I have a line on a small-guard 1963 SG Junior that I can pick up at a livable price. It's pretty much like my first "good" electric guitar so I'll admit to some sentimentality. Still, it's a decent deal. It's all there (whammy has been taken off and the holes plugged but all the parts are there, not a bad thing in my book), everything works, it sounds rude and plays very well. Frets in good shape (probably a fairly recent refret), etc.
But
The finish on the body has been mauled. There's not that much that goes through to the wood, but loads of dings, scrapes, gouges and you name it. At some point, it looks like somebody went over the worst of the mess with a pretty close shade of red nail polish that shows up pink if you get the light right. The whole thing looks like some sort of 3-D topographic map. The back of the neck has been sanded but I can live with that. My old one had a bad case of "sticky neck" and I hated it anyway.
Anyway, you get the idea. It's a good player with a terrible finish. If I get it, I don't know that I'd be parting with it any time soon, (see sentimentality comment above), but if I were to get the body refinned, considering the shape it's in now, how much damage would I be doing to the value? No I'm not going into numbers, it's a price I can live with, all things considered.
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I have a line on a small-guard 1963 SG Junior that I can pick up at a livable price. It's pretty much like my first "good" electric guitar so I'll admit to some sentimentality. Still, it's a decent deal. It's all there (whammy has been taken off and the holes plugged but all the parts are there, not a bad thing in my book), everything works, it sounds rude and plays very well. Frets in good shape (probably a fairly recent refret), etc.
But
The finish on the body has been mauled. There's not that much that goes through to the wood, but loads of dings, scrapes, gouges and you name it. At some point, it looks like somebody went over the worst of the mess with a pretty close shade of red nail polish that shows up pink if you get the light right. The whole thing looks like some sort of 3-D topographic map. The back of the neck has been sanded but I can live with that. My old one had a bad case of "sticky neck" and I hated it anyway.
Anyway, you get the idea. It's a good player with a terrible finish. If I get it, I don't know that I'd be parting with it any time soon, (see sentimentality comment above), but if I were to get the body refinned, considering the shape it's in now, how much damage would I be doing to the value? No I'm not going into numbers, it's a price I can live with, all things considered.
Discuss.
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