name like "Viper". Interesting, thanks for posting. The more you know (the more you can forget eventually).