Help me with this SG

[Col Mustard]

Welcome to ETSG Robfoto...

now that you have confirmed some history with your SG, you should find it easier
to sell. Including as many original parts as possible should also help with this.

Most potential buyers will want to look carefully at the neck, or even consult with a luthier
before making a bid. If the neck can be made straight, then the guitar has value as a player.
If not, then the guitar is like a sculpture that you display in a glass case.

If the neck can be made straight, then new frets can be installed carefully and leveled properly
and the guitar can get out and make music again. The cost to restore the guitar to playing condition
has to be taken into account by both buyer and seller.

So the buyer and the seller must consider all these factors, and then try to agree on a price
which is fair to both. That is the ideal, in my opinion. Where both buyer and seller can agree on
what is fair, and the guitar gets restored and becomes a musical instrument. And the buyer gets
inspired and plays better music too.

I wish you best of luck. After reading the description of the taxes extracted by the government,
I am sure there must be an active underground market for guitars, where people pay cash.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

If I read correctly, Berardo and SG John last posted late July on this guitar. Now Roberto the owner has posted just Tuesday 12/15.
My assumption is that Berardo passed on it and Roberto still has it for sale. I can see how from the photo it could look twisted. But, if the nut was cut so it was higher/thicker on the low E side, would that make it appear twisted from a photo at that viewpoint but really be straight and just need a new nut and setup? Have not even looked at the frets closely, still digesting the scenario here.

All that said, I'd like to see a really good set of pics from all angles, lighting, inside the controls cavity, serial number, even as I do, put up a Local newspaper next to the guitar with the current date on it etc. pics of the case and basically a good selection of pics with all 6 strings on it at 440 tuning tension, feeler guages or straight edges etc to display what the story is.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Maybe I can post a few vids regarding twisted necks to help as well.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

And Dan taking bow out of a Bass neck

 

[ScottMarlowe]

So given that Alex Lifeson that was left in the car on a hot day, is that problem partly becuase the wood wasn't cured properly and as it dried out in the car it twisted? Or is it mostly just that the string tension may not be even on both sides and that pulled it out of true?

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Scott, I suspect it could have been any one of those reasons, both of them, or even potentially the board used to make the neck might have had an inherent twist in the structural makeup it had when it grew in nature. Hard to say for sure, I would guess.

 

[Robfoto]

Scott, I suspect it could have been any one of those reasons, both of them, or even potentially the board used to make the neck might have had an inherent twist in the structural makeup it had when it grew in nature. Hard to say for sure, I would guess.

If I read correctly, Berardo and SG John last posted late July on this guitar. Now Roberto the owner has posted just Tuesday 12/15.
My assumption is that Berardo passed on it and Roberto still has it for sale. I can see how from the photo it could look twisted. But, if the nut was cut so it was higher/thicker on the low E side, would that make it appear twisted from a photo at that viewpoint but really be straight and just need a new nut and setup? Have not even looked at the frets closely, still digesting the scenario here.

All that said, I'd like to see a really good set of pics from all angles, lighting, inside the controls cavity, serial number, even as I do, put up a Local newspaper next to the guitar with the current date on it etc. pics of the case and basically a good selection of pics with all 6 strings on it at 440 tuning tension, feeler guages or straight edges etc to display what the story is.

Chili..

I'm triyng very hard to upload some pictures to put here, but as a jungleman from the NOdeveloping world, I'm obviously struglling with buttons, Links and comands!

As soon as I find some teenager that can resolve this, I show wathever you all request!

Thanks for the help and the pacience!

Uga, buga!

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Robfoto, that would be nice. I know you are new here so maybe I can help too. I point to a few things posted over the years and maybe that will help.

Here is a post on how to post images.

http://www.everythingsg.com/threads/one-method-for-posting-images.19597/