Guitar and amp blue book values

I got interested in amps not knowing a resister from a capacitor or any idea how to read a schmatic. Our online subscription services allow you to visit our convenient website and look up guitar and amp values quickly through the search function. The definitive guide to pricing your used instrument music. I chose to trade in versus selling it myself because its more of a hassle to try to find someone to sell it to, haggling about prices, can you add this, can you take away that. Buy blue book of guitar values by s p fjestad editor online at alibris. Lyxpro electric guitar with 20w amp package and accessories. Nov 08, 2007 looking for guitar values and information. The book offers guitar reference information and values on more than 400 guitar amplifier manufacturers and distributors including fender, marshall, ampeg, vox, peavey, mesaboogie, laney, kustom, harmony, kay, epiphone. Reverb transactions to estimate the current value of items in used but original. The best way to find an accurate value for your guitar is to go to the experts. The new 4th edition blue book of guitar amplifiers is now over 750 pages, identifies nearly 500 guitar amplifier manufacturers, trademarks, and boutique builders, and features over a thousand images. A little directed research on the internet may help to yield a good picture of an instruments value. Welcome to the reverb price guide, the ultimate resource for music gear pricing and information. The blue book of electric guitars the blue book of acoustic guitars the blue book of guitar amplifiers.

Guitar amp acoustic guitar electric guitar bass guitar effects all types. You can also consult the blue book of guitar values to see what it is worth. If you can not grade your guitar or amplifier please submit some close up pictures for my assessment top, bottom, front, back, etc, etc, etc, 8. Get the kelley blue book value for your used car or tradein vehicle, find tools to help you with buying or. The amp guide receives questions everyday from folks wondering how much their amp is worth, and this new tool will help the vintage music community in determining fair market value and create a well informed industry. Year of release, retail price, private party value, tradein value and our own agon average, which uses audiogons proprietary market data to determine the recommended real market value. The blue book of guitars of course compiles data from sales to determine values, as they do for cars.

Musical instruments blue book used musical instruments product. The guitar industrys only comprehensive publication on guitar amplifier information and values has been dramatically improved. The blue book of guitar amplifiers, 3rd edition is now expanded to 608 pages including the 16page color photo grading system. The blue book of acoustic guitars and blue book of electric guitars are the two leading reference and value guides in the guitar industry, along with the blue. Get 4 blue book of guitar values coupon codes and promo codes at couponbirds. This page is all about the free research you can undertake. Our online price guides and used equipment calculators are easy to use and the most accurate on the web. Once i recieve them, i will be more than willing to provide members and guests with guitar values as time permits remember, i do work for a living too. Read about guitar history and find out how much your guitar is worth at the. Looking for guitar amplifier values and information.

Is there a site for guitars in the same vein as the kelley blue book. Basic theory a 21stcentury approach to understanding preamp, power amp, and power supply design fundamentals of guitar amplifier system design a structured methodolody for crafting an awesome guitar amplifier. Vintage guitar is marking 25 years of publication with a year full of features. Audio bluebooks extensive database of highend audio products offers instant access to everything you need to know to set the right price. I would be more than happy to look them up for you and value them from mint 98% condition to good 60% condition and amps from excellent condition or average condition. This is very important as the blue book provides values based upon the guitars condition as indicated above. Ryan triggs over 5,850 new and vintage individual models are identified in detail with current new or used market retail values, and many are included. The downside is that this research requires a big expenditure of time and a wide knowledge of guitar pricing resources. The following websites act as a guitar blue book online. Dans book talks about different capacitor, resister values and some schematic reading. Fjestads blue book guitars price guides are available in.

My advice would be to go to the blue book of guitar values. Over 5,850 new and vintage individual models are identified in detail with current new or used market retail values, and many are included. Read about guitar history and find out how much your guitar is worth at the reverb price guide. The blue book of guitars to give it its proper name, has become the go to place for anyone buying or selling a second hand guitar in order to figure out what said guitar is worth. Although several authors have made great works about the gibson company and their guitars, little has been devoted to their amplifiers. Click to enjoy the latest deals and coupons of blue book of guitar values and save up to 30% when making purchase at checkout. Used equipment blue book values and online fair market value. Instruments electric guitars bass guitars acoustic guitars ukulele.

Blue book value on a martin the unofficial martin guitar. The official vintage guitar price guide vintage guitar. Warren, whose price guide books have been the authority on collectibles values since 1985. Blue book publications is excited to announce its newest reference and value guide in an allnew convenient pocketsized layout. Save money on used bass amplifiers at guitar center. Blue book releases 14th edition electric and acoustic guitar. The book offers guitar reference information and values on more than 400 guitar amplifier manufacturers and distributors including fender, marshall, ampeg, vox, peavey, mesaboogie, laney, kustom, harmony, kay. Hal leonard blue book of guitar amplifiers5th edition. Find blue book values and fair market prices on used guns, computers, stereos and more with online price guides and the most accurate used equipment data online. Collectors who grew up in the 1950s often want different guitars to those that grew up in the 1980s. I agree that there isnt much information about gibson amps out there.

Blue book publications presents the paul reed smith pocket. There are three main ways to get a vintage guitar valuation. If you want a completely accurate evaluation of your vintage guitar amp, my advice would be to go to the experts at blue book of guitar amp values. Kbb is a list of different cars and what theyre worth under different conditio. Blue book of guitar amplifiers 5th edition hal leonard. The book offers guitar reference information and values on more than 400 guitar amplifier manufacturers and distributors including fender, marshall, ampeg, vox. The blue book of acoustic guitars the blue book of guitar amplifiers. Nevertheless, if you like turning a blind eye to reality and who doesnt, heres how to find out. Products instrument amplifiers guitar amps bass amps acoustic amps keyboard amps pedal steel amps. Carolyn manis background includes twenty years of experience in both live and online auctions, as well as an extensive background in appraising and vetting furniture and decorative arts, fine art, collectibles, musical instruments and entertainment memorabilia.

The drawback to this approach is the annual nature of the publication means that it is potentially out of date especially if the market is moving up or down quickly. This is very important as the blue book provides values based upon the guitar s condition as indicated above. Used equipment blue book values and online fair market. If you already own an older edition of this book, you can not get a current price, simply by adjusting for inflation. While fret not does not offer written appraisals i do have some pointers for those who are trying to find out what their instrument is worth. Blue book of guitar values used guitar, amp, amplifier, values. Dedicated to only prs guitars and amps, the paul reed smith pocket guide contains detailed specifications for everything paul reed smith as well as used values. The blue book of guitar amplifiers is unfortunately a singular publication of its type.

For the vintage amp fan it has good information yet wildly inconsistent values probably due in part to their lumping of many, many distinct types of amp models into multipledecade age groups and a grading system that is. Recently weve received a number of questions from amp owners asking for help in determining the value of their fender amplifier. Guitar values can range from practically nothing to an astronomical sum for the right guitar and to an untrained eye, guitars at either end of the spectrum can look very similar. When playing an electric guitar, especially as a performer, an amp is not optional. The guitar blue book is popular for its easy to understand layout as well as its accurate values. One should bare in mind that blue books cant predict changing economic times and regardless of an estimated value, its only worth. The definitive guide to pricing your used instrument. Chances are its not even worth 44 cents or his signature, but rather a good sign the foundations of your house are about to cave in. The number one source of guitar and amplifier pricing and information so you can find the price and value of your used guitars and amplifier. The book offers guitar reference information and values on more than 400 guitar amplifier manufacturers and distributors including fender, marshall, ampeg, vox, peavey, mesaboogie, laney, kustom the blue book of guitar amplifiers, 3rd edition is now expanded to 608 pages including the 16page color photo grading system. We are the trusted guitar price guide for providing guitar blue book values.

Its been so successful that its spawned a whole series of more specialist books, such as the paul reed smith pocket guide, and a special edition book on marshalls legendary bluesbreaker amp. Over 5,850 new and vintage individual models are identified in detail with current new or used market retail values. Find out what your car is worth at, the trusted resource for used car values. I will need to know the following information in order to. Find fair market value on guns, computers, stereos and more.

Vintage guitar collecting, like anything else is subject to fashion. The blue book of electric guitars features comprehensive information and. Find the current blue book value and worth of your new and used guitars, both acoustic, electric and amplifier. Diy vibrato shorting plug for blackfacesilverface amps. Id already read the tube amp book and one or two of gerald webers. Multivox premier was a guitar and amplifier brand of new yorkbased retailerwholesaler, peter sorkin music company sorkin music and its manufacturing subsidiary multivox founded in the mid1940s. Jul 17, 2007 is your guitar worth 44 cents or 44 thousand. A guitar amplifier is an electronic sound amplifier designed to amplify the electrical signal from an acoustic or electric guitar in order to play it through a speaker. Guitar amplifier used guitar amplifier product values by. From here, you can make additions or subtractions to the value based on damages. Ill probably get flamed for saying this but i liked the dan torris book when i started out.

Covering both vintage and modern guitars, acoustic flattops and archtops. I would be more than happy to look them up for you and value them from mint 98% condition to good 60% condition and amp s from excellent condition or average condition. Of course, finding a price on an old guitar or amp is one thing. Another great resource is vintage guitar magazines price guide, which is regularly updated and available at amazon.

You need not spend a ton of money to get an expert opinion. Once you have correctly identified your guitar, you can look up a suggested value in the books above. Fjestads blue book of electric guitars 11th edition to give away to three lucky readers on june 6, 2008. The specific ones that well be dealing with are situated between the phase inverter plates and the powertube grids. Blue book of guitar values by s p fjestad editor alibris. Speakers speaker components pro audio speakers instrument. Seeing all the input on this forum im surprised no one has created a kelly blue book for basses. However, check out the third edition of the blue book of guitar amplifiers for some additional information and current values. Compared to brass, woodwind or the finer stringed instruments, the production and marketing of guitars are much more like consumer goods. Sellers are now supposed to leave prices on finished sale threads, but many still remove them which is against tb request.

If you can not grade your guitar or amplifier please submit some close up pictures for my assessment top. Use this site for a pricing guide and source of information on all guitars. I believe this is a good resource for arriving at an estimate of an instruments current value. The blue book of electric guitars, 11th edition is now expanded to 1,168 pages including the 16page color photo grading system. Imagine if all the models with updated pricing from the blue book of acoustic guitars, blue book of electric guitars, and the blue book of guitar amplifiers over 1,870 pages were condensed into one lightweight publication with under 400 pages. Monday, july, 2009 peavey vypyr 75 modeling amp wins guitar world gold award. Find great deals on ebay for blue book guitar amps. A lot of us turn to blue book price guides for instrument valuation. This ultimate reference guide includes guitar reference information and values on over 1,200 guitar manufacturers and distributors including gibson, fender, paul reed smith. The blue book of acoustic guitars and blue book of electric guitars are the two leading reference and value.