Can I have the '39 L-00, Jim?
Mick
Can I have the '39 L-00, Jim?
Mick
Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.--Samuel Beckett
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All right, if you insist!
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
I gotta agree with all that... my 1933 A 50 is amazing sounding (and has a great sunburst), and has more tone and volume than my 1924 Snakehead. Plus my Kalamazoo's from the 30's also have a distinctive sound and visual quality that is certainly appealing to me. These are maybe not interesting to a collector but certainly a great value for a player and lover of stringed instruments.
The whole collectible market makes no sense to me sometimes. Thirty years ago I traded a 72 Strat for a Warmouth parts bass and some cash. The Strat was heavy, had thick poly all over it so thick it climbed up the sides of the frets. It had the horrible three screw neck mount and it sounded so brittle as to be useless for anything but funk rhythm. They go for $2000 now for no good reason.
Someday an 89 Taurus will be collectible too.
I still play the Warmouth bass.
Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
in response to the OP: Paddleheads. Non truss-rod Gibsons for well under 2K are a pretty good deal, if you ask me.
f-d
ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
I guess it depends on what "collectable" means to you. With the exception of a very few pristine examples pretty much any Gibson A model from almost any year is not particularly collectable. There are thousands upon thousands of them. A2z and very early Gibson ( like maybe Orville made it himself) mandolins might have some interest to a collector. Popularity is a big factor in creating value. Went to a guitar show and hanging on a wall we're maybe 50 early fenders with $25,000 price tags. There were probably at least a dozen more here and there in the same room being sold by other vendors. I concluded that since there are probably a whole lot more of them not in that room that they aren't rare just desired and therefore collectable. There were something like 64 Martin 230's made,they're beautiful and worth maybe 1/100 th of what a Loar is worth and there are 3 or 4 times as many of them. If I bought an A model in the 1970's for $150 which I have and sold it now for $1500,which I have, it seems to me I lost money on the deal!
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My 1949 A 40 bought thirty years ago, is a very good sounding mandolin (avatar). I had a 2003 Gibson A9 for a while,but sold it. It was a bit louder, but the A 40 blew it away tonewise. I't's a great little all-round mandolin, and it will stay here. I have also played Webers and Collins mandolins, but none have the tone of that old A 40. Maybe I just got a good one.
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