PRICE for 52 Gold Top Convertion

[cream1986]

Hi fellows,Anyone of you might have the idear what can be a reasonable price for a 52 gold top converted to 57?

The neck was replaced in 80's by gibson by using the same old growth mahogany.the body has been rounted for Pafs,and beem refinished in nitrocellulose.the rest of the parts came from 57--mid 60's

The guitar sounds pretty sweet,hate to let it go.But currently in kinda of financial crisis.Wish it came out for a good price.Will post some pic later on.

Cheers

[thefishingline]

Your PM is not on....Feel free to call me direct if you want 516-889-6895 both for advice and perhaps selling it. PM me your number and I'll call you

My main questions are:
1. Who did the conversion?
2. Who did the paint job?
3. Having old growth wood neck in the 80's to me is not the same as having the original neck on the guitar from the 50's that's a big downer
4. It is routed for PAF's...are there PAF's in the guitar now?
5. What parts are original to the 52? The pick guard? Knobs? PUP rings? Back plastic? Harness? Switch tip? Truss rod cover etc...

I have a Mirabella 52/57 with all original parts including the neck except for the PUP rings...easily $28k or more IMHO and I have seen them go more and of course less depending on the condition and how many parts are original

Hope this helps

[The Stumble]

Hi Cream

first let me welcome you to forum

secondly have a read through the thread a few before this one called "how much is this worth 1952 refin" and pick up a few pointers.

Basically i can see the same thing happening to this thread where people give you various figures that do nothing to confuse you even more

so if you truly want to sell the guitar take as many pictures as possible (including cavities) list out all the parts and what is original and post it on ebay with a link in the members classified section

Its the only way of getting the best price for the guitar IMHO

[cream1986]

cherrs guys!!! Will do as told.

I traded in 3 of my guitars for this gold top 6 month ago,not very happy with what they treated on the guitar but i do love the sound.The Pafs are amazing.And yes it has Pafs on it.My guitars are easily worth about 10k pounds,R9 from 95,Murphy aged R9 from 06,Clapton ES335 replica

The guitar not the 'refin' to me,something kinda restored.

Im based in london Uk.so all jod was done in 'londoncustomguitars' 25 denmark street.

Thefishingline&The Stumble,thanks you guys,what a nice forum,haha

[jimi55lp]

Ebay it for the best sales potential with photos of cavities and parts identified is also my suggestion for your best response, and don't let someone beat you done with any crap, if they think your out of touch, let them go and move on to the real buyer.

[cream1986]

cheers mate!! got ya!

[cream1986]

hi fellows,here are infor,

the humbuckers are long magent pafs,original windings,with stickers

the pickup surounds are M69 dated 1957

three way switch 1957

three way washer repro/then changed to 59er

switch tip 1959

wiring loom 1957

pickguard 1957

volume and tone knobs 1959

volume and tone pots 1966

caps 1959/then changed to something else shows in pic

nickel tailpiece 1964

stop tail studs 1959

jack socket 1956

bridge 1990er

machine heads 90er/then changed to gold grover from 80's

jack plate 1959

back plate-brown-1970's

the switch ring 1968

the inlays and binding are correct.

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[cream1986]

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[Stowburst]

Great pics man! Welcome to forum!

You should KEEP IT...I know what you mean about the cash crises here in the uk.. but I would hold on to that guitar. Or take the PAFS out and sell them me LOL!

Where are you in London?

[cream1986]

Hi,stowburst!! thanks for the tips.

Im based in SE1, albert embankment,close to Victoria.

This guitar sounds and rings so good,it would just sounds like Mark Knopfler's 59.

bridge pickup is just a killer.wish i could keep the pafs....

anyone could tell me dose the old wood really sounds incrediblly good or the Pafs can do it all???

[Stowburst]

Nxt time in in London I'll give you a shout

Originally Posted by cream1986

anyone could tell me dose the old wood really sounds incrediblly good or the Pafs can do it all???

Wood and PAFs its all relative.. if you got a good piece of wood then its going to make a difference.. same with the pups.. and when you got both.. KILLER TONE!

I went to see Knopfler at Royal Albert Hall a while back and his Burst was just pure tone..really deeeep!

[cream1986]

I did saw him at royal albert hall too,what a night.what a tone.

his burst + suhr moded Plexi+his finger=sound from heaven.

the warm up band sounds great as well,the guitarist were using a gibson firebird if im not mistaken. wondering their names.

Im in love with burst all started from EC on BEANO,hideaway&all your love are my fave

[RCCola]

Awesome goldtop. If you don't need to sell it, it would be best to keep it in my opinion. You can try to sell it, but more likely than not, you're not going to get offers even as high as a few months ago. Things were pretty bad a few months ago, but they're even worse now.

Anytime I've ever sold gear, I've never had to wait more than 2 days to get a good price and sell the item. These past few weeks, I've had items up for a lot more than 2 days and the items that sold went for a good bit less than I had expected to get.

I don't sell items as expensive as your goldtop, so maybe higher end buyers don't have as much problem shelling out during a recession. But, anybody with money in the stock market has probably lost a chunk of change so who knows how many people are willing to shell out big dough for guitars at this time.

[Liam]

That looks nice. My guess is that it's probably still worth about what it owes you (£10K UKP for a 52 converted and a pair of 50s PAFs), however the neck replacement might be a problem. The man to ask is Rich H.

Member of this forum, all round good guy, and might even know someone that would be interested...worth a call.

http://www.richardhenryguitars.com/

If I had the money....bet it's lovely

[shotgunlew]

Sweet sweet guitar my friend, Id keep it if I was you...

[cream1986]

Thanks guys for kind words!!

Will call Richard for info,Cheers Liam!