A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: quizzaciously on September 08, 2017, 10:05:29 AM
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Gibson Mark Knopfler 1958 58 Aged Les Paul LP Limited:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gibson-Mark-Knopfler-1958-58-Aged-Les-Paul-LP-Limited-/122690815335?hash=item1c90f14567:g:mesAAOSw3QpZbUOz
Price: €14,500.00
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Cool, I'm gonna put one of my kidneys up for sale on eBay now. If you know anyone interested please drop me a line :lol :lol :lol
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Cool, I'm gonna put one of my kidneys up for sale on eBay now. If you know anyone interested please drop me a line :lol :lol :lol
What is your bloodtype? I keep it in mind for incase I ever need a kidney. But hopefully not... ::)
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Cool, I'm gonna put one of my kidneys up for sale on eBay now. If you know anyone interested please drop me a line :lol :lol :lol
What is your bloodtype? I keep it in mind for incase I ever need a kidney. But hopefully not... ::)
Too late, just sold it. Didn't get enough money to buy de LP though. I guess I'll need to sell my car too! lol
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He's selling but it has to be sold. Not saying it won't be but still. I was offered one for about 6k but passed. It was sold almost immediately though. But I was (or should I say am!) after a VOS one, not really a huge fan of aged guitars. But not sure I'll ever get one for a reasonable price. Nothing ever sold more quickly than these it seems (aged or not).
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He's selling but it has to be sold. Not saying it won't be but still. I was offered one for about 6k but passed. It was sold almost immediately though. But I was (or should I say am!) after a VOS one, not really a huge fan of aged guitars. But not sure I'll ever get one for a reasonable price. Nothing ever sold more quickly than these it seems (aged or not).
You mean vintage specs but not aged?
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Not aged is the one I'm after. They were the cheapest of the 3 as well and I think they're calling it VOS. Then there were aged and more expensive (I think that's the one that guy is trying to sell on fleebay) and then there were also signed and aged. Originally they were priced roughly at 4/6/9k I believe.
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Not aged is the one I'm after. They were the cheapest of the 3 as well and I think they're calling it VOS. Then there were aged and more expensive (I think that's the one that guy is trying to sell on fleebay) and then there were also signed and aged. Originally they were priced roughly at 4/6/9k I believe.
Yeah, the VOS one is the way to go for sure. I just made a little scratch on my guitar today and that's great because this is my own scratch.
It could be worse, like here's a world-renewed luthier beating up freshly painted Telecaster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUUuMzxJ9h8
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Obviously the price in that ebay auction is not a realistic price. It is rather 'tulip auction' style: offering it for a very high price, and if nobody buys it the price will be reduced about 100 €. I think he started at 16k and has now reached 14,800. Sooner or later of course someone will buy it...
I did not buy one of the MK LPs myself, maybe a mistake.. what frustrated me was that only the 50 handsigned ones seem to be a full hide-glue construction. I started to build my own guitars and was at that time in fact just experimenting with hot glide glue myself, fascinating stuff, it becomes crystallic hard, lasts for ages, and can even be opened with heat and moisture any time.
Of course you might argue that the kind of glue is not so important for the sound ... but who knows, these things are hard to investigate. Gibson changed to the production-friendly Titebond glue in '64 I think, and of course nobody says the guitars after '64 were inferior to the ones before ... (really nobody...?? ;) )
Also I was not sure if only these 50 were the exact replica of Mark's guitar, with the same neck profile, pickup specs etc. or if all are this way - the Gibson website was a bit unclear here.
For these reasons I would have loved to go for one of the 50 but these were out of my financial reach.
Nevertheless, all the MK LPs are surely great guitars and excelllent investments ... so everbody who bought one should be happy :thumbsup