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A Sweet Suprise

Unread post by T1nM4n » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:40 am

ok so...i was looking around in my basement looking for sumthing and a stumbled accross a guitar case, thinking to my self "i dont have any other guitars". so i open it up to find this guitar

http://www.thecanteen.com/nme66.jpg
well not that exact one but u get the point

its a original 1965 Epiphone Casino, model #E230TD

apparantly it was my step dads way back in the day when he was in a band, and luckily enuff he said i could have it, he hasnt palyed guitar for years. since it hasnt been palyed much the only physical damage is a few nicks in the headstock thats all, its jsut really old. so basicaly ive got two questions:

1. What could this guitar be worth
2. what can i do do improve this guitar's preformance since it is so old. obviously first thing i must do is change the strings, even though they are terribly old they dont sound all that bad right now, im hoping thats a sign that it will be even better with new strings. but any other suggestions

thanks
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Unread post by a1075dd63aa12 » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:48 am

sweet deal bro, congrats on the find, i have no idea how much it would be worth, someone here will
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Unread post by erikro » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:10 am

You just found a treasure. If it is in good enough shape they are going for a couple grand on EBAY. Hang on to it though. It is a very versatile guitar and they dont make them in the states any more. Paul McCartney said if he could only have one guitar that it would be his casino.

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Unread post by Brock » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:54 am

Keep that sucker and take it to a good guitar tech to have him check it out and set it up and all of that. That's an amazing find.
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Unread post by Pickles » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:21 am

thats pre-Gibson time right? ive seen a pre-Gibson epiphone go for $6k. awesome find man.
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Unread post by GSR » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:55 am

well fuck, i wish i could find amazing instruments lying around my house.
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Unread post by T1nM4n » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:16 pm

ya i know i was amazed too, cuz as of right now i have only two guitars: a 4 year old Ibanez aw100 acoustic (sucks) and a Fender Squire Strat (sucks), and the one i jsut found

i found it and i was like "holy shit what is this" and my mom came running down cuz she thought i had hurt my self or sumthing. im excited to get it restrung and set up so i can here what this baby has to show
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Unread post by bassman462 » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:56 pm

GSRLessard14 wrote:well fuck, i wish i could find amazing instruments lying around my house.
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