Better Hurry

[kizanski]

Nash Strat on ebaY with a crazy low Buy it Now price.

[bubs_42]

Wow.

[kizanski]

Wow.

Yeah, I'm trying to resist these no-brainers lately.

Trying to take a page out of your book.

If I bought all I saw and really wanted in the past few weeks, I would have drowned in guitar cases by now.

There are currently 3 or 4 guitars that are killing me that I'm not buying.

[bubs_42]

Here ya, the next one will be better, then the next and the next. That Monaco III almost broke me in more than one way.

[benum47]

what was the buy it now price? It's gone as people started bidding

[zenmindbeginner]

After building my own strat, I can honestly say that a strat is a strat.

A maple neck, ash body, hardware + pickups and some sort of finish is really rather cut and dry.

The relicing craze is ridiculous and that Nash has a really over the top and quite ugly relicing job.

I wouldn't pay over $500 for that POS.

[hamerhead]

After building my own strat, I can honestly say that a strat is a strat.

A maple neck, ash body, hardware + pickups and some sort of finish is really rather cut and dry.

The relicing craze is ridiculous and that Nash has a really over the top and quite ugly relicing job.

I wouldn't pay over $500 for that POS.

Ahhhhhh - the voice of reason. Thank you, Zen. I don't understand it either.

[Hfan]

One thing about a reliced guitar, you could tell your wife you bought this old beat up guitar for $50 at a garage sale or foune it in a dumpster..

[atquinn]

After building my own strat, I can honestly say that a strat is a strat.

A maple neck, ash body, hardware + pickups and some sort of finish is really rather cut and dry.

The relicing craze is ridiculous and that Nash has a really over the top and quite ugly relicing job.

I wouldn't pay over $500 for that POS.

Ahhhhhh - the voice of reason. Thank you, Zen. I don't understand it either.

Thirded (except for the building a strat myself part )

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Austin

[LordsoftheJungle]

One thing about a reliced guitar, you could tell your wife you bought this old beat up guitar for $50 at a garage sale or foune it in a dumpster..

or you could just take Jimmy Thackery's advice:

[HamStd]

$1000 was the BIN.

Peter

[serial]

Wow=there was a red MIII on the Gear Page yesterday for $750!!

[kizanski]

I wouldn't pay over $500 for that POS.

Your opinion is meaningless because they are worth what they are worth. They go for $1200 minimum without a case all day long and twice on Sunday, so you're definitely in the minority.

The BIN was a grand (+ $70 shipping) so the dope that put in the first bid of $326.33 did the seller a favor or did so to prevent others from getting a good buy.

Not unlike when AnDy bid on a Watson about ten years ago when the Buy it Now price was something in the area of about 50% of what they were going for at the time (I don't remember the actual price). He didn't have the money, but he'd be damned if anyone he knew got a bargain, and he was deliberately trying to screw Fung out of a bargain (he being the odds on favorite to get every rare Hamer that was for sale anywhere).

The epitome of a small person.

I have two Nash's and they are marvelous guitars. They are not quite, but almost, the rivals to my '59 Strat and my '58 Esquire, and that's saying something.

However, I was able to feel them, pocket about $20,000, drop the insurance, and drag my Nash's anywhere I want without a care in the world.

Nash's command their money regardless of what people think of the "relic-ing process". It's here and it's immensely popular. Deal with it.

A grand was a steal. Don't believe me? Just watch what the final price is.

[hamerhead]

Two?!?

Boy, they saw you coming.

[zenmindbeginner]

I wouldn't pay over $500 for that POS.

Your opinion is meaningless because they are worth what they are worth.

Dude, don't get your panties all bunched up, I didn't mean to strike a nerve.

You need to watch your mouth, my opinion is just as relevant as anyone else's here.

the "relic-ing process". It's here and it's immensely popular. Deal with it.

No.

[kizanski]

You need to watch your mouth...

...or what?

[sirDaniel]

i've never bought a relic, and never will. personal choice. seems like posing.

either its big bucks because it's trashed looking or MINT. Lesson is, if you scratch your new guitar, yer screwed for resale, might as well take a rasp to it and do it right.

[Cary]

One thing about a reliced guitar, you could tell your wife you bought this old beat up guitar for $50 at a garage sale or foune it in a dumpster..

Ummm, not saying it was a Nash, but I saw a Strat with no name on the headstock that looked JUST LIKE THAT except with a Maple neck at Music Go Round for $50 a couple of months ago. When I went back a couple days later, it was gone. I felt kind of sick when I first looked at the pics on eBay just now.

[sirDaniel]

You need to watch your mouth...

...or what?

don't mess with the zohan

[MCChris]

You need to watch your mouth...

...or what?

You tell me, "Or what."

The thing about Nashes (maybe even the most important thing) is they sound great. Every one I've ever played has, anyway. As far as the relicing, it's only lame if the owner ends up claiming to his friends who don't know better that those scars were earned in battle. Which, I imagine, happens a fair percentage of the time. From a marketing perspective, it's brilliant.

[sirDaniel]

I even offered to clean the rust off of Muse's 90s studio. He looked at me real funny, like, why TF would you want to do that?

[MCChris]

I even offered to clean the rust off of Muse's 90s studio. He looked at me real funny, like, why TF would you want to do that?

This. Although sometimes the rules need to be broken. Like when the frets get so rusty that the guitar becomes unplayable.

BadgerDave has a Nash Jazz Bass that sounds like a fucking grand piano, and that's unplugged. I'd kill to have that one, reliced or not.

[JohnnyB]

BadgerDave has a Nash Jazz Bass that sounds like a fucking grand piano, and that's unplugged. I'd kill to have that one, reliced or not.

+1. I've played a couple of Nash J-basses at Bass Northwest, a fretted and a fretless. Their goodness in every perceivable performance parameter--tone, weight, fit, refinement, microprecision in fret and other finishing--is beyond reproach and transcends whether they're relic'ed or not. They sound and play great, and once I played one I no longer cared if it has faux roadwear.

Chris, if you're interested in a Nash bass, keep an eye on this page, where Bass Northwest markets their used, discontinued, and floor models. I believe I saw a new (or like-new--how could you tell) Nash J-bass for around $999 a time or two.

It turns out that Nash is made in Tumwater, WA. That's just outside Olympia and also the home of Olympia Beer. Nash tends to use Lollar pickups which are also made in the Puget Sound area.

[kizanski]

As far as the relicing, it's only lame if the owner ends up claiming to his friends who don't know better that those scars were earned in battle. Which, I imagine, happens a fair percentage of the time.

Funny you mention it that because I (actually WE) know someone who has convinced his bandmates that the two Nash guitars that he uses are real vintage Fenders.

Anyway, for the Nash critics, this isn't about if you like Nash guitars or if you don't, if you like the relic style or if you don't.

I'm not dealing in opinions. I'm dealing in fact.

See what they go for. See what this one ends up going for, and then tell me if $1000 was a bargain.

[MCChris]

I'm not dealing in opinions. I'm dealing in fact.

See what they go for. See what this one ends up going for, and then tell me if $1000 was a bargain.

This. If I had the sack I'd have paid the BIN (right at my limit) and flipped the damn thing for a substantial profit if/when things really get bad for me financially.