Q&A with Mike #19 | ATB Guitars

Buy one you really want to play. Forget about investment. You forget it’s vintage and get true value out of it.

To further expand on your "Vintage market dying?" answer, it's shops like you with a YouTube presence succeed. This is the new advertising/marketing strategy and is probably a good part of your success. Congrats and I look forward to the next video...

For anyone interested, the Dirty/Royal Albert Burst is the one Joe used to play "Mind's Eye" and several other songs in the "Tales of Time" live show. It's the one with a patch of red by the rear strap button, zebras and a switch on the pickguard

Have you also loved a guitar where your initial impression wasn't that immediate "gelling" as you said here? A guitar where you weren't sure about at first but which grew on you as you played it and then became "home"? Cheers, love these Q&As!

Was “Chris Shifflet Guitar YouTuber” tongue-in-cheek?” The Foo Fighters like him a lot…mostly onstage with them.

Always very interesting to hear your thoughts on the different aspects of the vintage guitar market - essential viewing!

Chris Shifflet plays in the Foo Fighters!

Great Q&A. Always appreciate your perspective.

Yes, maple cap Teles are great. But don't tell anyone.

The vintage guitar market will never die - it will just grow old(er)!

Hi Mike. Great informative vid, as ever. I have a new question for you. When does a refin become a partscaster? One is worth a fraction of the other. Thanks Steve

Sadly such as the Kate Bush solo guitar the mindless bids pushing super inflated prices out of the ordinary musicians price range. I have a ‘74 hardtail sunburst which I brought at book price has the wear and vintage sounds lacking in modern guitars and ‘vintage road worn’ master builds. My advice always buy original periods if you can regardless of whether folks agree or disagree on ‘70s Fender quality. Best decision I ever made.

part of it is younger players are priced out so do t have the emotional connection and players in general don’t need them as the better tone argument is done people have wised up to that it’s stamp collecting at this point

The vintage guitar market is not dying, but it is very hard these days to acquire good pieces without any issues. People seem to hold on because they can see the prices are going up and up, so there is no point for them selling off their treasures. They understand the guitars are a great investment and keep them. This will change however when another economic crisis hits and dollar value goes down, just like it took place in 2008. Hope not to see this coming though.

Hate the phrase “ buying a guitar as an investment “ . The vintage guitar market is a bit scary for me as I don’t know enough about fretwear ,original parts , refinished etc and how that reflects on pricing . The only group of vintage guitars I’m interested in are 70s Strats as a friend had one around the time we left school and I’ve never played better . 70s Strats have been criticised for big headstock , the neckplate yet they seem to be going up in price at an alarming rate . Finding a dealer you can trust with vintage gear isn’t easy , as Joe Bonamassa refers to some as bullsharks!

Is the vintage guitar market dying? Silly question as he's hardly going to say yes.

Come on Chris is a guitarist turned occasional YouTuber. Not many bigger guitar bands than the foo fighters.

gibson more concerned about litigation than making a decent guitar

So you're bowing to Gibson? Wow! I mean I love Gibson and I'm probably a fan boy but there's a limit to some things.

The Wall street of guitars does exists, look at rich asians and russians! Its all about money times market, sorry for us...... 🤢