Loved the video Mike. Thanks for including 3 of mine in the Top 10. Keep up the great work

This great information. Thank you. I agree with the guy below who said Coronets are due a run. It will be interesting to see if guitars made in 2022 (which are pretty good esp for price) will become revered in future years. Great content!

Loved this video. I’ve got a sunburst custom shop Les Paul Junior and it screams. Would love an original one day 😊👍

Would love to see this done for Japanese guitars. Seen some amazing hikes on les Paul and strat law suit guitars

Great video Mike. I'm lucky enough to own 3 guitars that made the top 10. I would tell anyone looking to buy a guitar strictly for investment....don't. Buy a guitar that you will love & enjoy. If it just so happens to be a good investment that's even better. Long term investments in the S&P are far more likely result in better returns. But it's a wonderful thing to own a guitar that is not only something that you love & enjoy but also qualifies as a solid investment.

Hi Mike. Great video. What about the Gibson ES-125?

Hi Mike, great video! Just my two cents on the development of single cut versus dual cut juniors: I think in the earlier years the juniors were considered mainly player guitars, which is why Dual cuts were more desired. Then juniors started to become collector’s pieces and thus the older single cut ones became more interesting (simply because of the age). I think this explains pretty well why the dc juniors got taken over by the sc ones.

Thanks Mike. Very helpful!

Great video! It's been quite a ride over the past decade and it'll be interesting to see where this goes. If I may offer one small suggestion, it would be to minimize or eliminate the background music. It's a bit hard to hear you over the track.

Fascinating insight Mike! It seems like perhaps the slightly more obtainable (cheaper) guitars have risen slightly faster which makes sense. I'm curious which custom colours have seemed to do most (or least) well in your experience?

Beautiful couch!!!!

Nice video, pal!

Very informative Mike thankyou.

Around 2018 I went down the rabbit hole of collecting vintage guitars. Pretty much cashed out all my savings funds and over the last four years bought and sold mostly pre 65 Fenders and Gibsons. Because my goal was to experience these guitars and not as an investment I mostly bought refins or neck repairs. Would prefer to have two refins than 1 perfect vintage (which I would be too scared to play). Glad to see the refins are experiencing good growth - have 3 pre CBS Strats all refins. On the other hand the price rise has completely killed the collecting for me. Cannot fathom paying 40k for a Goldtop when they were maybe 20k back in 2019. Even if I can sell my current guitars for higher my brain just won’t accept it

Interesting video, I thought juniors would be top! strangely I thought ES-330s would have been higher. I think es-175s will be a good buy now that 330s are so expensive. Epiphone Coronets also a good buy I think for the future.

Hope the rest of your holiday was good Mike. After bumping into you at the Cathedral we saw Right Said Fred performing outside WH Smith’s. All very surreal. Tony

Nice video, Mike.

Love this channel

Good channel 😊

Thank you,, I regret letting go of. ‘66 Mustang Bass and. A ‘65 Newport Epiphone Bass maybe 18-20 years ago. Still have a ‘75 L6 Midnight Special in rarer Cream Sparkle… and that one I believe crawls up in value. All the ones mentioned are already out of my current grasp. Thanks for the education.

Enjoyed very much. Is there a series here? Take one model; Jaguar or LPJ, and look at the increase of specific variations. Which custom colour has increased the most? Has a DC TV gone up more than a SC sunburst?

Thank you!

Hi Mike I was very happy to see that dirty Burst go to Joe

Dang! I went to your website to buy a single cut Jr. And was expecting something in the range mentioned here. Unfortunately the 3 that i was interested in are already close to 50% higer than the max price stated for sunburst examples. What happened? I kniw its late in the year but it is still 2022, isnt it?

Billy Joe Armstrong has been collecting 50’s Juniors for decades now. It’s estimated he owns at least 20 of them.

That is super cool guitars are worth more here than they are in England because of the value of the pound and the American dollar I cannot afford vintage guitars like this I have to hang on to when I have I’m surprised that Graach didn’t even make the lineup Gibson and Fender seem to be the most popular and the most money makers I love the fender Stratocaster and also love the jazz master these are truly beautiful guitars shaped very nicely I enjoyed your video very much thanks so much have a great day and a good night looking forward to more videos 🎸👍🏼🎶🎼😀😎

Fascinating stuff and, really, absolutely no surprises given my own observations over the last few years (Covid prompted a lot more reading and YT viewing than previously!). I was a little surprised not to see the Gibson 1968 Les Paul Custom making the list given its relative rarity? (I own one, so more than a little interested!) This was the year Gibson brought the actual Les Paul shape back into the line-up, I believe, and the 1968 Custom was a relatively small run before they introduced the velute onto later 1969 models. Would be interested to know if anyone has a 'rating' for this model or any idea of what one may be worth? On a different note, I would just throw it out there that in 20 or 30 years time we might be discussing some of the initial run of the hand finished violin style lacquered Eastman models in a setting like this - particularly their Les Paul and 335 style instruments. I have played a few and they are quite special in all regards. Their nitro finish is also high quality but recently they have switched to their 'Truetone Gloss', which I'm sure is great but, as with the late 50s Les Pauls, I suspect the first few years of production before 'things changed' will become collectibles. The SB59/v is going to be my next purchase and I know it will sit comfortably beside my 68 LP. (I'm not affiliated at all - purely personal observation from a once upon a time guitar salesman and guitarist / producer of 45 years).

Any updates on the 1994 Fender Strat, that was to be made in MX, but due to the fire, ended up being made in CA? As I understand not many were made, and most of them were acquired by Fender staff and distributors who knew what they were.

Road worn autumn burst 1980’s Fender Esprit, no case, any good ?

I think Gibson's budget DCs caused the drop in rep/cool score compared to the SC which has really come back into people's hearts

how much did the value of VINTAGE guitars go up in 2021. 10-15-20% ???

I understand the investment concept of course but I can't help but think that it's a lot of cash for some basically small bits of wood and some metal. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Are Epiphone casinos performing better or worse than Gibson 330s, especially after the Beatles documentary?

Great vid. Not sure I like these guitars being so skewed to elites. It's kind of distasteful. But at least it's not Bonamassa who has an outrageous number of instruments.

Mike's keeping his pimp hand strong! (sorry I had too)

Billie Joe Armstrong from Greenday is an avid and very popular Jr. User.

Im surprise the mustang is not here, it doubled in 10 years

i'm afraid vintage guitars will drop in value if deflation hits in the coming years

It's a bit sad that these beautiful instruments are just seen as an investment. A propos of nothing, I'd love to see double blind tests done on vintage vs modern/custom/whatever.

"Stand rash " What guitar stand would you recommend for nitrocelleose?

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Whether or not Gibson les Paul Murphy lab are a good long-term investment, their current resale value is terrible! Good for us buyers however! The new initial retail price is WAY too high!

this video would be much more enjoyable and relaxing without the background music

A Recession like no other is on the way. Vintage guitars will drop in value! You watch! Just in time for the stock market & housing market crash! They are way overpriced, peeked and overhyped! Interesting video though!

I think the value of vintage guitars will fall dramatically in 20 years when most of the boomers have gone, just like vintage cars. The market will be far smaller. As soon as real demand falls, so will investment.

I don't appreciate you drowning on for 6 minutes just to begin your dumb countdown

The generations die off and so do their interests. They don't seem to give a shit about spending giant amounts for what they see as an old guitar. No buyer no value. Especially models they don't care for.