Do people actually buy these things?

[Dee]

Item number: 180130552784

This is surely a joke?

[Ayrton]

While I agree the price of vintage gear has gone nuts, I can see how these would have value.

Imagine you have an original 1964 Mustang, and the neck screws are the only thing keeping it 100% original.

Look how crazy car collectors are when it comes to the correct nuts and bolts.

[Dee]

Come on Chris, who's to say these aren't just artificially aged ones anyway? I found some more costing $100. With shipping they came to $135. If some dude wants to pay that much for 4 rusty screws, he clearly needs a brain transplant. It's ridiculous.

[Ayrton]

Oh I understand they could be total fakes, but my example is how people get all goofy about vintage parts. I mean can you even authenticate something like screws?

I don't buy guitars to collect them, so it is hard for me to have that mind set.

[Dee]

There's no way to authenticate them, that's exactly it. People often sell artificially aged parts on the Bay and claim they are vintage. I just don't believe it. Now I know where I've been going wrong, though! I have boxes full of screws which I occasionally go through and throw out the rusty ones. Man, I could have been making a killing all these years!

I also saw a battered Strat bridge pickup yesterday for $700. Total junk. I'd want paying to take that thing off his hands.

[waylay00]

Dee, it's all about the tone, the tone, the tone!















Seriously though, I'm sick of that word. That's one of the reasons I stopped reading Vintage Guitar Magazine. All they talk about is "tone". They think "tone" can only be had if one is playing a vintage Strat, Les Paul, or SG. Some fool from that magazine would be the type who would buy these screws, thinking it would improve their "tone".

I do, however, believe that age does help pickups to sound different (coil leakage, etc), but some of these people can get utterly ridiculous when it comes to vintage guitars and "tone".

[Dee]

Originally Posted by waylay00

Dee, it's all about the tone, the tone, the tone!















Seriously though, I'm sick of that word. That's one of the reasons I stopped reading Vintage Guitar Magazine. All they talk about is "tone". They think "tone" can only be had if one is playing a vintage Strat, Les Paul, or SG. Some fool from that magazine would be the type who would buy these screws, thinking it would improve their "tone".

I do, however, believe that age does help pickups to sound different (coil leakage, etc), but some of these people can get utterly ridiculous when it comes to vintage guitars and "tone".

+1,000,000. I'm with you man, I am also sick of that word.

BUT...

It gets worse! Look!



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[waylay00]

That pickguard isn't even pre-CBS Fender! That's insane that they're asking that much.