The longer you keep/ play the guitar you already own the more money you, “make”. Buy a 1000$ guitar and play it for 20 years. 50$ per year of use, less than 5$ per month. Pennies to play… why doesn’t everyone have a guitar? They’re practically free! 🎸

I think that guitars now are the baseball cards and comics of the 80s and 90s. In 20 to 30 years everyone is going to have a boutique or vintage guitar and will try to cash in and will find out that the bottom of the market fell out and the current valuations was just a bubble. That’s when I’ll be happy to buy your guitars!

Danocasters are built here in Nashville. Dan used to live 5 blocks from my house. I’ve played a few and they’re amazing.

I think Suhr is probably the best bang for your buck.....compared to a fender custom shop master built. Suhr you get a plek job, stainless steel frets, nitro finish, light relic, locking tuners, gotoh locking bridge for around $2,800. And, their prices have bene going up pretty regularly.

You guys are my relaxation therapy: no matter how crazy it gets around here and across the river - gun shots, exploding propane tanks, fire, sirens, screaming of the sundry lost souls... I can turn you on and here a calming discussion on lovely guitars from a pleasant place in America.

I love how Baxter almost always brings up a movie or his love of movies, each video. Makes me really fit in as I do the same thing. NERDS UNITE!

Exactly. All that and a bag of jalapeno ranch man. Its why I do like I do. Honestly about five years ago when the big boys said my time had come I ran recoilling from numbers, lawyers and bar codes. I'm not built that way. Imma real certified drewling savant. I just can't stop from creating bad ass axes. It my calming groove. Imma 54 year old walnut snorting tie hacking wacko and I frickin love it man. I do it because fellas like yall pick up one of my instraments with da pickin and a strumming then that kid smile happens. That's it man. Thats it. Great show yall.

I would buy a Collings acoustic signed by Bill Collings. Those are going to be the pre-war Martins of the future.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is one of the greatest movies, one of the best Gary Oldman movies, it's just great. And no, nothing blows up, no cars flying in space, just a great intellectual film.

Best “guitar” channel on the Tube. Thanks for the entertainment guys!

Wright's Acoustic. Beautiful, rich sounding, rich costing guitars. I will get one when I win the lottery.

I don’t buy any guitars as investments, but I would love to own a Collings and a Novo one day! I got on the mulecaster train before they blew up and I really enjoy the uniqueness of that guitar.

The only boutique guitar I've ever wanted was a Trussart. I almost bought one about ten years ago and they were way less costly then.

Thanks for the response, it was the Aluminatti guitar.

"Most" of these are flavor of the month guitars. In 30 years people may or may not even know who these makers were.

I notice I don't see many Tom Anderson Custom builds on your side of the country, but I think they are the most interesting guitars I've ever played or owned. His Custom builds really are custom in that if you want something you get it unless the rare case comes along where he believes your choice will wreck the guitar (like say if I built it).

C’mon Baxter, crack the code to get on the Languedoc list. You be the envy of all the guitar plebs in NC!

Godzilla needs to be playing a Strat. They were born the same year.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is an excellent film about the Cold War spy games and how paranoid British intelligence was about moles inside their organization. Excellent John Lecarre (sp?) book it was adapted from. The American was a good movie to Baxter. It scares me that our taste in movies and guitars is way to close! 😂😂👍👍

Exactly! Buy to play, that’s what matters most! Invest in your playing and that will pay off the most in the long run. 👍 Great vid, dudes!

You guys should check out a builder here in N Ireland called Kithara!! They are exceptional!!

I know I lost money on that Bourgeois, but this Collings is NOT like that! Promise.

The retirement fund is just a fund for future guitars, no?

Novo's seem to hold their value really well.

Languedoc and or Scott Walker. It is not an investment but rather an indulgence.

I just bought my 2nd Shabat guitar. Hand made by Avi Shabat. Very Friedman like but more custom built.

Great t-shirt Baxter! Thanks for representing!!

I got a Magnatone super 15 head and 1x12 matching cab. Closest thing to boutique I've ever purchased

I’ve got a Collings 0002H and a custom ordered not standard production I35.

I love building Warmoth guitars!!!

If I had a dollar for every time Jonathan sat there frustrated while Baxter touches him in some form or fashion…😅

Sorry, Oldman was good but go with 1979 BBC mini-series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Alec Guinness as Smiley. Sublime

When I think of George Clooney, I think "Michael Clayton". He kills in that role!

Thanks Casino. ⚓️. Ha!!! All my guitars are < $200 😎 Except a G&L ASAT Classic Indo, for < $400. 🐙

i could watch you two prattle on all day. Baxter we love your tangents as my friends say i' do that all the time (yeah, i do) but they're always relevant ish - until you forget where you started 🤣😂🤣 Keep these seshes (sessions) going coz we lurve 'em ! cheers from Oz and NZ

Guitars. I’m 70. Still working, to buy more guitars😊

How about a vintage boutique acoustic Pre War Guitars Dread?

You two could sell anything!

I think Switchback Guitars will go up. I played one if their “Country Boys” a few months ago and I think about it everyday. It had the best neck I ever felt, sounded awesome, and played incredible.

I’ll be honest, I know PRS doesn’t intend to make them as investment guitars, but the Dragon series, the guitars they built for Mayer to use with Dead & Co. and hell, the special color Silver Sky’s. I really think if you have the money and connections, those guitars would have been a great investment. Then again, other than the Dragon series, I’d play the hell out of them.

I think i may be an idiot. I buy parts from Fender and "build" my own. I pick out exactly what i want and have the parts within a week. So far, i got lucky. My first 3 sound amazing. Im working on a Strat with 69 custom pickups. All, leather covered. I blame Waylon Jennings

I'm not a collector of guitars .I'm a user . Ended up making my own to get what I feel I needed out of a guitar , still building and keep flipping from one guitar to the next .I can't ever see myself buying another name guitar . I like the reference to Tinker Tailor , soldier spy. I watched the original version on UK TV in 1979 . It had Alex Guinness as the lead actor and was the most absorbing TV I had ever seen . its very dated now but worth a look to compere the updated version . Take care out there .

A questionable comment on my state of mind is that I really look forward to these every day!

I think other than vintage stuff of known quantity, A tele or strat style with top quality woods and parts from a recognized builder will hold value and appreciate with inflation. Ron Kirn would be a good example.

Keep in mind that nice wood will be scarce in the future. I was going to have the custom one off I ordered have a cocobolo fret board but I am going with ebony.

I’m surprised Music Man BFR guitars were not mentioned. Or any of their guitars.

It depends what you are buying for. As something you would sell later at a profit, look for boutique builders who have their guitars played by influential guitar players (not talented or “great” players… but players whose work will have currency in ten years). Similarity to vintage iconic guitars is a more volatile future prospect, especially reliced or custom shop copies. That’s a current trend for the 70s-90s generation that now has expendable income and never had the guitars of the generation before them. Buying for your own playability is an entirely different thing. You shouldn’t want to sell it.

I tried the PRS SILVER SKY at the local music store and loved everything about it, the Strat look, the pick up sounds in all selections, The neck was maple. I loved it, but couldn’t afford it. But that would be my guitar of choice.

Get a Magnatone amp. I’ve a 1947 Magnatone that totally rocks.

Good for you!! RN here and I can't stand an unmade bed lol. Would love a Collings guitar though.

I've noticed my John Suhr guitars have retained or increased in value, especially my Andy Wood Signature model Tele which is the easiest guitar to play I've ever owned.

In the classical guitar world it’s basically the same deal. 1. If you buy an up and coming maker you risk them getting out of the game and having the value drop. It’s really easy to get a 6k classical guitar and then have to take a 2k bath on it. Obviously there is upside because if they become a major builder and they get the right artists you can double your money in 10 years. 2. If it’s an older established maker you’re paying a premium for that. Just make sure it’s a GREAT guitar so you’re not trying to find a sucker that’s willing to pay for the name in the sound hole despite the guitar being a dog.

TIME TO PUT THAT PICKUP IN! LOL

I don't own a boutique guitar...but if I could have my choice it'd be a Wide Sky P125 cutaway with a P90 or Minihumbucker neck pickup and P90 bridge pickup. I wouldn't/don't buy guitars or pedals ie amps etc. as collector investments, so I don't buy them hoping to make money at some later point. I buy them to play and enjoy.

Have either one of you played a Tom Rodriguez electric? I bought one from Tom who I've known since 1980 for a good discount, and it's based on a 68-69 Strat, but with specs I still can't believe. After you get back from NAMM, This 10 Year old near mint guitar is coming down so Baxter can fall in love,( No drooling.). I'll give you one spec: a 20,000 year old fossilized Mastodon nut, and the rest of the specs are exactly as I requested. He recently got a well known Dealer, so I no longer get my poor friends discount, but It is such a fine guitar that while sick it was put away for 18 months, only to come out of the case still 100% in tune,( and Johnathan, no locking tuners!! Just slotted Gotohs!). Can't wait for Baxter to play it and it's Fralin vintage hots, vintage wound the way I wanted them with #42 formver, stock vintage neck and middle, and a mildly hot 6.8 bridge. You're gonna love it! Peace & Love, Keith in RVA

I turn 50 in 2024. I'd love a 1974 Fender. I'd play it constantly and it may increase in value. If not a 1974, a Fender Custom Shop would also be lovely. I'd play that constantly too, and it could very well increase. Or not. Who'd care? They're lovely.

Danocaster's built in Nashville. My personal choice is Grez from Petaluma, CA. His philosophy is that wood quality has gone downhill over the years due to over harvesting. He prefers salvage wood, especially redwood. I'd been hoping for a semi hollow, but wound up getting one of their one-piece solid bodies. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rJuaasZ0r5iveY0.html

at 00:34 ..the look on J's face..so funny!

All of my 20+ scratch built guitars are boutique and unique. I also own many modern and vintage guitars. As you can probably tell. I'm afflicted with GAS. I'm only building a Nashville B bender tele and an upgraded strat body right now. And I'm only gassing for a reasonably priced danelectro at the moment. But things can change overnight. Beware it starts harmlessly with changing out your pickups then assembling a partscaster. Good luck. Save yourself, it's too late for me. lol. btw, it's not a poor man's hobby.

Matchess amp!

I’d love to hear what you guys think of as the best low watt amps! I just got a Tyler JT-14 a few days ago swapping out a quad 6v6 beast and I am so much happier with the Princeton form factor with the 12 inch. It seems like the perfect small gig and home amp, but I’d love to hear what y’all think

idk about boutique stuff but all the custom shop bc richs i bought for 2k or less are already worth more than what I paid for. Good thing Idc about selling tho

If you live in an apartment, save for a house instead of buying magical guitars.

Guys this is a bit silly. Are the listings full of 1988 Tom Anderson’s going for considerably more? The only way any boutique or custom shop guitars will rise will be if the builder dies or quits. See Sid Poole, Peter Max Baranet, Gail Yaron. John English Fenders etc etc. I had a guitar commissioned by a U.K. builder in 2019. He told me yesterday that he will stop building after his 30th Anniversary. But I wouldn’t bet it as an investment.

I would get a MJT pre USACG purchase is a sleeper. It seems that the consensus is that the quality has gone down, but the ones prior are great! I think this is a great buy low and hold, if the trend continues then you may end up with a rare bird that should increase in price.

Really guys, luv the Stan & Ollie bit you've got going! No, really, I do! Why are you looking at me like that? I'm telling it true...!

Resell is good for these.. and these only.... Gibson/American Fender/Martin/Taylor/American Guild/American Gretsch/D'Angelico/American National/American Epiphone/SOME 60's Vox instruments

A friend of mine buys his basses from a builder close to you two but I can''t remember his name.

I want a Duesenberg. And while you can buy an investment, if a guitar does not make you want to pick it up it is not worth owning. The investment is because you may be buying something you really can't afford, but as long as it has resale value and is something in demand, you can off-load it when they time comes. Unfortunately I think there are too many Duesenbergs for sale to be considered in demand, and I can't find a store that carries them so I don't know how they feel. So it looks like Gibson or Gretsch will get my next purchase because they do sell. All of them, all the time...

All day, Paoletti Loft HSS.

Money is not disappear , just become the shape I like 2 years ago I was thinking buying the echopark or Kanji Kawabata’s guitar(Tomo Fujita’s signature guitar maker) But I notice Joe Bonamassa sell his echopark and using hamer v Finally I choose Kanji’s strat, because he post a lot of videos about how he make a guitar just use knife He caches my eyes , so he build a sakura pink stratocaster for me So honored to ow Kanji’s guitar

Get hip to LSL.

On the penny stock level, I like my Ibanez AK series....

Man, putting an instrument that cost as much as those being discussed here in my house sounds terrifying. If something happens to my crappy little Squire, well, a few hundred bucks and I’m back in the game :)

Sorokin , scala, and nik huber. I'd love to try an Echopark! So many nice pieces out there

Sure, the guitar talk is great but I really watch so I can add some movies to my queue. Just started The Expanse so that should occupy some practice time.

Of course we’re still here! I’m curious about the Echo Park guitars…..

Buying any guitar as an investment is highly speculative. Used by many as an excuse for the purchase. Buy what you like and can afford, then take care of it. If it increases in value over time by the guitar gods then it's a bonus.

Thoughts on Lucky Dog? I think he is making some incredible Teles!! That will probably be my first real boutique guitar purchase.

Boutique that doesn't wow.... I just think Suhr. I've owned several now and none stay. Quality build etc, but I live for that resonance through a guitar and have never played a Suhr that had it. Reminds me of being on a date with a beautiful woman who just seems great but just has no spark.

I bought a Dan Becker Retro guitar serial #1 a number of years ago for $1100 Canadian from a friend It is mint Will it go up in value?Who cares.I buy guitars because I love them.The higher the return,the higher the risk.Remember,it was the turtle that won the race.investments are risky at best.Trends change.What pisses me off are those that part out guitars.I refuse to buy from them.Sorry,I tend to ramble on. Cheers

Baxter, making your bed is a waste of time. While you are making your bed you could be getting on the KOT list. Think man!

A Dano modded Murphy Lab. From the few pics I have seen, oh boy.

I rewatched The American a couple of weeks ago too (and yes, I was doing the same thing on IMDB during the film...)

Bert and Ernie of the guitar world . No one's gonna' want my Carvin / Kiesel collection Bahaha . Love yer' guys stories !

Total agree with you guys, it’s just obscene to me that people buy guitars for investment and not for playing, but I guess that’s the difference in this weird old world. I’d rather write a perfect song than be given £1,000,000 … and I genuinely mean that, my bank account proves it :)

Da coaster is in Nashville Tennessee

If you think the movie “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” is boring, try reading the book.

I have said it before and I will say it again. The American is an awesome movie! Also, you never mention my guitars. I am shocked! 😂😁😂

My top 3 companies #1 whalehazard guitar #2 frank brothers #3 millimetric guitars

Shout out to Red Rocket Guitars.......Fantastic boutique Guitars.

Movie Wise, you guys are young....

I own a butterscotch blonde Fender ultra telecaster which was love at first sight, till death do us part.

Baxter you and Jonathan should see the movie NOBODY.

Oh boy - 2 booty-que brands that maybe you sell? Wow! What are the odds those are the 2 brands you'd choose to recommend...! (I'm in the $, dee tah dee dah!)

Nacho Teles from Spain....

Echo Park for the win! DETROIT made magic...imagine that. I wish I could talk Gabrielle into going in with me on the old Kalamazoo plant (snicker). Wouldn't that be fun? I love his designs.

9:30 I had a supervisor like Baxter.... a typical convo (with Norm MacDonald reference): Him: Did you see movie X? Me: No. Him: Do you remember the scene with Meryl Streep and the horse? Me: I didn't see the movie. Him: Oh, you didn't see the movie? Well you should see it. Anyway, so Meryl goes to buy a horse...

Im gonna keep this for ever .... Is that a angus young custom shop guitar ? Maybe i'll sell

Got a boutique guitar being made right now from Fry Guitars got just because I wanted it .. don’t expect to ever sell it will hand it down to someone one day