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Click on any item to open an email dialogue with me. When I receive your message, I will add a
icon to the item. There will be an icon posted for each person who enters the dialogue on an item. Think of it like the bidders on Ebay. Mouse the icon to see the "ALT text" which will show you exactly what level the discussion has reached. If my text does not appear in a box near your mouse, check the settings in your browser. You are missing a lot of what is happening on the web if you do not have ALT TEXT enabled. When and if we actually reach a mutually acceptable agreement on terms of the sale, I will add a 
icon. But I have already learned the hard way that items are NOT SOLD until the check has cleared into my account. Once it the money part is done and the item ships, it will be marked 
and/or removed from the website.You will immediately notice that nothing on the site is priced. That is because the buyer is ultimately the one who decides if something is valuable enough to justify the purchase. Therefore, I want the prospective buyer to make the call - if you want something, do the research, and make me an offer.
What I am proposing is that I expect the items ought to bring something like 75% - 80% of the "going rate" on Ebay. Send me copies of some recent closing prices from Ebay (or other equally "legitimate" public forum) to support your offer and explain how you want an item shipped, and it's probably yours. Feel free to tell me that the market is crazy and that you don't want to pay 75% of Ebay prices. I might well agree with you! I reserve the right to hold on to things, but the whole point here is to let go.
 Rosewood Classical Guitar. Madrid, Spain, 1963  | Casa A. Fernandez. Brazilian Rosewood body, Engelmann Spruce top, Ebony fingerboard and bridge. Simple clean player's guitar. Very light construction. Powerful lower courses, surprisingly strong G string. Nice rosette, minimalist finish (thin French polish). The wood is not intensely figured compared to the slab-cut rosewood planks I am selling below, but there are no cracks and there is virtually no fret-wear, and very little sign of use. I do not use high tension strings on this guitar. Previous owner was a legend in the Seattle arts community, but not a guitarist. Minor fingernail marks on face. Deserves a much better case. |
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Exquisite Requinto Guitar built in Ecuador in 1983.  |
This Requinto is definitely a "national treasure" level instrument. The top is a red-cedar-like wood. The body and neck are made from the same intense hardwood, which looks a bit like cherry, but is much harder and much denser and although it does not appear to be highly figured in the images, it has that magical translucent inner glow that has a name I can't remember, but if it were stone, it would be called opalescense. The overall construction detail is simply outrageous, even the finish on the inside of the instrument is unbelievable. The construction details, especially the rosette and peghead inlay are probably beyond anything you have ever seen. There are some small cracks in the face and on the back, but they have been stable for the past 7 years - as long as I've owned the guitar. |
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National Resophonic Radiotone Guitar.
 | Built in 5/1994 s/n 437. Won (by me) in the raffle at the Second Annual Port Townsend Country Blues Workshop. Winning tickets are still inside the guitar. Wooden body weighs a ton but the thing has an absolutely fantastic tone and is incredibly loud and rich sounding compared to metal bodied instruments with the same resonator. Came in a great hardshell case that has now been most of the way around the world.   Click either of the MP3 icons to hear me playing my National Guitar in a very minor tuning: ACEACE Click either of the MP3 icons to hear me playing a quickie overdubbed duet between the Requinto and the National Guitar. |
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German violin. |
German violin. Good condition. Early 20th century copy of Stradivarius (even says so on the label inside). Nice instrument in a pretty nice case w/ a rather mediocre bow. It came in an arch-topped wooden coffin-case that I lost long ago. |
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 | Apparently '62 (small headstock) Fender Musicmaster Mildly Hot rodded Electric Guitar. SN 78747 "slab-style" Rosewood fingerboard, 3/4 scale, Orange lacquer respray done in about 1982, vintage brown original Fender case with cool orange fur inside. Currently wired as a 2 knob telecaster w/ 2 "pretty darned old" Strat pickups that had been in my stash for years and years and an old 3-way tele selector switch. Still has the nasty Kluxon Deluxe tuners it came with (quite miraculously I did not ever get around to drilling it for Schaller tuners). No import or aftermarket parts anywhere. Guitar is in presently BACK IN MY HANDS after a many a year on loan to a talented youngster in Portland, Oregon. Two neck plates: the original SN.78747 and the "Fender" stamped replacement You can choose which play you would rather fly. I figure the replacement plate is cheap insurance, like carrying your camera gear in a diaper bag. |
