I like buying expensive guitars cheap smile

This is my latest find. A 1930's Regal dobro for $30.

Over the last 50 years I've had some stellar finds but they aren't less than $50.

I'll mention the absolute once in a life time best find I've made. In 1974 I read an ad in a local paper regarding an old Gibson guitar for sale. I get to the house and the guy pulls out a tweed case from under the couch. That sets off all my alarms. He cracks it open and I see the pink plush lining -- oh man! And he pulls out one of the 90 odd original Gibson Fying V's. Yes, really. I buy it for $300 and sell it a year later to a vintage dealer in Atlanta for $5000 thinking I made out like a bandit. Eventually Stephen Stills ends up owning it ... so I was told. I know he has one. Today? $200,000 or more. Regrets? Yeah, but I would never have held on to it for 45 years. Or at least that's what I tell myself. I have some Martin stories too but I'll spare you. Suffice it to say Janice plays a 1943 D-18! Those were THE days for old instrument hunting.

Bud


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