What is the oldest guitar you have?

Any vintage guitars going on? I'd like to see them. Yeah.

Until yesterday when i sold it I had a late 50s Harmony Stratotone flea market fixerupper. Cheap piece of shit but valuable once it got an electronics overhaul and setup. Thanks for your money, hipster!

I think my my yamaha SA1000 might be the oldest by a biscuit, but I'm not sure, I would have to cntact Yamaha with the serial as it could be any vintage from like 75 to 84. the eck is really round and deep so I suspect its an early one though. My Greco doublecut paul is definitely a '77, my Hamer is defintiely a '78 and my lawsuit '59 burst copy is a '78 or 79, probably a '78 based on pickup/pot date codes. So they're all in there at almost the same age. Other than my 80s washburns and Carvin my other guitars are all late 90s and 2000s. In amps my oldest is the '62 Vox AC30B. The oldest amp I've EVER owned was an early 50s Gibson GA20, but not by a lot, I had a '55 5C3 deluxe as wella s a 59 GA14.... I had a 'small tweed phase' awhile ago after I stopped playing superleads. I don't know that you could call any of my oldies 'vintage'. To me the 70s is questionably vintage and they aren't cnredibly collectible guitars.... good player pieces that do the business but vintage? eh... the main thing I am looking for in older guitars is old growth wood or wood species thata re protected by international environmental statutes now. A played in guitar is sweet and all but it only takes 5 years of professional touring to play one in, so its really about the wood.

2003 is a long time ago, right?

I recently read an interview about wood quality of vintage acoustic guitars. It said that the big american brands changed their wood quality policy in 1972, which means that – apart from the individual condition and things like WW2 – the guitars built before that year will enhance their value constantly.

The oldest guitar I have is an all-solid birch Harmony Stella H910 Classical Guitar from 1966. I got it on Ebay only 80€. http://images.equipboard.com/uploads/item/image/48733/harmony-h910-stella-classic-l.jpg?v=1493552883

I'm so jealous of your possabilites of getting instruments like this for only a few bucks on flea markets or garage sales. Nobody imported american guitars in the early and mid 20th century over here. And those who have these vintage guitars now know their worth.

My Teisco ET2000 (St. George MJ-3 or Coltone) rings in as a '63 hitting catalogs in '64. (second guitar from left on my 2nd gear porn pic).

1984

ummm, that's the year I met my wife I think.... so it seems like yesterday to me, but I guess that's starting to be 15 years ago if you do some subtraction. Still seems recent

The oldest guitar I have is an all-solid birch Harmony Stella H910 Classical Guitar from 1966. I got it on Ebay only 80€.

I'm so jealous of your possabilites of getting instruments like this for only a few bucks on flea markets or garage sales. Nobody imported american guitars in the early and mid 20th century over here. And those who have these vintage guitars now know their worth.

she's probably not a player, I mean harmonies seldome are, but she's really attactive.... I really like birch and beech as guitar woods

my stratotone was a fluke , those yardsale finds are rare here now thanks to ebay and internet info.... this was a fluke really. Honestly, i wish I could get old Hofners here. They are so thin on the ground in America. I have to get the picture of my harmony off my phone for you. Ithink I cna just post it to imgur from there. I'll see. Otherwise, my Yamaha and Greco are in my gear porn. I haven't photoed the hamer and burny yet, but they're just variations on the theme of a lot of my collection. I have been really into the whole les paul to SG spectrum the last few years so I am collecting up all the different gradations of those hsapes I cnafind. I still need another legit Jr and/or special, a Yamaha SG, melody maker D, Ibanez Artist and some of the newer guitars like a Gibson 335S, gibson lp studio DC, reverend sensei, yamaha revstar.... maybe even an original super-flighter. I wanna have a comprehensive colelction.

My Teisco ET2000 (St. George MJ-3 or Coltone) rings in as a '63 hitting catalogs in '64. (second guitar from left on my 2nd gear porn pic).

i think we have a winner.... that's an early Teisco del Ray, wow

And my Teisco NB-4 bass prob clocks in about '65

Getting old Höfner or Framus guitars won't be a problem here. We could trade stuff! I'd like to get a good old Gibson archtop and pretend to play jazz. Or a LG-2! Will we have to pay import taxes if we do so?

prewar gibsons are available and great but they are so expensive you would owe me a dozen hofners for one 30s archtop

that seems worth the effort though

a fucking dozen hofners?

I just searched for some Höfners on Ebay-Kleinanzeigen (like a german Craig's List). There's plenty of stuff going on, including a bunch of basses.

https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-musikinstrumente/höfner/k0c74

The Harmony I have does indeed not sing like an angel. More like whore. I like her nonetheless. The birch sounds pretty dry. I only use it as a couch guitar.

that seems worth the effort though

a fucking dozen hofners?

yeah, well, we're talking 5 to 10 thousand US dollars. I could buy a used SUV for that isntead of getting 12 hofners LOL

huh, that kleinanzeigen page won't load the pictures for me

see, I would defintiely record with a beater harmony because they are so distinct and kidna awful sounding.... but I only use acosutic guitar as an arrangement element and seldom the star of the show.

hmmm. i think that distinct is better than perfect tbh.

thr trouble is old hamronies, supros etc play like shit and require heavy modification to play well... there's actually a luthier who runs a business disassembling, reinforcing and improving vintage harmony acoustics to make them players, the theory being that the old growth wood makes it worth the expense of the luthier service ebcause its still cheaper than buying a gibson or martin of similar vintage in today's market

I've got a late 50s Höfner President German version. The neck is a bit concave, but it still plays and sounds great. It can be seen in my first gear photo (right side). I took out the original bridge to install a Shadow SH980. My second oldest guitar is a 1962 Höfner 456/S/E1. Actually I don't know exactly if it's a 456. It could also be a 457. One tends to confuse the 457 with the 456. The only way to differentiate them for sure is to identify the wood type of the Soundboard. The 457 has a spruce top, the 456 has a maple top. Both guitars are great.

Aria Pro II series "The Cat" Korea 1987