1954 Paul BIGSBY custom built GUITAR - Mint

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 25 Jul 2005 10:34 pm

You Bigsby fans will get a kick out of this. It’s on eBay now. I have nothing to do with this auction… I wish I did! Before you get your checkbook out… the opening bid is $330,000 !! I wonder how he came up with that number?

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Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 26 Jul 2005 5:38 am

I think he got his comma in the wrong place: maybe $330 or even $3300. I never even heard of the player it was made for.

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Keith Cordell · Post by **Keith Cordell** » 26 Jul 2005 6:02 am

He'll get a big chunk for it, there are very few of them around outside of museums. but he won't get that much...

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Jon Zimmerman · Post by **Jon Zimmerman** » 26 Jul 2005 7:15 am

--Well, the Sept. issue of Vintage Guit. Rag (w/Brian Setzer on cover) lists in "price guide" a 1951 Bigsby solid body as having a value of betw. 20-24 thou.$$--(depending on condition) -a conservative guess, I imagine. I don't see any bidders falling over themselves to get this one,--unless they live in a certain West African nation...maybe this guy wants to move out to the hot So. Cal. real estate frenzy and n
eeds a down payment(!)

Jon Zimmerman · Post by **Jon Zimmerman** » 26 Jul 2005 7:59 am

Sure am a sucker for that birdseye--Bigsby was masterful, a true artisan of functional forms; wonder why more copies of these aren't out in general usage. Seller has a mainline buisness of aquarium pumps(?)--My impression is --he considers himself the biggest piranha in the coy pond.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 26 Jul 2005 8:23 am

I agree. He's wasting his time listing it at that price. According to the current VGMag price guide it's worth 18K to 25K in excellent cond. This one is probably worth a bit more because it's mint and has documentation. I wonder how it plays?[This message was edited by Doug Beaumier on 26 July 2005 at 09:25 AM.]

George Manno · Post by **George Manno** » 26 Jul 2005 8:39 am

The wife said no! go figure

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 26 Jul 2005 8:41 am

As I learned in a recent post about a Strat for sale:

Even if it doesn't sell, eBay will charge a listing fee based on the reserve price.

Paul Warnik · Post by **Paul Warnik** » 26 Jul 2005 9:57 am

Some of you may recall the double neck guitar/mando that was made by Bigsby for Grady Martin-It has been featured on the cover of Vintage Guitar Magazine and was formerly part of the Chinery Collection-Well before the late Scott Chinery got it I was contacted by Mr.George Gruhn (the seller) and offered the guitar-the price then was $62,500 That was the highest price I had ever heard of on a Bigsby made instrument-until this one!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 26 Jul 2005 10:47 am

How much you wanna bet he gets an email from somebody offering to pay for it with a third party check in the amount of $96,700, and all he has to do is mail him the guitar and a check for the balance due...

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 28 Jul 2005 2:16 pm

I can't remember whether it was Joe Maphis or Merle Travis, but one of them mentioned in an interview that his Bigsby guitar looked a lot better than it played.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 28 Jul 2005 4:13 pm

At this price, I don't think this guy has any intention of selling it - he's just showing off ....

Jussi Huhtakangas · Post by **Jussi Huhtakangas** » 31 Jul 2005 1:02 am

A-ha, finally pictures of the "Luke-guitar", I wonder who he was. This was one of the mystery guitars among the Bigsby instruments until now. Despite of the mint condition I don't think any guitar, except the ones with serious celebrity factor, will bring that much. Even the tear drop D'Angelico in time when Scott Chinery bought it was considerably less ( and that one sold through Mandolin Bros

) In any case, I'm glad to see this guitar surface for history's sake.