What is the value of this guitar?

chupacabra

Hello, my friend and fellow band member has a Washburn Dime Culprit with original floyd rose and dime buckers in both bridge and neck, the scratch plate is also personally signed by Dimebag himself back in the late 90's, I just want to know what is a reasonable price to expect for this guitar. Thanks.

Nehpets

100

feylya

Care to back that up with any information?

Steoob

Nehpets wrote:

100

lol

david

What did it retail at unsigned/new? Were the Seymour Duncans stock pickups? I'd say you'd get the RRP plus 5-10% for it should you ebay it seeing as Dime is dead and all. I'd say hold onto it for a few more years, it wont lose value

The_g-man

http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data4/Washburn/The_Culprit-1.html

Voodu Child

Youd want a photograph of Dimebag signing the guitar, otherwise the signature isnt worth a bean....

Personally, i doubt the guitar would be worth any more than 2/3 of its new price. Its just a second hand washburn, the Dimebag connection doesnt make it any more valueable

Patricide

Actually timmy it was signed in 2002, 2003. It should only go up in value imo for the following reasons.

1.signed by dime and hes dead.
2.has the same spec as a 1200$ guitar(buzz feintin, 18:1 grovers, dimebucker etc.)
3.Its an extremely rare guitar. Finding One anywhere is hard.
4.To my knowlege it was oroiginally a prototype for a new dime style guitar before he switched to dean, there was somthing like only 5/600 made in 03 or ever, but i could be very wrong on that one.
5.Comes with a form fitted hardshell, well try finding a case for the thing.

Its cause of all those reasons i could see it goingup in price but moynihan still thinks its worth a lot more than it is imo.

Voodu Child

It would be lovely if it did go up in price (lord knows we'd all love money for nothing), but unfortunately -
1) Dime would have signed thousands upon thousands of guitars. Plus, without a photo of him signing it, its just a scribble on the guitar.
2) Good stuff, that means it is a good guitar, but nothing else.
3 & 4) 5 or 600 isnt a particularly rare guitar.
5) Good stuff again, but why would it mean it has gone up in value????

Nah, i still reckon if its a good guitar, then hang onto it, and play it, and enjoy it. Dont count on it being worth more next year than it is today.

white_falcon

I believe I am quite a bit more qualified than a fair amount of the people here. (I'm sure this statement will get a lot a people rowdy now but I really couldnt care) Dude you can make a lot of money from this guitar. First of all put it up on Ebay, and put a reserve price of about $1000 - just to see what people will go up to. Personally I believe that there are a large number of Dimebag Darrell fans out there who all play guitar, and the large majority of them would be insane enough to pay this amount for the guitar.
It may rise in value - all the guitars of deceased famous people generally do, but its price will have been at its peak at the time of his death.
Anyhoo, try putting it up on Ebay.com, because in my personal experience the Americans will always pay a lot more (although in dollars) for a number of things including valuable guitars

feylya

white_falcon wrote:

I believe I am quite a bit more qualified than a fair amount of the people here.

Would you care to explain?

white_falcon

Play in a band, have a BA in Music, worked in a musical instrument store, collect guitars and other instruments, repair guitars, teach guitar and piano, built a couple of guitars aswell. Live for guitar...thats all i suppose

lee_baby_simms

I eat guitars.

Patricide

weel its not mine, or chupacabra's its a guy in our bands, might just put it up with a super high reserve and then see what people go for, end of the day itd be free and wed get a rough estimate right?

John

I am a guitar

Karl Hungus

John2 wrote:

I am a guitar

Can I flutter your tremelo arm?

feylya

white_falcon wrote:

Play in a band, have a BA in Music, worked in a musical instrument store, collect guitars and other instruments, repair guitars, teach guitar and piano, built a couple of guitars aswell. Live for guitar...thats all i suppose

Sorry, but that doesn't qualify you to toss claim you're better than everyone on this forum, especially on your third post. Reel back the ego back a wee bit and I'm sure we'll all get along

Karl Hungus

feylya wrote:

Sorry, but that doesn't qualify you to toss claim you're better than everyone on this forum, especially on your third post. Reel back the ego back a wee bit and I'm sure we'll all get along

In fairness Fey, he didn't say that at all.

feylya

The "quite a bit more qualified than a fair amount of the people here" for someone on his third post is fairly "holier than thou" in my book especially when followed by "I'm sure this statement will get a lot a people rowdy now but I really couldnt care". Just stinks of ego imo and I don't like it.

John

Karl Hungus wrote:

Can I flutter your tremelo arm?

Yes but hands off the tone knob

Karl Hungus

Certainly, it is holier than though, and it definetly stinks of ego, but come on. We all know that nobody here comes close to me for musical instrument knowledge and overall talent, so his statement is redundant. I don't feel the need to challenge his statement because I know I'm better than everyone.

feylya

Karl Hungus banned for 2 weeks for general muppetry




:v:

Karl Hungus

feylya wrote:

Karl Hungus banned for 2 weeks for general muppetry




:v:

See? I'm so much better than everyone else that even bans don't work on me. All I have to do is whip out my guitar and play so fast that time warps around me, and I've served my entire 2 weeks ban in 5 minutes flat.

In seriousness though, I think putting the guitar on ebay with a decent reserve is the best bet, and some very sound advice.

Steoob

Patricide wrote:

weel its not mine, or chupacabra's its a guy in our bands, might just put it up with a super high reserve and then see what people go for, end of the day itd be free and wed get a rough estimate right?

im sure its very much so against the rules to put up the guitar without intending to sell it.. what if someone bids over the reserve?

EDIT: o and its not free theres a listing charge and you need to signup with a credit card to vefiry your identity.. its quite homo sexual

feylya

Put a $3000 reserve on it. If you get over that, well...

John

There's a charge for putting a reserve on if I remember correctly

EDIT: 2% of the reserve up to €7000 and over €7000 is €140. You don't get it back if it doesn't sell (obviously to deter you from putting an insane reserve on to see how high bidding would go)

white_falcon

I take my statement back everyone. Thinking about it again, it did kind of sound a little bit egotistic, so I would like to apologise for being a bit of a (tone) knob.

feylya

Bonus points for the pun. Welcome to the forum.

It wasn't me!

Would hae thought the pun would ahve earned a ban myself...

John

It wasn't me! wrote:

Would hae thought the pun would ahve earned a ban myself...

Actually for every good pun you make, Doctor J gives you a guitar from his secret underground bunker.

It wasn't me!

You still hoping to someday make a good one then?

lee_baby_simms

feylya wrote:

Karl Hungus banned for 2 weeks for general muppetry

Woah, thats a little harsh.

Any fan of Chuck Shuldiner is a fan of mine.

Karl Hungus

I'm a fan of Lee Baby Simms?

lee_baby_simms

Exactly.

ibanezjem

I was thinkin of purchasing a dean from heck (lightning bolt) there a while back and was absolutely discussed at the quality of the replica they (dean) had created as a signaure model. For €5000 (Perfect pitch) the guitar was completely different to the original Dean from Heck.
From the Neck to the Spray job..complete kak in a can. For a company that sells professional guitars surely they would have come up with technicians/artists to get the series as close to the original as possible..and to put a price tag of over 5k for it. Foook off. A real disappointment in honouring one of the best guitarist heavy metal has ever seen.
So i spent €1500 on the Dimoflame ML. Fantastic to play. Better than my Jem to be honest with the Dimebucker. Although I am looking out for one of his Washburns. So if anyone has one for sale-pm me. The stealth is impossible to find and too much cash for a bloody washburn. In all fairness they are supposed to be sh*te to play but Ive been a Dimefan since i was 12 so....

Patricide

You leave washburn guitars alone, i have yet to play one that hasnt blown me away, If you want my advice get rid of that ghastly dimebucker, get a bill lawrence xl500 flip it upside down and then youl have dimbags real brige setup, it sounds sooo much better.