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They're up over $4,000 now...
That is alot of money but it is a quality guitar. He's such a great man we have to wish him well. Good art isn't cheap. And, it is a great investment. I want one and I don't play. lol! Cathy
NPB_EST.1979 wrote:They're up over $4,000 now...
Nick,
What "The One That Must Be Obeyed" doesn't know, won't hurt her.
The question will be: The JB signature Gigliotti or the JB signature Gibson? Or, should I say: Or both? I'm going to have to get a safe to keep them in and give no one the combination. Otherwise, it might be curtains for the BluesMan, if you know who finds out.
Roy
EXACTLY. I already own two Gibson's, so I'd hope to diversify a little bit. But with the Gigliotti price going up, I'd just assume get another Gibson for less money. They need to stay competitively priced, I know it's a premium custom product, but more sales = more exposure, and more money etc. It was over a $500 jump in price. When before I was certain I was going to order one within two years, I think this new price just scared me away.
I'm willing to bet that a Gibson JB Les Paul will be around 4 grand also. A '58 VOS re-issue alone is 3 grand (and worth every penny I might add).
I'm happy for my friend Pat. He's been working really hard at this for years, and hopefully this reflects an increase in demand!
I'm happy for my friend Pat. He's been working really hard at this for years, and hopefully this reflects an increase in demand!
I'm certain it does Stu! His guitars capture imaginations immediately ON SIGHT, let alone on playing (which also has captured many imaginations when I do my Street Team person-to-person work from one of the Gigliotti featured tunes playing back without any video)!!! "What guitar IS that"?!!! Or, alternatively, "What kind of guitar is THAT"?!!! By the way, this is how friendship works wonders, lonely world dwellers out there!!!
Rock On & Keep the Faith My Friends,
Rocket
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I'm not paying 4000 bucks for a guitar, no matter how nice it is. My guitars are tone monsters and I probably have only $2000 all together put in on them (I have four). I'm sure they're amazing guitars (I mean after all, Joe plays them) but I just can't see paying that much for a guitar. My limit tops out at 1000.
But, that's the cool thing, I don't have to. 
I'm not paying 4000 bucks for a guitar, no matter how nice it is. My guitars are tone monsters and I probably have only $2000 all together put in on them (I have four). I'm sure they're amazing guitars (I mean after all, Joe plays them) but I just can't see paying that much for a guitar. My limit tops out at 1000.
But, that's the cool thing, I don't have to.
I'm once again with you Deez. To me it's not wise to buy a guitar like the Gigliotti just because Joe plays it, or Anthony Gomes poses with one on his CD cover, or just because you can afford it...UNLESS my pay-to-play ratio was high or my practice sessions were sounding so very good enough to rationalize the "investment"...They are investments in quality highly playable professional instruments. Can't see status for status sake. A great sounding guitar at a decent price should (and is) always be an option to be looked at before busting a budget, even if you don't stick to one. But Patrick's guitars invite stepping up, hate to use cliches but have to here, the next level...
Rock On & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
"I'm not paying 4000 bucks for a guitar, no matter how nice it is. My guitars are tone monsters and I probably have only $2000 all together put in on them (I have four). I'm sure they're amazing guitars (I mean after all, Joe plays them) but I just can't see paying that much for a guitar. My limit tops out at 1000.
But, that's the cool thing, I don't have to.
Very understandable...there's a market for everything. Just like high-end cars, they're not for everyone.
I suspect there's a few people kicking themselves for not spending a few hundred bucks on an old Les Paul back in the day, that are worth 5-figures now. Not to say that will happen with Gigliotti guitars, but when Pat retires or if he is ever bought out by a big name guitar company...well owning a vintage Gigliotti will be money in the bank.
Deezer wrote:I'm not paying 4000 bucks for a guitar, no matter how nice it is. My guitars are tone monsters and I probably have only $2000 all together put in on them (I have four). I'm sure they're amazing guitars (I mean after all, Joe plays them) but I just can't see paying that much for a guitar. My limit tops out at 1000.
But, that's the cool thing, I don't have to.
I'm once again with you Deez. To me it's not wise to buy a guitar like the Gigliotti just because Joe plays it, or Anthony Gomes poses with one on his CD cover, or just because you can afford it...UNLESS my pay-to-play ratio was high or my practice sessions were sounding so very good enough to rationalize the "investment"...They are investments in quality highly playable professional instruments. Can't see status for status sake. A great sounding guitar at a decent price should (and is) always be an option to be looked at before busting a budget, even if you don't stick to one. But Patrick's guitars invite stepping up, hate to use cliches but have to here, the next level...
Rock On & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
Besides, it seems like the greatest guitars were actually purchased for very little if anything. Stevie's Number 1 was a trade-in. Clapton's Blackie was a Frankenstein of different Strats. Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein was a hatchet job. Billy Gibbons found Pearly Gates underneath a bed.
She'll kill me. I know she will. I'm gonna come home from work one day and she'll say "what's in the case?" I'll reply "just something that I took to work to have some work done on."......and then she'll see the Gigliotti and smile.....and then I'll tell her how much.....and she'll say "the price has gone up, you should've bought one ages ago instead of the Huber".....and then she'll kill me.
Rocket wrote:Deezer wrote:I'm not paying 4000 bucks for a guitar, no matter how nice it is. My guitars are tone monsters and I probably have only $2000 all together put in on them (I have four). I'm sure they're amazing guitars (I mean after all, Joe plays them) but I just can't see paying that much for a guitar. My limit tops out at 1000.
But, that's the cool thing, I don't have to.
I'm once again with you Deez. To me it's not wise to buy a guitar like the Gigliotti just because Joe plays it, or Anthony Gomes poses with one on his CD cover, or just because you can afford it...UNLESS my pay-to-play ratio was high or my practice sessions were sounding so very good enough to rationalize the "investment"...They are investments in quality highly playable professional instruments. Can't see status for status sake. A great sounding guitar at a decent price should (and is) always be an option to be looked at before busting a budget, even if you don't stick to one. But Patrick's guitars invite stepping up, hate to use cliches but have to here, the next level...
Rock On & Keep the Faith,
RocketBesides, it seems like the greatest guitars were actually purchased for very little if anything. Stevie's Number 1 was a trade-in. Clapton's Blackie was a Frankenstein of different Strats. Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein was a hatchet job. Billy Gibbons found Pearly Gates underneath a bed.
Don't forget Bo Diddley's cigar box or especially Les Paul's "The Log", still a benchmark for him!!!
"Billy Gibbons found a guitar under a BED!?
I wanna know where the heck HE'S been staying!
Billy Gibbons found a guitar under a BED!?
I wanna know where the heck HE'S been staying!
I don't recall the story, but it was something weird like somebody moved out of an apartment or something and left it behind...Not sure of my accuracy at all, but it was something similarly fortuitous...And that's HIS benchmark guitar.!
Rock On & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
"Something to that effect. It was either a friend or somebody else who found it under a bed and gave it to him, or he found it himself. But either way, that's his baby.
I know my main squeeze is a Strat built from kit parts that I recently replaced the neck (All Parts) and the pickups (Jimmie Vaughan TexMex). It plays so good. And the tone is just so bad-A. It was originally my first guitar that my parents bought off ebay for like 100 bucks. I'm very lucky it is this good.
Well Roy, they say that 'you can't take it with you' but I reckon if we turn up at The Pearly Gates holding Gigliottis God is gonna say "Wow!!!!, go back down there and get one for me, I'll warm up the tubes". 
Something to that effect. It was either a friend or somebody else who found it under a bed and gave it to him, or he found it himself. But either way, that's his baby.
I know my main squeeze is a Strat built from kit parts that I recently replaced the neck (All Parts) and the pickups (Jimmie Vaughan TexMex). It plays so good. And the tone is just so bad-A. It was originally my first guitar that my parents bought off ebay for like 100 bucks. I'm very lucky it is this good.
Maybe it's you making it "lucky it's this good" Deezer....Stroll on!
"
I feel very strongly that a Gigliotti Guitar is a very good investment!
Deezer wrote:I'm not paying 4000 bucks for a guitar, no matter how nice it is. My guitars are tone monsters and I probably have only $2000 all together put in on them (I have four). I'm sure they're amazing guitars (I mean after all, Joe plays them) but I just can't see paying that much for a guitar. My limit tops out at 1000.
But, that's the cool thing, I don't have to.
Very understandable...there's a market for everything. Just like high-end cars, they're not for everyone.
I suspect there's a few people kicking themselves for not spending a few hundred bucks on an old Les Paul back in the day, that are worth 5-figures now. Not to say that will happen with Gigliotti guitars, but when Pat retires or if he is ever bought out by a big name guitar company...well owning a vintage Gigliotti will be money in the bank.
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