Bruce's Strat for sale.

[philc]

I've just seen a Strat that Bruce owned which is now for sale. It's a 1st edition 25th Anniversary 1979.

It has the three remaining Shadows autographs on it, a letter of proof from Bruce, a gold framed vinyl record, original old beatup case initialed BW.

The paintwork is a very light silver but totally crazed (100%) to the point where it really raised on the front and flaking off.

The body weighs a tone, this strat is the heaviest one I have ever come across, it weighs almost as much as two Les Pauls, no exageration

This is not a "Nice" guitar but the owner think it is worth £12k, maybe up to £3k is more realistic.

Phil

[somebodyelseuk]

It'd be worth about £3k without the signatures. With???
A dealer was telling me a year or two back that signed guitars don't generally fetch much if any more than non-signed guitars. It's a relatively rare guitar and you'd be extremely lucky to find one that hasn't crazed.
If you don't want the guitar for 'the guitar', I wouldn't waste any money on it, it'll never be worth more than the market value.
I'm pretty certain the first edition ones were a creamy white, by the way and they switched to silver because the white lacquer was crazing.
Cheers, Julian

[philc]

Jul 23, 2012 10:57:04 GMT s4wgb said:

Where was that Phil?

Cardiff.

This guitar is extremely crazed and peeling, I mean really bad.