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Emerald · 07-23-2008, 02:27 PM

Well I was there, both Saturday and Sunday, Saturday was when all the action was basically.
I had the experience of trying to help my friend in his brokering role with this '58 Goldtop.
The owner wanted $200K and would take no less, so we were in a position of basically showing the guitar to a lot of people and hear them tell us it was too much money!
I threw together some photos of that guitar, a '56 Custom that showed up at Jack Romano's shop on Friday, routed for PAF's and supposedly fitted with a '59 and a '61 PAF's. One was a longer magnet. The guitar we took apart at the show, labelled mystery '59, was a put together guitar, supposedly around parts of a '59, including again, PAF's. The inlays and neck were a bit dodgy, ect. Also the maple cap had some laminate or something on it, as it was coming apart at the center seam, very weird.
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07-23-2008, 02:27 PM	#11 (permalink)
Emerald Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Phoenix,Arizona Posts: 69 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Philly Show Well I was there, both Saturday and Sunday, Saturday was when all the action was basically. I had the experience of trying to help my friend in his brokering role with this '58 Goldtop. The owner wanted $200K and would take no less, so we were in a position of basically showing the guitar to a lot of people and hear them tell us it was too much money! I threw together some photos of that guitar, a '56 Custom that showed up at Jack Romano's shop on Friday, routed for PAF's and supposedly fitted with a '59 and a '61 PAF's. One was a longer magnet. The guitar we took apart at the show, labelled mystery '59, was a put together guitar, supposedly around parts of a '59, including again, PAF's. The inlays and neck were a bit dodgy, ect. Also the maple cap had some laminate or something on it, as it was coming apart at the center seam, very weird. Emerald Login to a private Photobucket.com album password:malmsteen __________________ And after all, the time goes by. No one knows the reasons why. You lived each day like there was no tomorrow. You spent those years living on time you borrowed. And in your eyes, all I could see was sorrow. Some of us will win, some of us will lose, the strong will survive. Some of us will fall, some of us won't get out of here alive. Blood of emeralds.