So what IS vintage?
Feeling discombobulated from too much browsing on E-Bay, and highly frustrated with ignorance passing as acceptance, and, from everything I know and from having read (all the Martin Books, all the...
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I agree - with a qualifier..... Being an old guy, and science / math oriented, I define vintage as "age 40 years or older"; antique as "age 100 years or older". So to me, as of today, Martins made in...
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Justa Picker,Funny you should ask what "vintage" is... I did the same thing a year ago. Here's the thread:pub55.ezboard.com/ftheuno...=145.topicIt'll be intersting to see what kind of responses you...
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For the most part, vintage is a catchy marketing term devoid of any substantive meaning.I have viewed the site Justa Picker alludes to a few years ago, great stuff, but saying 1969 equals vintage is...
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Points taken guys and thanks.(I just needed to blow off some steam.) E-bay has a tendancy to make me feel like going postal - but blowing away the manipulators of the vintage Martin market who just...
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just look at the wine industry.I prefer the terms "old" or "new". "My old D-35". It's like when the health food industry coined the term "organic". Dirt is organic, but I prefer not to eat it. I don't...
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Don,Be very careful with that comparison, particularly in light of SveaD35's reference to wine.There's vintage and there's vinegar....haven't quite figured it out yet (except that Martins are the...
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Great word for a wine, often overrated when speaking of guitars...I use for that "Gruhn's guide to vintage guitars". The book is more than accurate.
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I like the references to the wine industry's use of the word "vintage", which is simply the year the wine was produced. All our guitars have a vintage, but the implied value associated with the...
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