Less than a month old, when is it considered vintage?

[AngelDeVille]

The inspection tag says 3/6/17...

Just got her today!

She came with a brown hard case, with red interior, and was supposed to have a multi tool and a leather strap, but none to be found.

A surprise not listed in the specs are grover locking tuners, it's a good thing I had my first locking tuner experience a couple months ago or I might have been disappointed. (Funny story)

I can't tell if I'm high from the paint fumes or because of the guitar. ..

 

[Didds]

She's a beauty! Can we have some close up pics?

 

[AngelDeVille]

She's a beauty! Can we have some close up pics?

I can't put her down to take pics...

Maybe when the Bigsby gets here....

 

[oldrockfan]

from what I can see... looks great. Lets see a couple more pics so we can all check out the new guitar!

 

[AngelDeVille]

Ok I put her down long enough to snap a few pics.

 

[PelhamSG]

The inspection tag says 3/6/17...

Just got her today!

She came with a brown hard case, with red interior, and was supposed to have a multi tool and a leather strap, but none to be found.

A surprise not listed in the specs are grover locking tuners, it's a good thing I had my first locking tuner experience a couple months ago or I might have been disappointed. (Funny story)

I can't tell if I'm high from the paint fumes or because of the guitar. ..

Congrats!! I have a Pelham Blue SG too (if you couldn't tell by my username lol) Your inspection date was 10 days before mine! Mine says 3/16/17! How cool!!

 

[Didds]

Ok I put her down long enough to snap a few pics.

Holy bajeezis!

 

[DrBGood]

The longer stickers stay on, the longer it takes for it to become a vintage. Every day with the sticker on, subtracts 10 years of vintagism. So if you've had it for 5 days now, it will take 50 more years to get there than a normal guitar.
It's all in the fine print, on your subscription to the SG club.

Nice SG and welcome to da zoo.

 

[Bettyboo]

Three lovely guitars there, but I have to say that the Pelham Blue is spectacular.

 

[Norlin SG]

Just like fine wine, you can consider it "vintage" right now. It is a 2017 vintage just like my lonely SG is a 1978 vintage.

After all the nonsense and misuse about the term "vintage" I looked it up and that's how it's defined.

The term "antique" is a different story. The age of something at some point in time is what makes it an antique.

 

[AngelDeVille]

The longer stickers stay on, the longer it takes for it to become a vintage. Every day with the sticker on, subtracts 10 years of vintagism. So if you've had it for 5 days now, it will take 50 more years to get there than a normal guitar.
It's all in the fine print, on your subscription to the SG club.

Nice SG and welcome to da zoo.

I thought the sticker would make it more valuable, especially in 50 years!

 

[Norlin SG]

Sure. The closser it is to how it was sold, condition, unmoded, stickers etc does add to value.

When I had my SG re-freted, Mike did it in a way that is differed from the factory fret job so the bindings wouldn't have to be remove.

I asked him if it would effect the collectors value of it.

He said well, yes. My reply was good. Anything I can do to to keep it out of the hands of a cork sniffing scumbag collector is fine by me.

That whole collecting thing is just so wrong. If you have a guitar, play the damn thing already. If you are not going to play it, sell it to someone that will.

 

[bwotw]

Congratulations! Looks striking. I'm a big fan of that Bigsby'd Flying V too

 

[AngelDeVille]

Congratulations! Looks striking. I'm a big fan of that Bigsby'd Flying V too

B-B-B-Baby you just ain't seen nothin' yet...

My top 3...



I just need to set the intonation, and I'm good until she acclimates. Then we see if she need an other adjustments.

 

[gball]

She's a beauty! Can we have some close up pics?

This is a somewhat closeup of when I first got mine

Amazing guitar. Very happy with it. Have changed out a few plastics (reflectors, switch tip, TRC) and added a poker chip but otherwise its pretty flawless out of the box and sounds great.

 

[PelhamSG]

Sure. The closser it is to how it was sold, condition, unmoded, stickers etc does add to value.

When I had my SG re-freted, Mike did it in a way that is differed from the factory fret job so the bindings wouldn't have to be remove.

I asked him if it would effect the collectors value of it.

He said well, yes. My reply was good. Anything I can do to to keep it out of the hands of a cork sniffing scumbag collector is fine by me.

That whole collecting thing is just so wrong. If you have a guitar, play the damn thing already. If you are not going to play it, sell it to someone that will.

I agree! I also don't care about resale value, because I have no intention on selling my gear. I want to keep my SG stock, but I modded my Rickenbacker. Bigsby b5 and Bigsby bow tie bridge

 

[Norlin SG]

When I first got my SG, I went through all that modding nonsense. You know, different pickups, brass nut, wiring changes etc. If they had sold an official Tony "Talent Pack" I probably would have bought it so I could sound just like Black Sabbath.

These days, she does have a bone nut and a refret with a good setup. The refret and setup fixed Gibson's mediocre fret work making her about as good as any SG out there. I'd put it against a custom Shop guitar any day of the week.

Even on a new guitar, a professional setup, crown and level should be a given. A good Luthier can find issues the guitar has. You know, those niggling things that drive you nuts and lead to to constantly wondering what really is wrong with this guitar.

I can drop the action to the point that the sustain starts to fade and she still plays awesome with zero fret buzz anywhere on the neck.

 

[AngelDeVille]

I have never been interested in heavy mods on a Gibson.
They seem to be just right as is. Except I can't stand uncovered pickups on them.

The set up is almost complete, I need to flip a couple saddles.

The frets are as nice as I have ever seen, so one less thing to do.

I had to add a penny spacer to the Bigsby spring, but it is perfect.

I have no plans for any wiring or pickup changes. It says it comes with a 57+ bridge, but I suspect it's a classic.

I have some different color pickguards on the way, and I will be switching to speed knobs.

I would like keystone tuners, but I'll only do that if I put these grovers on my V. My V has some shoddy hipshots on it now.

 

[Raiyn]

He said well, yes. My reply was good. Anything I can do to to keep it out of the hands of a cork sniffing scumbag collector is fine by me.

That whole collecting thing is just so wrong. If you have a guitar, play the damn thing already. If you are not going to play it, sell it to someone that will.

I knew I liked ya for a reason!

I have never been interested in heavy mods on a Gibson.
They seem to be just right as is. Except I can't stand uncovered pickups on them.

The set up is almost complete, I need to flip a couple saddles.

The frets are as nice as I have ever seen, so one less thing to do.

I had to add a penny spacer to the Bigsby spring, but it is perfect.

I have no plans for any wiring or pickup changes. It says it comes with a 57+ bridge, but I suspect it's a classic.

I have some different color pickguards on the way, and I will be switching to speed knobs.

I would like keystone tuners, but I'll only do that if I put these grovers on my V. My V has some shoddy hipshots on it now.

Shoddy?
The Hipshot lockers I installed on my G400 have been nothing short of awesome.

Just in case.....

The one thing I do differently, is once the mechanism is clamped down, I bend the string 90° perpendicular to the headstock. Does it make a difference? Probably not, just a mashup of styles that works for me. Also, yes he is suspending the guitar by the string he's installing. I do mine seated with the guitar an inch or so off my feet so I can catch it in the highly unlikely event something went wrong.

 

[AngelDeVille]

One of hipshots is broken and the PO painted them....