Tallbald
Buckeye
35 years ago, when I left the farm to attend college at age 21, I decided I would learn to play the guitar. Not to attract girls or look cool, but rather to kinda follow a family tradition into music as a pastime. Hey. I couldn't shoot or reload in town, and each weekend returned to the farm to do what was needed, but in those pre-internet days of 1979, a guitar was an alternative to boring evenings in the apartment (I was not a wild guy). Anyhow, on the advise of a brother-in-law, I went to a music store and bought a Japanese-made Alvarez Festival ash wood guitar, model 5029, for gulp......$300. Damn I wish I had instead bought a couple NIB Smith revolvers or LNIB three screw Super Blackhawks with the cash instead. You know. Something I know about.
Anyway, here I am an old man at 56, with a guitar I never learned to play but which is art in wood. Nobody in my family is interested in it. Period. Rather than have it sold in a yard sale 15 years from now for a few bucks, I'd like to sell it now and have some fun with the money. Like, pay down on our used 2012 Ford Escape. Or pay off the rest of the cost of an MRI of my spine from last year.
One musician friend at church said to look up completed internet auction prices like Ebay. I tried that and see prices from under $200 in 2007 to over $500 more recently. I'm sure that like our beloved guns, there are little details that set the price for a specimen. Making a comparison, I'd hate to sell a SAA Colt for an H and R revolver price, but would be embarrassed to ask way too much for a nice but unimpressive instrument. What would be a good method to get my unused guitar into the hands of a real enthusiast at a price fair to both of us? Sell on consignment? Take it 60 miles down the road to Nashville, TN and see what I can get? Go online and register on a guitar forum only to ask for buyers interest?
Anyway, here I am an old man at 56, with a guitar I never learned to play but which is art in wood. Nobody in my family is interested in it. Period. Rather than have it sold in a yard sale 15 years from now for a few bucks, I'd like to sell it now and have some fun with the money. Like, pay down on our used 2012 Ford Escape. Or pay off the rest of the cost of an MRI of my spine from last year.
One musician friend at church said to look up completed internet auction prices like Ebay. I tried that and see prices from under $200 in 2007 to over $500 more recently. I'm sure that like our beloved guns, there are little details that set the price for a specimen. Making a comparison, I'd hate to sell a SAA Colt for an H and R revolver price, but would be embarrassed to ask way too much for a nice but unimpressive instrument. What would be a good method to get my unused guitar into the hands of a real enthusiast at a price fair to both of us? Sell on consignment? Take it 60 miles down the road to Nashville, TN and see what I can get? Go online and register on a guitar forum only to ask for buyers interest?
