6x9base13 wrote:
MoJo JoJoe wrote:
I'm hedging my bets that PRS Modern Eagle 1 (the original Modern Eagles with Brazzie necks) will be the next '59 burst years from now. Also agree with Bob re anything with Braz. r/w ... maybe even anything with Honduran Mahogany.
Based on the materials used or that PRS is going to be the next fender and you have an example from an era when they still cared about materials design and production ? Not stirring, just curious ?
Materials do play a big part in where I'm coming from (and I'm not just talking about the obvious Braz. neck and Honduras back, but glues, specific part of the tree the tops were sourced from, etc), but the Modern Eagle also represents a period at PRS where production volumes were just about to be stepped up once again; and a new larger factory was to come online within the next few years ... and any time that happens, production becomes less personalised. Take a look at current values of 1985 PRS guitars. Those have appreciated as much because they benefitted from top-notch materials and personalised attention to the builds.
I certainly hope that PRS never goes the Fender route (backwards) from this it's glory years, but if they do I hope that they will also be able to turn things around again like Fender have. IMHO current Fender products are top-notch.
I bought my ME1 with the intention of playing it, but also knowing that it is something special ... special enough for me to want to leave it to my daughter with the hope it will appreciate steeply when I'm long gone. If it were to be a case queen, I'd have probably done better buying a plot of land somewhere and leaving that to her ... but I wanted to play it, love it, sweat on it, so that if it didn't hold a significant financial value after my demise, it would still hold a significant sentimental value for her.
Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
I don't think we'll ever see any modern guitar quite reach the stratospheric heights of the 'bursts, whose value is as much based on perception as rarity (and will continue to appreciate). The vast majority of guitars (even many expensive one) are too mass produced to ever be rare enough. Some of the very high quality, very limited production instruments (Like the Modern Eagle) will probably do very well, but even then, there are possibly to many different guitars that fit that description for any one of them to quite equal the performance of the 'bursts.
Since PRS does not release production information, there can be no certainty, but it is speculated by a group of well-informed and well-connected (at the factory) enthusiasts that around 500 ME1's exist. That's a small enough group to sidestep the "mass production" problem.
That said, the opposite also can apply ... thinking specifically of the many many 50's-60's Strats that were produced and how their values are now. Granted not as stratospheric (punny isn't it) as the LP '59 'bursts.
