I picked up a mint early 90’s MIJ in Austin many years ago. Was fantastic and I loved the looks. Never had a crack amazingly…sold it like a fool. Great video. Thanks!
I 1st saw cheapy lightweight body copies of both blue & pink years ago & bought them knowing nothing. What I now know I've learned mostly from you & I thank you. I just love 'em....
Some of us older fellers remember the Paisley Yellow dinning tables haha. I would of NEVER thought, that flowered dining table would make a nice looking guitar 🙂 Great video @Ask Zac
Great video, helps me a lot with understanding one of my guitars, which is an original Blue Floral '68. The sides are still blue, but of course the flowers are gone. All original parts, been in the family since '68.
Just thought of this the other day: when I was a kid looking for my first electric guitar (circa 1996) I was in a shop here in Ireland, noodling on a sunburst Strat knock-off, when I looked up and saw a blue flower Tele hanging on the wall! Almost certainly a reissue, who knows if any originals even made it to Irish shores, but it caught my eye. If I’d had the money I woulda left the store with it. I even told the fellas at school about it, and they thought I was nuts! lol… “a guitar with FLOWERS on it??”… “Uh, yeah… But they were COOL flowers!” 😂
I have been wanting to build one of these forever but I missed the boat on the allparts bluepaisley bodies. Great video and history lesson. Thank you very much.
I built one with the allparts body. I like it good enough and play it often, but I'm still not satisfied with the pattern of the floral print. I wish someone would recreate these to look like the original. Bill Crook told me he had thought about it but there wasn't enough demand to justify the cost. I've even contacted vinyl wrap guys in my area and they either don't want to do it or can't copy it correctly. Ugh
I bought a blue flower Tele around 1973. The front and back of the body finish had disintegrated and had been refinished with a clear coat. The edge of the body still had the blue paint. I had the guitar shop remove the blue paint and refinish with a clear coat for a uniform appearance. I painted the back-side of the clear pickguard to hide the body routes. I was very happy with it! Back in the day when guitars were just instruments, not collectible! Oh well!
I had a 2000s MIJ RI that I got in like new condition for $550 and I traded it because I didn't like the pickups. I always regret it. But - the series of trades ended with the 2001 SG Standard that I have now and it's really good too.
Thanks Zac, fascinating to see the origination of these. I have a Custom Shop ‘71 (?) reissue thats Blue Flower/Thinline/Wide Range HB’s and a Strat bridge. Lovely guitar.
Zac, First LOVE your channel! You, 5 Watt World and Rick Beato are the best music channels anywhere! I’ve researched your episode history and couldn’t find any episode devoted to the Gretsch guitar. Particularly that the greatest country, or any genre, guitarist was a Gretsch aficionado it would certainly offer an interesting history.
As I recall, a lot of companies were trying to cash in on psychedelia post the Summer of Love (1967) and Flower Power, and not just in clothing. That may have been the motivation behind the Pink Paisley and Blue Flower Teles. It was a quick and dirty way for a manufacturer to jump onto that particular bandwagon without having to make a major investment. After all, Fender are a So Cal company and California was where it was at musically in America at the time. Haight Ashbury was at its height and an awful lot of Fender's best customers were moving in with each other in Laurel Canyon and forming new bands.
Great video Zac, this topic has never been as extensively covered (or as accurately). Regarding your estimate at the intro, I think it's more like 10x the number of pink paisley compared to blue flower. You rarely ever see the latter. I'm lucky to own one of each, they're super cool guitars.
i want one bad! there’s a CS “50’s” reissue thinline tele ive been watching…need it to brother w my CS pink paisley jm! but your insight on how the reissues aren’t done right re: the embossing and stuff bummed me out. 😫😫😫lol
You know how you can tell these guitars are straight up gawdy? Elvis’s guitar player was afraid to show it him. The guy who did his show in white jumpsuits covered in rhinestones, huge gold sunglasses and danced the way he did. James Burton was afraid to show THAT GUY the guitar 😂😂😂. That’s how gawdy the guitar is 😂😂😂. In a cool way of course.
He wasn't doing those ornate jumpsuits at the time James brought it out though so it makes even more sense that James would have been apprehensive about it because in the early days his suits were not that loud and ornate he actually started trying to do it in a suit that was like a karate ghee but they ripped.
Cool episode Zac. Very informative. Glad to be a Patreon and see some of these episodes early. It must have been frustrating for someone back then to have payed the equivalent of over 400 dollars extra only to find out that the finish wouldn’t hold up in the long term. I wonder what price those rare examples would fetch these days.
For a second, I thought you had Brad’s blue paisley! That thing must be a one-off. I don’t remember seeing an original blue flower, either. These things are all super cool…why does a yellowed clear coat make everything look so much better?
Hi Zac, I was extremely lucky enough to purchase an 1968 orignial blue floral tele from a gentleman yesterday. Its an absolute stunner! His father bought this guitar for him when he was 16 and in 1972 he noticed the back foil was coming off from the buckle wear and was afraid that the front foil was also going to come off. So he removed the pickguard and made a thin clear acrylic that covers the whole front of the guitar and was able to preserve all the flower foils on the front. You said on the video that you glued some of the foil back to the guitar that you showed in the video. What glue did you use? I have some foil coming off on the back and thinking of gluing them back. Thanks for great video!
Is it possible that this was the material that was wrapped around Jesse Ed Davis' '59 Tele on the Rock n Roll Circus? It's a dark greenish paisley pattern.
Great video Zac. I have a Fender custom shop blue flower ‘68 which is now my favourite guitar. Do you know what the plan is for the brown refinished guitar on the video? I hope it will be refinished one day soon.
Great info as usual, thank you so much. I have both the MIJ Fender Pink Paisley ‘69 RI and a Tokai Breezysound Tele Blue Flower, both are nice guitars with the Blue Flower neck better fitting my fingers. You scared me a bit that paper often wears out, a thing I didn’t know about, so I’ll stop taking them to gigs and only use them at home! 😂
The bump in Strat popularity in the UK would also have been helped by the lifting of the post war import embargo.. Prior to that US made guitars were very hard to come by in the UK, hence the popularity of brands like Burns, Watkins, Hofner etc..
I have a complete all original hardware and case pink paisley in great shape. So I don’t take out on gigs anymore, haven’t in many years but it also has a sound I can’t match with any other tele I’ve tried. Do you think the finish has something to do with the sound
Great episode - thanks! Have always wondered how these came to be. That piece you played at the beginning - was that your composition? Sounds familiar but can't place it.
It bothers me the Fender reissues have so little of the "paper" finish on them. The edges of blue or pink start way to early on the front and rear. Would love to add a blue floral to the collection, but the reissues don't look right. Cost saving method I suppose, but I am the proud owner of an Early Crook Custom Pink Paisley that looks amazing!
They had one for sale in the 80's at a store across the street from Manny's in NYC called We Buy Guitars for a couple of hundred bucks. I really wanted to buy it but I couldn't come up with the money. Oh well.
I don’t know that I agree that ‘WE’ haven’t figured out how to recreate it. Bill Crook has gotten it as close to perfect as you can get without buying it straight from Borden chemical. He has definitely taken the time.
My dream guitar. I have a reissue Tele and Strat, but they just don't look like the original. Would love to find someone that can copy the original pattern.
@@telecaster7855 It was such a long, long time ago, Tele. I guess it was a year or two, perhaps three years after I bought it. I remember it starting cracking, at first. After a while, the cracks kind of cross-hatched and the finish just started peeling up. I remember it as being a pretty thick polly over a foil of some sort. It was such a beautiful guitar.. It was so bad I ended up sanding all of it off. After all of these years, I have the old beat up case I bought it with, which I've used for my 74 Strat.
I have a Fender Japan blue floral tele. I love it, one of my favorites! I've always been curious about the history and building techniques. Thanks Zac for doing this! A real treat!
Great video of Waylon doing me and Bobby McGee the guitar player in the background is playing one the video is probably from the 60 or 70s how about doing a video on the Waylon telecaster love your videos
You mention Tele sales dropping off in the early ‘60s and picking up again in 1966. That was probably due to one guy-Mike Bloomfield. When he first came to prominence around 1965 with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and then with Bob Dylan, he was playing a Tele. I think a lot of rock guys, of which I was one back then, got interested in Teles as a guitar for rock and blues virtuosos. Jeff Beck was playing one too. Regarding Blue Floral and Pink Paisley Teles, I graduated high school in ‘68, the year those came out, and growing up as a hippie-in-the-making in San Francisco, I thought they were goofy, and an example of Corporate America trying to be cool. Well, I was 18…At some point, I got to thinking the Pink Paisley was OK, probably because of James Burton, but in the early ‘70s I was still a Gibson player. I got my first Tele new in 1974, sunburst with a maple neck, and really didn’t give it a chance-it was so different than the Les Paul I’d been playing, and I traded it in on a new Strat. Later in ‘74, I got a ‘59 Tele and realized how great they can be. Loved Teles ever since, and when I started playing country, I had the right guitar for the job. But I’ve never owned a Paisley one, although I wouldn’t turn one down!
I have a tale of a sparkle silver '68 Tele I butchered that was resurrected to its original glory via a Marty Bell sparkle silver refinished '68 Blue Floral body. Before you call the cops, the '68 Blue Floral's body had deteriorated to the point the frustrated owner had its body refinished in Lake Placid blue. The original sparkle silver body of my '68 had been stripped to bare wood in the early 70s, routed for a humbucker and basically beaten to crap. I finally gave it away and replaced it with a Warmoth (still have it as basis for a Partscaster). To honor the sadly deceased original owner of the '68 sparkle silver, from whom I'd traded for it in '73, I decided to restore the guitar to its original condition. Number one I needed an original EARLY '68 body with the wire channel and recessed ferrules, which is what the Feb '68 spatrkle silver had. The refined Blue Floral body was for sale on Ebay and filled the bill. Marty did a stupendous job of the finish and the guitar is now all '68, just not the '68 that left the factory. Hey, that body needed a good home! The body came to me with the heavy tape over the wire channel intact, though it was removed to do the sparkle silver refin. It also came with the original clear Blue Floral pickguard, though it's in pretty bad condition.
Who pays more money for the guitar with a different color. Really. Look at all the people who think it's a good idea to pay thousands more for a Gibson LP Murphy Lab. Hey guy's I have some new cars that look like they have a couple hundred thousand miles on to sell you for way more than a perfect new one.
“A buddy of mine…” 😂 Terrific video, Zac.
We all know about that guitar....
😁
I picked up a mint early 90’s MIJ in Austin many years ago. Was fantastic and I loved the looks. Never had a crack amazingly…sold it like a fool. Great video. Thanks!
I’ve always regretted not getting Bill Crook to build me one. His replicas have always impressed me! His mojo he uses seems to be spot on!
I 1st saw cheapy lightweight body copies of both blue & pink years ago & bought them knowing nothing. What I now know I've learned mostly from you & I thank you. I just love 'em....
Wanted a paisley Tele for a while. Didn’t know how difficult it was to make. Once again another magisterial brilliant guitar history lesson from Zac.
Some of us older fellers remember the Paisley Yellow dinning tables haha.
I would of NEVER thought, that flowered dining table would make a nice looking guitar 🙂
Great video @Ask Zac
Great video, helps me a lot with understanding one of my guitars, which is an original Blue Floral '68.
The sides are still blue, but of course the flowers are gone. All original parts, been in the family since '68.
I have a Made in Japan 1984 version of this guitar. Amazing to play and the finish has held up well! Thanks for featuring this guitar.
Just thought of this the other day: when I was a kid looking for my first electric guitar (circa 1996) I was in a shop here in Ireland, noodling on a sunburst Strat knock-off, when I looked up and saw a blue flower Tele hanging on the wall! Almost certainly a reissue, who knows if any originals even made it to Irish shores, but it caught my eye. If I’d had the money I woulda left the store with it. I even told the fellas at school about it, and they thought I was nuts! lol… “a guitar with FLOWERS on it??”… “Uh, yeah… But they were COOL flowers!” 😂
Just magnificent stuff, Brother. Long live the tele....!
The more I look at them the more I love them. Especially the blue.
thank you for another story that will fuel my unending affection for teles Zac
I have been wanting to build one of these forever but I missed the boat on the allparts bluepaisley bodies. Great video and history lesson. Thank you very much.
Thanks!
I built one with the allparts body. I like it good enough and play it often, but I'm still not satisfied with the pattern of the floral print. I wish someone would recreate these to look like the original. Bill Crook told me he had thought about it but there wasn't enough demand to justify the cost. I've even contacted vinyl wrap guys in my area and they either don't want to do it or can't copy it correctly. Ugh
I love that story. Thanks for sharing Zac! 🎸
I bought a blue flower Tele around 1973. The front and back of the body finish had disintegrated and had been refinished with a clear coat. The edge of the body still had the blue paint. I had the guitar shop remove the blue paint and refinish with a clear coat for a uniform appearance. I painted the back-side of the clear pickguard to hide the body routes. I was very happy with it! Back in the day when guitars were just instruments, not collectible! Oh well!
I had a 2000s MIJ RI that I got in like new condition for $550 and I traded it because I didn't like the pickups. I always regret it. But - the series of trades ended with the 2001 SG Standard that I have now and it's really good too.
Fascinating never seen one of those Blue floral Paisley ! Thanks Zac it's great
I love them. So quirky and cool. I have a Pink Paisley MIJ from '97 and a Blue Flower MIJ from 2019.
Thanks Zac, fascinating to see the origination of these. I have a Custom Shop ‘71 (?) reissue thats Blue Flower/Thinline/Wide Range HB’s and a Strat bridge. Lovely guitar.
I love your paisley tele. I love the paisley tele in general. Its gloriously gawdy lol. Like a wallpaper Elvis would of covered Graceland in.
Zac, First LOVE your channel! You, 5 Watt World and Rick Beato are the best music channels anywhere! I’ve researched your episode history and couldn’t find any episode devoted to the Gretsch guitar. Particularly that the greatest country, or any genre, guitarist was a Gretsch aficionado it would certainly offer an interesting history.
I've heard of that friend with the "black" paisley... thank you for sharing this!
You are my kind of Tele nerd!❤
I’ve wanted to build one of those! I remember on the Reranch forum a person was also using cloth bandanas vs contact paper.
Awesome video! My number one guitar for the last 20 years has been a blue floral reissue Tele. Would love to have an original ‘68.
Very informative, thanks Zac. I've always liked the Blue Flower Teles.
The shade on sides is perfect.
With poly they still sound great and the full maple necks on those ‘69s are amazing. Ask James Burton. 😉
As I recall, a lot of companies were trying to cash in on psychedelia post the Summer of Love (1967) and Flower Power, and not just in clothing. That may have been the motivation behind the Pink Paisley and Blue Flower Teles. It was a quick and dirty way for a manufacturer to jump onto that particular bandwagon without having to make a major investment.
After all, Fender are a So Cal company and California was where it was at musically in America at the time. Haight Ashbury was at its height and an awful lot of Fender's best customers were moving in with each other in Laurel Canyon and forming new bands.
12:34 - a “buddy”. :)
Hahaha…;)
Great video Zac, this topic has never been as extensively covered (or as accurately). Regarding your estimate at the intro, I think it's more like 10x the number of pink paisley compared to blue flower. You rarely ever see the latter. I'm lucky to own one of each, they're super cool guitars.
Mahalo Zak! Another informative show.
I have a partscaster in almost the exact color as the side of that Tele. The company I bought the body from calls it Sherwood Green.
Really cool story! I’ve only seen one of these before. I didn’t know it came from fender as the paisley did…
fascinating history ,thanks Zac
Thanks Zac, really interesting video.
i want one bad! there’s a CS “50’s” reissue thinline tele ive been watching…need it to brother w my CS pink paisley jm! but your insight on how the reissues aren’t done right re: the embossing and stuff bummed me out. 😫😫😫lol
You know how you can tell these guitars are straight up gawdy? Elvis’s guitar player was afraid to show it him. The guy who did his show in white jumpsuits covered in rhinestones, huge gold sunglasses and danced the way he did. James Burton was afraid to show THAT GUY the guitar 😂😂😂. That’s how gawdy the guitar is 😂😂😂. In a cool way of course.
Hahaa
He wasn't doing those ornate jumpsuits at the time James brought it out though so it makes even more sense that James would have been apprehensive about it because in the early days his suits were not that loud and ornate he actually started trying to do it in a suit that was like a karate ghee but they ripped.
Elvis loved that guitar. Told Burton to always play it onstage
Ya it was weird looking at the time..but it was a TELECASTER and James Burton playing it....wow...just awsome
To do a more durable reissue of this the design should be silkscreened. Leave the paper behind. Wonderful video - thanks Zac!
Cool episode Zac. Very informative. Glad to be a Patreon and see some of these episodes early. It must have been frustrating for someone back then to have payed the equivalent of over 400 dollars extra only to find out that the finish wouldn’t hold up in the long term. I wonder what price those rare examples would fetch these days.
A 68 Blue Flower will got for 20-30k with most of the paper intact
@@AskZac Wow. I never even considered it fetching that much.
For a second, I thought you had Brad’s blue paisley! That thing must be a one-off. I don’t remember seeing an original blue flower, either. These things are all super cool…why does a yellowed clear coat make everything look so much better?
With all respect Mr. Zack. That is one "FUGLY" Guitar. You rock. Have fun on tour. I'll stay tuned in.
Hi Zac, I was extremely lucky enough to purchase an 1968 orignial blue floral tele from a gentleman yesterday. Its an absolute stunner! His father bought this guitar for him when he was 16 and in 1972 he noticed the back foil was coming off from the buckle wear and was afraid that the front foil was also going to come off. So he removed the pickguard and made a thin clear acrylic that covers the whole front of the guitar and was able to preserve all the flower foils on the front. You said on the video that you glued some of the foil back to the guitar that you showed in the video. What glue did you use? I have some foil coming off on the back and thinking of gluing them back. Thanks for great video!
Thin super glue
Great video Zac, my Xotic T style guitar I ordered 6 months ago is supposed to come any day, the wait is killing me.
Watching this with my project telecaster bass with the 1968 telecaster bass body. No foil here.
Love your videos!!!
Is it possible that this was the material that was wrapped around Jesse Ed Davis' '59 Tele on the Rock n Roll Circus? It's a dark greenish paisley pattern.
Great video Zac. I have a Fender custom shop blue flower ‘68 which is now my favourite guitar. Do you know what the plan is for the brown refinished guitar on the video? I hope it will be refinished one day soon.
Your buddy with the black refinish Tele… Was it Brad Blue Flower? 😂
Great info as usual, thank you so much. I have both the MIJ Fender Pink Paisley ‘69 RI and a Tokai Breezysound Tele Blue Flower, both are nice guitars with the Blue Flower neck better fitting my fingers. You scared me a bit that paper often wears out, a thing I didn’t know about, so I’ll stop taking them to gigs and only use them at home! 😂
Only the originals from 1968/69 are fragile
Just watched the Zak Kuhn interview with Brad and said I wanted a long form video about Brad getting that guitar of his. The Blue Unicorn Tele.
It will come
Great video !
I’m telling ya Zac can tell a good story. Cheers 🍻
The bump in Strat popularity in the UK would also have been helped by the lifting of the post war import embargo.. Prior to that US made guitars were very hard to come by in the UK, hence the popularity of brands like Burns, Watkins, Hofner etc..
I have a complete all original hardware and case pink paisley in great shape. So I don’t take out on gigs anymore, haven’t in many years but it also has a sound I can’t match with any other tele I’ve tried. Do you think the finish has something to do with the sound
What's the opening piece played on the blue flower Tele? I know that melody!
Great episode - thanks! Have always wondered how these came to be.
That piece you played at the beginning - was that your composition? Sounds familiar but can't place it.
Working on a riff
I enjoyed today's episode.
Thanks, Barry!
Top job Zac 👍
I remember when these and the pinks came out ... they caused quite a stir. Then and now, I actually prefer the BLUES!
I remember at Ace Music they were trying to sale Telecaster Bass for $200. Who knew.
It bothers me the Fender reissues have so little of the "paper" finish on them. The edges of blue or pink start way to early on the front and rear. Would love to add a blue floral to the collection, but the reissues don't look right. Cost saving method I suppose, but I am the proud owner of an Early Crook Custom Pink Paisley that looks amazing!
They had one for sale in the 80's at a store across the street from Manny's in NYC called We Buy Guitars for a couple of hundred bucks. I really wanted to buy it but I couldn't come up with the money. Oh well.
I don’t know that I agree that ‘WE’ haven’t figured out how to recreate it. Bill Crook has gotten it as close to perfect as you can get without buying it straight from Borden chemical. He has definitely taken the time.
My dream guitar. I have a reissue Tele and Strat, but they just don't look like the original. Would love to find someone that can copy the original pattern.
Cool story- thank you!
I bought one of these in 1968 at Washington Music Center. It was great until the finish started cracking and then curling up.
How long did it take before the finish started cracking?
@@telecaster7855 It was such a long, long time ago, Tele. I guess it was a year or two, perhaps three years after I bought it. I remember it starting cracking, at first. After a while, the cracks kind of cross-hatched and the finish just started peeling up. I remember it as being a pretty thick polly over a foil of some sort. It was such a beautiful guitar.. It was so bad I ended up sanding all of it off. After all of these years, I have the old beat up case I bought it with, which I've used for my 74 Strat.
So as often happened to guitars back then, many were deflowered!😂
Would these have been more difficult to do things like pickup/electronics upgrades? Does the paper cover the cavities?
They are just like a regular Tele without the wiring chan of a 1969-1981
I have a Fender Japan blue floral tele. I love it, one of my favorites! I've always been curious about the history and building techniques. Thanks Zac for doing this! A real treat!
Hey Zac - is the left side of the VS XO an ODR1/Open Road?
yes
Have you ever checked out Daves Guitars in LaCrosse, WI? Vintage Tele heaven. Also I love the Jesus sticker. Big love from KY!
Great video of Waylon doing me and Bobby McGee the guitar player in the background is playing one the video is probably from the 60 or 70s how about doing a video on the Waylon telecaster love your videos
You mention Tele sales dropping off in the early ‘60s and picking up again in 1966. That was probably due to one guy-Mike Bloomfield. When he first came to prominence around 1965 with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and then with Bob Dylan, he was playing a Tele. I think a lot of rock guys, of which I was one back then, got interested in Teles as a guitar for rock and blues virtuosos. Jeff Beck was playing one too. Regarding Blue Floral and Pink Paisley Teles, I graduated high school in ‘68, the year those came out, and growing up as a hippie-in-the-making in San Francisco, I thought they were goofy, and an example of Corporate America trying to be cool. Well, I was 18…At some point, I got to thinking the Pink Paisley was OK, probably because of James Burton, but in the early ‘70s I was still a Gibson player. I got my first Tele new in 1974, sunburst with a maple neck, and really didn’t give it a chance-it was so different than the Les Paul I’d been playing, and I traded it in on a new Strat. Later in ‘74, I got a ‘59 Tele and realized how great they can be. Loved Teles ever since, and when I started playing country, I had the right guitar for the job. But I’ve never owned a Paisley one, although I wouldn’t turn one down!
I have a tale of a sparkle silver '68 Tele I butchered that was resurrected to its original glory via a Marty Bell sparkle silver refinished '68 Blue Floral body. Before you call the cops, the '68 Blue Floral's body had deteriorated to the point the frustrated owner had its body refinished in Lake Placid blue. The original sparkle silver body of my '68 had been stripped to bare wood in the early 70s, routed for a humbucker and basically beaten to crap. I finally gave it away and replaced it with a Warmoth (still have it as basis for a Partscaster). To honor the sadly deceased original owner of the '68 sparkle silver, from whom I'd traded for it in '73, I decided to restore the guitar to its original condition. Number one I needed an original EARLY '68 body with the wire channel and recessed ferrules, which is what the Feb '68 spatrkle silver had. The refined Blue Floral body was for sale on Ebay and filled the bill. Marty did a stupendous job of the finish and the guitar is now all '68, just not the '68 that left the factory. Hey, that body needed a good home! The body came to me with the heavy tape over the wire channel intact, though it was removed to do the sparkle silver refin. It also came with the original clear Blue Floral pickguard, though it's in pretty bad condition.
12:34 “Buddy of mine” who just got back from the car wash to remove the Mud on the Tires of his pickup no doubt. Hee hee.
Fun video Zac!
Great episode! Lots of new info I haven't heard before.
My sheet of vintage cling-foil is dimpled rather than "weaved" let's say, like the paisley stuff. Truly a unique product!
I like your "Scandinavian" T-shirt. I live in Sweden.
I love Sweden!
@@AskZac I live in Stockholm, Sweden.
Marketed to the flower power hippies who generally had no money.😊
“Would you pay $460 extra for”YES
So is the guitar yours or your "buddy's" guitar
Buddy's
@@AskZac I’m bet it plays like a dream
I didn’t buy one for $175 and I still kick myself for it 😢
if this was purple i'd sell my gold paisley les paul for it
Who pays more money for the guitar with a different color. Really. Look at all the people who think it's a good idea to pay thousands more for a Gibson LP Murphy Lab. Hey guy's I have some new cars that look like they have a couple hundred thousand miles on to sell you for way more than a perfect new one.
kinda an apples to oranges comparison imo. probably just me but i want my car to look new but my guitars and jeans to look old! lol 🤷♂️
Inflation. from 1968 to 2024. That's a $50. difference. According to the media, It's a 1 Billion dollar difference.
Ive never liked the finish on those guitars. Its a pretty poor quality finish
Personally. I would have went for the blonde. I would have saved $1 Billion dollars in 2024 money, and had a prettier guitar.🤣
Man this cat is always awesome