can't believe my luck :)

Discussion in 'Guitar Gear Talk Forum' started by availablegod, Nov 26, 2012.

  1. availablegod

    availablegod New Member

    Growth Investment Portfolio: The 1966 Maton DC545 Slenderline

    check this link out people...i have bought this guitar from a south kolkata shop...where someone sold it for 8 k only :p
    every single thing is stock except just the bridge pickup which is a dimarzio super distortion and the tuners which are gotoh..

    here's the catch....only 782 of these were ever made between 1964 and 1967..and the serial number of the first one was 101...mine is 882 :p so guess what that makes it ? :D

    the guitar plays like a dream...never played an archtop before...and this is a real beauty...the tone is just so rich even unplugged..much more than a simple chambered body..i'm gonna post a youtube video of this guitar pretty soon :)

    got the guitar at the price of a lifetime :) couldn't wait to share this with you guys
     

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  2. ayu135

    ayu135 New Member

    Nice!! Maton guitars are good. I have heard a lot of praise for their acoustics.
     
  3. availablegod

    availablegod New Member

    thanx man...can't believe my luck on being actually able to play a nearly 50 year old rare vintage guitar...and the icing on the top of the cake is that it's a fantastic player this guitar....and the cherry on the icing on the top of the cake is that it's MINE :D

    man i'm elated
     
  4. ayu135

    ayu135 New Member

    Damn i hadnt first checked the link in your first post!! There it is written that this guitar is valued at $3000!! Maybe you could auction it on ebay or something and buy a nice guitar and tube amp for that money!! Congrats on finding it that too for 8000!!
     
  5. tirtha2chester

    tirtha2chester New Member

    What idiot puts a dimarzio super distortion on a beauty like that??

    And agree with ayu135... Unless you wanna keep it as a trophy, auctioning it could fetch you lacs! But before you do so, replace the Dimarzio with a Duncan antiquity...
     
  6. tirtha2chester

    tirtha2chester New Member

    And may I ask which shop you got it from?
     
  7. availablegod

    availablegod New Member

    music cafe at rabindra sarobar

    man...i don't want to sell this guitar unless i am in a dire need to :)
    it just feels so amazing to be holding an instrument that has seen so much.. I am a bit too fortunate :p

    @ayu and tirtha

    this is the very last guitar of the dc 545 series that was handbuilt in the maton workshop at victoria...this is number 782 :D

    i guess that makes it a bit more special
     
  8. tirtha2chester

    tirtha2chester New Member

    Mustaque should have shown me this... :sigh:
    I had gone there 2 days ago only!
     
  9. availablegod

    availablegod New Member

    i bought it 2 weeks ago :p
     
  10. ayu135

    ayu135 New Member

    yeah and please do replace the bridge pickup.
     
  11. availablegod

    availablegod New Member

    :) ... i like the biting tone the super distortion offers
     

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