Fancy Cliff's old Gibson J-45?
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Fancy Cliff's old Gibson J-45?
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Posted: 13 May 2015, 15:41Re: Fancy Cliff's old Gibson J-45?
Posted: 13 May 2015, 15:45That would be a great piece of history to own! I won't bid on it, I guess the price will go way up.
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Posted: 13 May 2015, 16:44iefje wrote:That would be a great piece of history to own! I won't bid on it, I guess the price will go way up.
The price won't go anywhere, it's Buy It Now £11,000
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Posted: 13 May 2015, 17:17Free P+P 
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Posted: 13 May 2015, 18:13Open to offers as well. 
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Posted: 13 May 2015, 18:18To me it's worth the price of an old Gibson J-45, the connection with him holds no value for me at all. Now if it had been Elvis's . . . . . . . .
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Posted: 13 May 2015, 19:51I had the pleasure to meet George Gruhn of Gruhns Guitars in Nashville some ten years ago. George offered to me an Elvis pre-owned acoustic guitar. He had it stored on an upper floor level in his shop building. I refused politely with a "thank you, but no thank you". I didn`t even ask for the price, I just knew immediately that it would have been out of my financial reach anyway. No doubt it was the genuine thing.
Sure, Elvis owned a sunburst J-45, but I just wonder how many guitars he gave as gifts to the "Memphis Mafia" gang. Maybe some of these are on the market now being classified as a pre- Elvis guitar ?
cheers Pol
Sure, Elvis owned a sunburst J-45, but I just wonder how many guitars he gave as gifts to the "Memphis Mafia" gang. Maybe some of these are on the market now being classified as a pre- Elvis guitar ?
cheers Pol
Re: Fancy Cliff's old Gibson J-45?
Posted: 14 May 2015, 12:53Bruce plays a guitar very similar to this on stage during the Cliff 1974 tour (at least it looks like it from the photos). I wonder if it's the same one? That would make it a bit more valuable, eh?
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Posted: 14 May 2015, 14:43I guess Bruce and Hank will have had a play or two on this as it would have been around when they were doing any Cliff stuff, it's just a shame it wasn't looked after better.
Re: Fancy Cliff's old Gibson J-45?
Posted: 14 May 2015, 22:18Dreadnought (Martin)-shaped Gibson J45s and J50s (dating roughly from the second half of the sixties to the mid-1970s) are not highly-rated by guitar aficionados.
Unless the Cliff Richard connection is much more valuable than I suspect, that's a £750 guitar on eBay.
And I wouldn't buy it at all. As far as I and most guitar fanciers are concerned, the square-shoulder J-45/J-50 are not valid versions of the model. The only correct version is the proper round-shoulder shape. It's like block markers on a Jaguar, the bullet in a Strat headstock or a Tilt-Nek on a Jazz Bass. Not worthless, but certainly not "classic".
Unless the Cliff Richard connection is much more valuable than I suspect, that's a £750 guitar on eBay.
And I wouldn't buy it at all. As far as I and most guitar fanciers are concerned, the square-shoulder J-45/J-50 are not valid versions of the model. The only correct version is the proper round-shoulder shape. It's like block markers on a Jaguar, the bullet in a Strat headstock or a Tilt-Nek on a Jazz Bass. Not worthless, but certainly not "classic".