Jem 10th Nearly Unplayed - How Much?

[TheActuary]

Hi - I have a Jem 10th Anniversary (#774). If you're savvy enough, you can check up on me on the jem registries, and i'll confirm my name.

Anyway, I got this guitar in 1996 from a dealer called Link's Music in Hanover, PA. It's nearly unplayed - chrome still on pickups, etc. No nicks, dings, scratches or anything like that - NONE at all. The case (the silver US type) has some of the plastic covering the 10th anniversary tag scratched around, but that's the only issue. It's basically sat in a closet, and I think I've played it enough to change the strings twice, and then put it away.

What I want to know is what can I get for it? If it's just what it cost in 1996, then I have zero interest in selling it. It was played in the bedroom with sweatpants on (no buckles or pants with buttons, etc) only, and I can take pictures of it for anyone seriously interested. I can also provide the serial number for proof for the more careful types.

Any prospective buyer would get the guitar, case, absolutely everything it came with new - including the original baggie with the trem allen wrench and Ibanez lit, the certificate, of course, and even a copy of the original 1996 sales lit (which I kept for gits and shiggles). I think the original sales slip is in the case, too.

I was hoping for something in the neighborhood of $4000 - I would like to get a dobro and a Dr Z prescription ES, and I have zero interest in selling the guitar on e-pay. Please let me know if you're interested.

Thanks -
Dave

[TheActuary]

Ahh...forgot that I'm near Pittsburgh, PA.

[johncowan]

I'm into it, please shoot me an email at john.cowan@vertexinc.com

[TheActuary]

Correction to the above, it is actually #477 and not #774. Trying to go from memory and cross checked against a review I wrote on it long ago.

[Chris777]

I would like to see some pics BCDdenz@mchsi.com

[TheActuary]

In the interest of honesty, I got the guitar out for the first time in a while to take better pictures of it, and it does have some very minor swirls (very short in length and very shallow, I guess from polishing the few times it's been polished) in it and the pickups have thin finish at the very edge about a millimeter wide and a cm long. I am having trouble getting the camera to get the swirls because they're not very large, but it does show the pickup. I'm changing the price accordingly to [b]$3500[/i]. I will try to post the pictures on an image host and I will post them in a subsequent link.

This does not by any means make the guitar a "player grade" level unless you count those things as such, but that's up to you. You still won't find many that are like this, especially if they've been played any length of time. Just trying to be honest - have no interest in ripping someone off for a couple of hundred dollars.

[TheActuary]

Here are the pictures. It's difficult to take them. Note the flaws listed above.

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[TheActuary]

So, that didn't work. Attempt #2. The thing that looks like a scratch on the back on the one photo is not a scratch. I don't know if it was a piece of fuzz or what, but it doesn't exist on the real guitar. Like I said, very difficult to take pictures.

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[TheActuary]

Since this is already at the top, I don't see any harm in commenting. Rich told me my pictures look like turds. On my home PC, the brightness or whatever was good enough that the pics are fine. On my work PC (where I am now), I agree they look like crap. The one thing you can see if you look from the bridge up on the third picture, you can see where I'm talking about the finish being missing in a very small spot from the pickup. Look at it closely, and you'll see it on both sides. It's faded like a spot the size of a small fingernail tip on both sides.

I will try to get better pictures this weekend, and if I can't get decent pictures, it might be headed to Rich, so sh1t or get off the pot if you're going to take a stab at it. If you can show me other very minimal wear Jem10s that went for a lot less, my ears are open. Otherwise, I'm fairly firm on the price.

[TheActuary]

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