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Reunion Blues has started a series of Vintage Guitar Road Shows, and invited Premier Guitar to join in and be a sponsor. The first one held at Bananas at Large in San Rafael, CA, saw some very nice collectible guitars. The owner of an '57 Gibson L5C brought in his guitar to be appraised and found it was worth approximately $8000. However, it would have been worth more if it hadn't been modified. More shows are planned across the US so stay tuned for dealer locations and more videos.

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Joihn Maher on 12/10/2008	Rudy: What's your zip code? We could do a search and maybe find a Reunion Blues dealer close to you who would like to put on one of these Road Shows in your hood.
John Maher on 12/10/2008	kmart: I just read over my response and it looks like I misunderstood. When you stated "Shallers were not around in 1961, I took is as the Shaller company. Shallers TUNERS were around way early but those particular Shaller tuners (in the video on the 61 Martin) were not around in 1961 and, yes, we did tell him that. - I just got a phone call from Allen Chiles (www.vintageguitarpro.com) who also confirmed this after reading your comment. (He said the modern style of those particular tuners pointed more at the early to mid 80s.) - Your comment is the sort of fun communication that keeps it interesting and informative for everyone. Thanks again for you obvious expertise and I promise to get back to everyone about that Strat neck (in Part 1 of the video) as sson as I hear back from the owner.
John Maher on 12/10/2008	kmart said: "dude Shallers wern't even around in 1961." - This is John at Reunion Blues and I want you to know that we welcome comments like this because we want to be as accurate as possible. Sometimes we'll get the wrong information and, when we do, we promise to correct things whenever we can. - In this particular case, I just placed a call to the NAMM Museum of Making Music and also visited the Shaller web site and it looks like Shaller was around all the way back in 1945, and certainly into the American Rock & Roll culture as early as 1955. (Click on http://schaller-guitarparts.de/hp796/His tory-in-pictures.htm?ITServ=C37a3caffX11 e221fe18dXY113a). - Regarding the Strat in this video that you say has a replacement neck, I have a call into the owner for you and am waiting on an answer about that one. - Stay tuned and THANKS for heads up. We're having a lot of fun providing this service along with Premier Guitar, and our very first priority is to be as accurate as possibe, and YOU, the viewer, are our best source for this kind of information!
kmart on 12/06/2008	dude Shallers wern't even around in 1961.Why didn't you tell him that.1978 was quite possibly the worst year for Fenders and it has a replaced neck.Anybody who would pay 2000 dollars for that is fooling himself.
Rudy on 12/04/2008	Cool. The first blonde Gibson got me excited. I have a blonde '59 National Bel Aire that looks very much like it. All original. She's so pretty and sounds like she looks. Her neck is well rated on the net to be great, I like it anyway. I would like to take this and my'52 Les Paul w/ original case in to your Road Show.

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