Second time around

How do you increase the value of a Westone?.....

Get an appraisal from George Gruhn. ;-)

buy them and take away as many as possible from the market to control the supply and therefore the price? That of course requires that many people want westones...

Give it to that Irish karaKnackie to sell on for you in Boston or Shamrock towers ... If the wife or tragedy permitting.....

silence86 wrote:buy them and take away as many as possible from the market to control the supply and therefore the price? That of course requires that many people want westones...

Just like gittarasuarus....

Nope!

sheeooooot man! i'm just a country boy, running wild in this big ole town!

Roy Buchanan knows what i'm talkin bout!

Very well.

But how do you increase the value of a Westone?

um, are we talking value or are we talking proposed selling price?

Westbone wrote:Very well.

But how do you increase the value of a Westone?

If that bass on eBay the other day is anything to go by - chop the end off the headstock, strip the finish, gut the electrics & chuck the knobs away...

I give up... {{{ bracing myself for the onslaught }}}

[quote="punkyjam67
If that bass on eBay the other day is anything to go by - chop the end off the headstock, strip the finish, gut the electrics & chuck the knobs away... [/quote]


Yeah, was a bit suprised at that myself.

Assuming that Damian isn't setting us up for a punch line ( Buzinga! ) I think, collectively, we're already doing it.

Troll almost any guitar board and you'll see positive references to "Matsumoku made" as well as specific references to us here and our brethren over at the Matsumoku Guitar Gallery. Judging by the increasing traffic to both our web site and this forum there is a lot of interest in these instruments, and folks are being educated. Demand has been steadily going up, along with prices, and conversely supply has been going down, particularly in the top end models.

Supply and demand takes care of the pricing, but as for "value", that's a bit more elusive and perhaps even subjective. But taken in the sense of "importance" then those of us addicted to these guitars already know their value.

What he said... ^^^^^^

If only we would shut our collective pie hole about how awesome these instruments are prices might have a chance at remaining reasonable. Value for dollar-wise we need to shut it AFAIAC and that will take care of itself.

...but pure value? Aesthetically or intrinsically far above par for the course back in the day and that will rise naturally as well with the passage of time.


BTW, it is snowing at the moment here. I say huzzah for global warming...

You increase its value by claiming that it was once owned and played by a famous guitarist such as Woody from the Bay City Rollers.

Hoax

Iceman wrote:...BTW, it is snowing at the moment here. I say huzzah for global warming...

You have my permission to invite Al Gore to "bite me!"

We're finally enjoying some beautiful Spring weather here after a miserable April. Mowed the lawn yesterday (yippee )

hoax wrote:You increase its value by claiming that it was once owned and played by a famous guitarist such as Woody from the Bay City Rollers.

Hoax

Was he the nonce/phedo?

Westbone wrote:

hoax wrote:You increase its value by claiming that it was once owned and played by a famous guitarist such as Woody from the Bay City Rollers.

Hoax

Was he the nonce/phedo?

: ba dum bum :

Nah that was Tam Paton their manager.

See their drummer Derek Longmuir also was convicted.

Westbone wrote:See their drummer Derek Longmuir also was convicted.

...hence the double entendre above


http://whateverhappenedtothe.blogspot.com/2011/05/bay-city-rollers.html?m=1

Cheers Ice, already read that.

Can't get one past 'ya....


...you old campaigner, you...

Geez, your worse than my misses for getting the last word!..

I relish the compliment, sire...