Vintage Guitar Buyer’s Guide One of our great pleasures here at JGG is answering customer’s questions regarding buying a vintage guitar. As we often get asked very similar questions on topics such as value, originality and how to really assess vintage guitars, we’ve decided to put together our very own vintage guitar buyers guide. We […]

How to Sell a Vintage Guitar On a good day, we are asked, at least once “would you be interested in buying my old guitar?” On a bad day we are asked several times. On a really bad day, they all turn out to be trades. From Africa. Yes, we do buy guitars from individuals […]

Importing Vintage Guitars from the USA We buy the majority of our vintage guitars in the US, on dedicated buying trips. Gibson guitars were sold in the US domestic market with only a tiny minority few arriving in the UK since the 50s and 60s. So, we go to where the guitars are, importing them […]

Buying Vintage Guitars for Investment At the start of the 21st century, investing in vintage guitars became a viable alternative asset class in much the same way that fine wine, wrist watches and violins were. Like Rolex for watches and Rothschild for wines, Gibson and especially Golden Era Gibsons is the big name. Fuelled by […]

Part Exchanges with Vintage Guitars In the scenario where you really want one of our Great Guitars, and you want to use one of your ‘cast-offs’ to pay for it, then we may be able to help you through a part-exchange or vintage guitar trade. When we trade vintage guitars we are selling you one […]

You’ve got to admire the spirit of this Chinese manufacturer, with their “12 years experience making all kinds of electric guitar”. Pioneers in the use of the eco-friendly potato-based wood replacement material called “mashogony“, these instruments pay homage to the designers of the Gibsons and Fenders who originally designed the guitars they have been making […]