Originally Posted by
Woody Sound
"Used-Mint. At some point the original owner had a Charlie Christian pickup professionally installed, and it sounds wonderful. The installation is well done and it looks factory, or perhaps even nicer."
And to refresh the memory for your earlier post, here’s what the first seller told you:
“"Hey! Thank you for your interest
I am selling this guitar for a client . It belonged to his dad who has passed away. He was an engineer who played jazz for his hobby. The best we could ascertain is that the CC was made by Gibson as he had a few others of the same type and that he did the mod himself.”
I don’t know Jay Wolfe and have never knowingly seen a guitar he sold or spoken to anyone who knows or has dealt with him. He seems to have a good reputation and I have not heard anything to the contrary. But somebody in this game of Whispering Down the Lane has (intentionally or not) grossly distorted some facts.
We all know people who fall prey to intense and irrational desire and overpay for things they’ve decided they want without knowing enough about them. Most bad decisions arise out of inexperience, overconfidence, and/or the unfounded belief that they’re getting the bargain of the century. The bargain belief is usually rooted in the unwillingness or inability to spend enough to get a good example of the object of desire, and is compounded by the delusion that reselling it would be easy and yield a profit because “it’s worth more than I paid”.
Used car dealers say that there’s an @ss for every seat. That basic truth combines with the “greater fool theory” to guarantee the eventual resale of almost everything at a profit if the reseller has the time, resources, and marketing savvy to find the greater fool and entice him or her to sit in the seat. If this poor old guitar truly does play well and sound great, it’s worth whatever an adoring suitor will pay for it with all its flaws.
It was no bargain at the estate sale price, and it’s even less so now. Most of us would spend what it takes to buy an intact WesMo instead, if that’s what we wanted. But the current seller knows that there’s someone looking for this one, and there’s a good chance that he or she will find and buy it. I could be wrong, but I do not believe that any knowledgeable and experienced dealer could look at that guitar and believe the pickup was factory installed, or even that a decent luthier installed it. And the line in the current post about trying to get the Custom Shop COA is both inappropriate and misleading. The estate rep and the current seller are less than 100 miles apart. If the engineer’s son has it, it should be with the guitar by now. If he doesn’t and the seller is unwilling to say so (which would not be a sign of high integrity), suggesting that it exists but is unobtainable is disingenuous at best.
I hope the next buyer loves it and is happy with it.
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