Birth Year Guitar

[Clockworkmike]

If I told you I was born in 82 would you give me the one signed by Lester?

Holy poop i didnt catch the signature! Yeah no kidding they rule

 

[Don O]

Nice. I've never played one of those...What kind of pickups does that have in it?

They are US Mint PROOF SET single coils.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

Same here, my birth year is 76 and nobody wants a 76 anything!

Hey i do! Love my 76 wine red custom!


As for birth year my old Eko is either a 62, 63 or 64 so i will say a 63 amd I win!!

 

[Ebidis]

Those Ekos are one guitar I've never tried. They definitely look right up my alley though.

Seems like having a guitar "up your ally" would be a bit uncomfortable.

 

[mcblink]

I'm almost sure that 1982 was a bad year for all guitar companies.

And kids too.....based on everyone else I know born in '82....lol

 

[mcblink]

‘82 on the right, and ‘85 on the left. Bought the ‘82 in ‘83, the other in ‘89. I can assure you they have never seen AquaNet. Plenty of beer and weed, but no blow also.

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I stand corrected...
That's beautiful!

 

[mcblink]

Wait.... you dudes are also 82 kids????

Wtf?

This is like meeting new friends in the ball pit at McDonald's lol

 

[eSGEe]

none here got one that close (1970 LEs Paul Recording Guitar) Im a '69 model..... have a '62 EBO bass..... 2 70's era Peaveys ......but that is as close as I get nothing SPOT on a '69 ...the rest are 80's and up

 

[Clockworkmike]

Wait.... you dudes are also 82 kids????

Wtf?

This is like meeting new friends in the ball pit at McDonald's lol

Lol one year behind ya but close enough to hang in the Mickey Ds Ballpit

 

[syscokid]

1958 for me, and this is what I'm currently thinking: What if I had a guitar that was built from a tree that sprouted in 1958? How long does a mahogany or maple tree need to grow for some proper guitar wood?

 

[67plexi]

I'm a 1958

 

[gball]

I was born in 1966, and since they didn't make a proper carved-top, single cutaway Les Paul that year I really have no interest in a birth-year guitar.

 

[iblive]

I did buy a 1954 vintage port for my 50th birthday. It was pretty awesome. Kept the bottle. Destroyed the inner evidence.

 

[Cadorman]

none here got one that close (1970 LEs Paul Recording Guitar) Im a '69 model..... have a '62 EBO bass..... 2 70's era Peaveys ......but that is as close as I get nothing SPOT on a '69 ...the rest are 80's and up

I used to have a '69 Camaro. I guess it was okay.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

Those Ekos are one guitar I've never tried. They definitely look right up my alley though.

I use for slide. Otherwise sustain like a banjo. Fun guitar, grungy sounding not the best playing IMO.

I'm a 1958

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Wait. So you own a 58 flying V? And that LP??

 

[Hackmaster]

I've always wanted a birth year guitar, and high school era car.
The perfect guitar would be a 1959 Lester, but now that they're unobtainium, I settled for an old Harmony, that I got in pieces.

Not quite what I had in mind, but it is a 1959 from what I could tell from the faded inked model numbers inside.
The car would have to be a gold1977 Trans Am, but it would never be.
Ended up graduating high school in a 76 Gremlin instead.

 

[Cadorman]

I've always wanted a birth year guitar, and high school era car.
The perfect guitar would be a 1959 Lester, but now that they're unobtainium, I settled for an old Harmony, that I got in pieces.
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Not quite what I had in mind, but it is a 1959 from what I could tell from the faded inked model numbers inside.
The car would have to be a gold1977 Trans Am, but it would never be.
Ended up graduating high school in a 76 Gremlin instead.

Now if it was the Gremlin X with the 401 that would be cool. I knew a guy that had a blue one that would run mid-twelves in the quarter all day long.

 

[Cadorman]

I guess since I have multiple replacement parts I would consider a Custom Shop reissue as equivalent to an actual birth year guitar. I could go for a 1966 reissue SG if they decided to make one.

 

[Cadorman]

So, makes me wonder. I'm no longer all original. Am I worth less?

 

[C-Grin]

So, makes me wonder. I'm no longer all original. Am I worth less?

Like most pieced together specimens, worth more in pieces than as together