i just don't get it. it's just the pick guard. no bearing on the instrument at all.

don't get me wrong, i'm glad you got the dough, i just don't understand. maybe if it was infi.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> The 50's guards go for up to $2k. These are the same as the 50's guards. I had a hard time with it at first as well, but look at it this way (not that it really makes sense).

You've got an original '56 Gold Top. Its worth $50,000 in all original condition. Unfortunately, you're missing the pickguard because some [censored] (such as myself) took the guard off after they bought it and its long gone now. This makes your guitar worth about $45,000, since its no longer all original. Why not spend a couple of grand to get an original vintage guard? Not very many of them out there, really - and the guys w/ 50's LP's aren't about to strip theirs. What do you have for options? Well, in the end of '68 they reintroduced the Les Paul - they used those guards in late '68 and early '69 - these guitars are worth far less than the 50's LP's, so you'll have a much easier time talking one of them out of a pickguard, especially since the guard could pay for 10-40% of the cost of the guitar (depending on condition).

My guitar, had it been all original, would fetch about $15,000. Hardly anything on the thing is original other than the pickguard, so I'm not worried about having parted with it! It has no effect on the overall value of my axe, but paid for over 1/3 of it!

Say like this original '54 GT was missing its guard. Well worth $1,000 to get her back to "original" condition!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srcGpD9vd1U

Not to mention, if you have the kind of cash where you're shelling out $20-50,000 on a guitar, an extra $1k isn't that big of a deal... The market drives the value of these seemingly worthless pieces of plastic, thats for sure!

this guy's amp?

Some little Fender tube combo. Sounds good, huh?

yeah. he's good.

i've been squeezin in the acoustic more lately. also listening to music with lyrics.

there's a shredder's contest from dean guitars. thinkin of entering.

You absolutely should enter - you're the man when it comes to shredding!

That guy is/was Sean Costello - he died a few months ago of an overdose at age 28. I've been listening to him a lot lately - too bad he had to be a dumbass about his drug use, huh? We would have been set with great new blues music for the rest of our lives, eh? Oh well...

Here he is doing an Al Green cover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3tLMQX4Izw

i can't compete with some of the kids shredding on youtube. at least i'll have the dimebolt, might win some points that way. i'll have the exotica in the shot, too.

60 seconds of shred. gotta pull out all my best stuff.

Be sure to post a link to it here when you're finished!

nothin like blues and hot dogs.

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Blues and Jerky for me right now...