mystixboi1
Kick Henry Jackassowski
So what are you going to do?
early '80s Carvin DC400 KOA....
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Grave Bomber
Ghoulish Anomaly
I'd straight up pass. Getting a great deal on a old carvin isn't difficult, you just have to be patient. They've appreciated past what they used too, and that's valid being that they used to appreciate nothing for the quality, but don't pounce just cause it's there and you have cash. That's my opinion anyway. Chris of chris guitars gets these in now and then and they never top 800. He's very accurate on market value.
Jbird
Kick Henry Jackassowski
I'm about to head out on a road trip. Not sure if I'll buy the GC one even if I really like it, I need to do alot of stuff around the house this year.
I need a couple of trees down in my yard, by licensed cutters, as they are close to my house/neighbor's house, need my soffet (sp?) on my house stripped and refinished, then covered in aluminum, need my house resided....*sigh*
We have alot of overtime coming up where I work though, and I have dough in the bank.....if I really like it....
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
I think this really makes your case against it, even if that wasn't your intention. The DC style that you have is the rarer guitar, as they obviously weren't selling enough of them to keep them in production. At http://www.carvinmuseum.com/ they have old catalogs and the DC160s were always higher priced than the DC200s, it was the flagship until they dropped it and created the DC400, which I never cared for. The tweak they did to the body at the end of the '80s ended my interest in the offset DC models.
To my earlier post, the $600-700 asking price for the non-koa DC200s is also too much for an uncollectible guitar.
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
If you really like it, offer then $700 cash. IF you really like it.
aliensporebomb
Fretted instrument fan
Some older Carvins seem to be worth more than others - a mostly Koa guitar is going to be a bigger deal eventually because Koa is simply scarcer these days.
It does appear that some of the more elaborate recent Carvin models are selling for more used.
The biggest price drops I saw were in the height of the alternative rock days when the hockey headstock Carvins were selling used for $200-$400 merely because a shred guitar wasn't fashionable anymore.
But that was 20 years ago and we're seeing more people wanting to "relive" those days so some of those guitars are showing up and selling for higher prices now when they couldn't raise cab fare in say 1993-1994.
The point is 'if you want to reach for it and play it all of the time that's the guitar for you'.
It does appear that some of the more elaborate recent Carvin models are selling for more used.
The biggest price drops I saw were in the height of the alternative rock days when the hockey headstock Carvins were selling used for $200-$400 merely because a shred guitar wasn't fashionable anymore.
But that was 20 years ago and we're seeing more people wanting to "relive" those days so some of those guitars are showing up and selling for higher prices now when they couldn't raise cab fare in say 1993-1994.
The point is 'if you want to reach for it and play it all of the time that's the guitar for you'.
Jbird
Kick Henry Jackassowski
I really liked it
Wasn't able to talk them down that far, but I did get them down to $799. He just didn't want to go down further, and I live too far away to keep coming back....
..and it plays really well. Straight neck, every thing works, clean jack-plate, no scratchy pots, fine tuners are all there. The action on it is maybe an eyelash higher than my DC160, but the koa resonates way better than the solid maple. Has a replacement neck pickup, the bridge volume knob post is a replacement (it sits alot higher than the others) and the mini-switches wiggle a bit, though they work fine. The plastic tip for the pickup selector is missing, but it has the original case in very good shape.
Yeah, I paid too much, but I didn't want to pass on it
The CT6 is officially for sale
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
I really liked it
Wasn't able to talk them down that far, but I did get them down to $799. He just didn't want to go down further, and I live too far away to keep coming back....
..and it plays really well. Straight neck, every thing works, clean jack-plate, no scratchy pots, fine tuners are all there. The action on it is maybe an eyelash higher than my DC160, but the koa resonates way better than the solid maple. Has a replacement neck pickup, the bridge volume knob post is a replacement (it sits alot higher than the others) and the mini-switches wiggle a bit, though they work fine. The plastic tip for the pickup selector is missing, but it has the original case in very good shape.
Yeah, I paid too much, but I didn't want to pass on it
The CT6 is officially for sale
That seems like a good price to me. I was just saying to start low as a haggling point. I think you made out well and paid more what it was worth rather than what was being asked. I'm even more jealous as I have none of the Carvins I used to lust after as a teen and you have two. WTF!
