"Player" guitars make so much more sense. I can't play right on vintage frets and I prefer a flatter than vintage radius on the fretboard. I just traded off a wonderful old Gibson ES-330 because I couldn't play it and it would have diminished the value of the guitar too much to have it refretted. Plus - Who wants to take an instrument worth $20K or $30K to a bar gig?
Gantt
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Originally Posted by nacho
I have just received Broadcaster 0635 from Clive Brown in the UK.
I always thought if I was to keep something, that should be solely clean and original vintage guitars that would be worth collecting. But with these restoration jobs he does...  NOwadays I dont know anymore if it makes sense to collect expensive clean original guitars that you rarely play, or just stick to cheaper genuine great vintage instruments that you can drag around and with a little bit of patience and extra investment can be brought back to what they used to be! I wish I could do both 
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