Les Paul 60th Anniversary $6500?

[Ritchie200]

Just got my latest Sweetwater catalog and saw the anniversary special editions priced at $6500 and a Slash "Dream Guitar" for $14,000!!!  Ok, I somewhat like Les Pauls and actually owned one that I could not keep in tune in the 70's, but....  Really?  $6500?  Or even $14K!!!  Are they just targeting collectors?  There are some mighty fine guitars out there for a fraction of that price.  The description is rife with things like, "historic medium jumbo frets!" and "a VOS nitro finish that poly simply can not provide!"  (If that's the case, I guess I have all sorts of expensive historic guitars around here...)  I hope they didn't pay for that ad copy.  I realize the history.  But wow.  Any thoughts?

Jim

[sluckey]

I just want a Mex tele so I can sound like Ed!

[Ritchie200]

Van Halen?

Jim

[nandrewjackson]

I would love to own the 60th anniversary model. Just because it's a 60th anniversary.  That price is ridiculous,  but not too bad. (I don't have that kind of $ , but Somebody out there does).


The slash model, screw that, you couldn't pay me to own a 14K $ guitar. Some things are beyond ridiculous and that's one of them. Like any PRS over (any guitar) above 5 or 6 K $ is bat-sh*t ridiculous.

[jjasilli]

These sound like guitars marketed for collectors.  There are even collectors who don't play.  A pristine guitar like that with provenance might increase in value over time.


Speaking of '58's & Slash, I just watched a Slash documentary.  Joe Perry (Aerosmith) once had a beloved '58 Les Paul that he had to sell for cash before he came into money.  He always remembered that guitar and decided to track it down.  It turned up in Slash's collection.  Perry phoned Slash a number of times to try to buy it back; but it was becoming an impediment to their friendship, so Perry gave up the chase.  On his next birthday the guitar came back to Perry as a gift from Slash.

[Platefire]

Jim---I thought I was the only one to buy a LP in the 70's that wouldn't tune. My first dream guitar, going all out, bought a Les Paul Custom Black Beauty with gold hardware. Don't know how many times I took it back to the purchase shop for neck adjustments and intonation settings. Nothing worked. I finally had to trade it on another ax because it would not play true up and down the neck.

I now have an Epiphone LP that plays like a LP should. Platefire

[jjasilli]

My solution was Grovers.  The useless Klusons or whatever I threw away are today maybe worth more than I paid for the guitar, a roadworn 69 Goldtop with P-90's.

[Platefire]

Oh it was more than tuning keys on mine. It was pronounced to have a twisted neck. As a young inexperienced guy with big dreams to play the type guitar some of my guitar heroes played, that was a big disappointment. They didn't have it in stock and I had to order it, so it took a while to get it. They had a gold top with P-90's they tried to sell to me but I was stuck on the Black Beauty Custom---now I wish I had gone for the gold top/P-90s. Might of been a whole different story. Platefire