gull12

Noel Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow. They sorta go together.

a) Always buy your guitars online. You don't have to play them, they're all the same. b) When you go to Guitar Center, always choose the salesperson who's necktie looks like an afterthought, he'll give you a better deal. c) When you buy a guitar from Guitar Center, don't bother to ask for a new one in a box, just grab one off the wall, they're good and broken in. d) Don't buy a cedar-top guitar, they're not worth a damn.

Maybe this will give us an idea: http://www.worldsbiggests.com/2010/05/top-7-most-expensive-guitars-in-world.html

If it was ever sold, it would probably be auctioned through an outfit like Christie's. It would most likely bring several million. It's all according to how big a Willie Nelson fan the bidder is. Also, an instrument so universally famous would be one hell of an investment, even though it looks like a junkyard. I've always been amazed at what beautiful sound Willie gets out of that guitar.

No worries - I just can't figure out why all the Kennedy-assassination-esque conspiracy theories abound vis a vis this thread, other than the fact that some single-post-count troll bait posters have posted here. Maybe somebody is trying to inflate the Carlos stock price before they dump, cut and run... Speaking of Ebay and back in the day - God, I miss the times when ebay didn't sucketh the ass. It used to be a good market place for used musical gear, but it's just a Buy-It-Now overpriced Ebay Power Seller hell now. I hear ya! Ebay used to be a fun thing. Now you have to watch your ass! But it is really strange that all these first-time posters have Carlos guitars, and all of them love them, and all of them......

To the Ebay historian - okay, what ever maybe it was the mid - late 90's. Geez. Guess I'm lying about that too. Nothing personal meant, dude. I was just trying to add something interesting to this thread. It needs it.

Hey - this caught my eye too - I'll have to dig up a photo of my old Carlos acoustic. I got one around 1988 from B&B Music in Delaware, if I recall correctly. It was a spruce top, single cutaway. I ended up putting a Barcus-Berry dot pickup in it. I had to drill out the end pin hole to accomodate the jack. It sounded pretty good but as I recall the top was getting pretty bowed up before I ebay'd it in the early 90's. It was a nice looking guitar too. Ebay started in 1995.

I dunno. Doesn't seem like it would give a troll much satsfaction. If it's not a troll, there certainly a lot of these guitars turning up. I guess it's no surprise. As a cheap Pac-Rim import there's probably thousands in closets and in basements. After 30-40 years it's time Johnny's old guitar goes to the yard sale. Yeah, and they just all decided to join at around the same time and resurrect a thread about Carlos guitars. I figure the chances of that happening are around 1 in 1,345,765,936,009,645,389,177,390,762.1, but yet, here they are. Ah, the whacky world of alcohol and drugs, huh! :lol: