A Certified Guitar Appraisal

A Certified Guitar Appraisal is not just a one page document with a value on it. It is a report written only after thoroughly inspecting the guitar and gathering information about the guitar builder, the guitar, and the market in which it is normally sold. Additionally, the appraisal is based on actual comparable sales similar to a Real Estate Appraisal. The appraiser should have information on three to four other sales from three to four sources in order to set an accurate value. One blue colored book is not enough to accurately appraise the value of your guitar, nor is an online Web site with one click estimates a value after you input a serial number. A Certified Guitar Appraisal has many sections of information.

Why should you seek an appraisal from a AB-Selectors Effect pedals ? The IRS made a new ruling that for Donations, Estate Settlement, and Marriage Dissolution you must have a Certified Appraisal. Now many insurance companies are following the same requirements. The IRS can fine an appraiser for over or under valuing a guitar. There is accountability. Certified Appraisers cannot give “ball park figures”, we have to be accurate.

Many people just want to know what their guitar is worth to be able to sell it. If you have a vintage or very unusual guitar or a guitar that has a celebrity history and want to sell it or insure it, then it is advised that you have the guitar authenticated and appraised by a Certified Appraiser.

This article will explore what is typically included within a Certified Guitar Appraisal.

Type of Value

We need to decide what is the point of the appraisal, and then decide what type of value we must use. For most, the two main values is either Fair Market Value or Replacement Value Comparable. Fair Market Value is used when someone wants to sell or donate their guitar. Replacement Value Comparable is the value used when you want to have your guitar insured or file an insurance claim. Replacement Value Comparable usually produces the higher estimate.

Literal Description – Identification and Classification

In guitar appraisal, the next thing to do is to identify the guitar. This may seem simple but we need to decide what type of guitar it is. In the USA, there are many types of guitars: Classical Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Solidbody Electric guitar, Archtop guitar, Lap steel guitar, Resonator guitar, and 12-string Electric guitar. This also applies to bass guitars

Size of Body

The size of the guitar body would be the next feature that has to be listed such as Dreadnaught, Parlor, thinline, Grand, and Concert.

Manufacturer Brand and Country of Origin

There are hundreds of manufactures. The top three in the world are Fender, Gibson, and Martin. There are many other top guitar builders such as Rickenbacker, BC Rich, Gretsch, and Guild. The manufacture could have a lower line manufactured in another country. This needs to be stated. As a Certified Appraiser, I would have to write about who the manufacture is and what their ranking is within the music products industry. I am required to do the same with the specific model of the guitar.

Model

Next would come the model name or model number. Some manufactures have both a number and a name. Clients will tell me they have a Fender Stratocaster Electric guitar. Stratocaster is the model; however there are over 175 variation models of the Stratocaster model. With each year, small improvements or changes were made. This is also true with Telecasterelectric guitars and Gibson Les Paul electric guitar models. Color can also add or take away from the value.

Features

Features of guitars can be shaping of the body, materials used, how many pickups they have, where are the placement of the knobs, the width of the fingerboard or the shaping of the fingerboard, the types of frets, the type of tuners, and bridge.

The Year it was Manufactured

In regards to year of manufacturer, many will say, “just go by the serial number”. Many guitar builders started without any serial numbers. Some serial numbers are sequential while others are a code. Some of the codes tell me year, month, day, and production number.

A manufacture might make a special run of guitars. They may give those a separate serial number system. The serial number might reflect which plant it was manufactured. Serial numbers can be duplicated many times within the same company. I have a Gibson 335 electric guitar with a serial number that is listed in four different years. Besides the serial number, you have to look at the features of the guitar. Consider this: on December 31 of every year, the manufacture does not throw out all parts and start with new parts on January 1.

Known Modifications and Identifying Marks

In appraising a vintage guitar it is important to list known modifications as it can greatly affect value. We also list identifying marks in case someone scratched off the serial number.

Photograph

The report should have photos taken by the appraiser to show its condition on the effective date of the appraisal. The client’s photos are not used because the photo could have been taken 10 years prior. An old photo might not show a bowed neck.

Other Elements

Other elements of a Certified Guitar Appraisal will include a bibliography of where this information was gathered; a condition graph explaining what that appraiser means by “Good Condition”. The report might also have a glossary of terms so a judge, an attorney, or insurance adjuster, who is not familiar with the details of a guitar, can understand the report. The client’s information must be kept confidential. The appraisal reports should state where the appraiser gathered the information and include the appraiser’s credentials showing their experience with guitars and formal education in appraisal studies.

You now know the basics of what kind of information is included in a Certified Guitar Appraisal Report. If you were smart enough to have purchased a good quality guitar, then be smart enough to protect it by having it insured and having a Certified Appraisal performed to establish an accurate value.

If you have inherited a guitar or plan to leave your guitar collection to a family member or friend, then you should know what the value of each guitar is worth. Certified Guitar Appraisals can be costly; you are going to pay for the knowledge, experience and education of a Certified Appraiser. However, you will receive a report that is accurate and will hold up in a court of law.

The Hunger charcoal accordant with around-the-clock music, reside shows

The Hunger ability be from Houston, but founding associates and brothers Jeff and Thomas Wilson can in fact alarm Beaumont their additional home. They’ve performed at just about every area in Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana, outlasting a lot of of them, including Starz, Palladium, Club F/X, Empire, Sea Rim Beach, Texas Longhorn Club, Ford Park, Club Infinity, Lamar’s Setzer Student Center, The Bottle Shop and The Hangar, just to name a few.

They aswell accent festivals such as Gulf Coast Jam, Pleasure Island Music Festival and performed at the aboriginal aboriginal Dog Jam, again alleged Texas Dog Jam, in 2001 at the old fairgrounds.

If that’s not absorbing enough, in 1994, Bridge City Top Academy won a contest, created by again affairs administrator Mark Landis of Ability Hits K106 and acceptable themselves an in-school concert and got to aces from three bands. Two were civic acts at the time, the added accepting The Hunger. The top academy acceptance of Bridge City chose wisely, as they were on the accepting end of a one-hour concert during school.

Heading into the third decade of their journey, The Hunger charcoal accordant and they accept a agitating adventure to tell. Though it’s not the aboriginal lineup, the two a lot of important capacity abide able in the brothers Wilson, who allotment advance singing duties. The accepted calendar aswell consists of Tim Huston on guitar, Darren Nelson on bass and Alex Slay on drums, and it’s been this way for several years now.

The bandage has recorded six abounding albums to date — Leave Me Alone (1991), Grip (1993), Devil Thumbs a Ride (1996), Cinematic Superthug (1998), Spaceman’s Last Goodbye (2001) and Finding Who We Are (2005).

Beaumont was alien to The Hunger in the backward ’80s if an aboriginal adaptation of the bandage played at Lamar University. Their music was a assurance of the times, with affluence of keyboards that fit appropriate in with bands like Erasure, Depeche Mode and Foreground 242. It was aswell during the time the ball club arena was demography off locally, alpha with the granddaddy of them all, Starz.

Then came radio personality Mark Landis. Landis was handed the keys to a radio base in 1991, again alleged Ability Hits K106. Landis was a big basic at 93Q in Houston, formed the bistro arena there and was actual accustomed with The Hunger.

Landis angry Beaumont upside down, giving the airwaves a abundant bare facelift. He began arena The Hunger on Ability Hits K106 and alien Southeast Texans to songs like “Never Again,” “Shock” and “Shoot to Kill.” That’s all it took.

“The Hunger had the appropriate complete at the time for what was accident in both Houston and Beaumont musically,” said Landis. “Their activity and affection on date came through every night, and their admirers are acutely loyal to them.”

With their tunes saturated on the radio, the bandage became burning stars and began arena Beaumont on a approved base while architecture up a ample following.

A additional album, Grip, was appear in 1993 and featured bounded radio hits “Communication Breakdown” and a accommodate of Bad Company’s “Feel Like Makin’ Love.”

Those in Los Angeles and New York began to yield apprehension of what had become added than just a bounded bandage in Texas. While several almanac companies were interested, it was Universal Records who gave The Hunger their aboriginal civic recording contract.

Devil Thumbs a Ride was appear nationally in March 1996. The bandage again consisted of Thomas, Jeff, Brian Albritton (bass), Stephen Bogle (guitar) and Max Schuldberg (drums), and they flew to Canada to shoot a video for the albums aboriginal single, “Vanishing Cream.”

The video was put in circling on MTV and MTV2 and the song became a hit on bedrock radio stations beyond America. The bandage toured the country and aswell landed a two-week assignment on the KISS 1996 alliance tour.

Fast advanced to 2012, and The Hunger continues to accomplish about a dozen or so shows a year. And their fans, both the loyal and the newbies, assume to adulation it.

The Examiner batten with Jeff Wilson about the beginning, average and what’s next for this band.

How and if did it all start?

It was 1987 as a way to just blend around. It was three surfing buddies — myself, Thomas and Geoff Fish. It wasn’t for any added acumen than to play some Beastie Boys’ songs. We played a little bit of everything, and the alone affair we aspired to do was accept a acceptable time. It was a simple setup. I played bass, Thomas played drums and Geoff was the guitar player. We didn’t even apperceive how to sing yet. Appropriate about that time, we were cheating in the top academy and practicing. A classmate, Brian Albritton, begin out about it and brought over one of his keyboards, and one convenance was all it took. We got absolute lucky, absolute fast.

It wasn’t abundant afterwards and you guys delivered ‘Leave Me Alone.’

That came in 1991 on Alpha International Records. I alarm that anthology a byproduct of Beaumont. We were arena Beaumont a lot aback then, and afterwards the record, we started alarming up and accepting bags of gigs.

I bethink Mark Landis accepting actual active in your success.

Absolutely. Mark was alive at 93Q and arena us there. He again went to Beaumont and took over the radio bazaar and had the ability to play any music, so he accursed some of our songs. We went from a bandage that was authoritative a bashful $300 per night to a bandage al of a sudden acceptable a business. We were authoritative $3,000 per gig and ancient arena two gigs in one day for $10,000.

The individual ‘Feel Like Makin’ Love’ on the additional anthology ‘Grip’ was a monster song actuality in Southeast Texas. Why accept that one to remake?

That was all me. I still accept to the aboriginal Bad Company version, but I won’t accept to our own version. The song had elements of Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, but it wasn’t annihilation I was alert to at the time. During that time I was alert to automated music like Erasure and Depeche Mode. EMF was absolutely big during that time, so I anticipate out song fit during the time period.

You guys began to alpha accepting some austere looks from civic almanac companies appropriate about that time. Am I correct?

I bethink Mark Landis and the backward Chuck Cotton abiding for a big wig to appear in and watch us play. His name was Jason Flom, who at the time was the arch of Atlantic Records. We in about-face got bashed afore the appearance and acted like idiots. We abstruse a lot afterwards that.

But Universal Records snagged you up and you fabricated your civic admission in 1996 with ‘Devil Thumbs a Ride.’ Accepting the third record, you could apprehend the change into a accepted bedrock band.

The No.1 burden that a lot of bands don’t wish to accept to is the burden to be a big player. During the aboriginal ’90s, you could be a abundant bedrock band, but a lot of humans were still alert to the Milli Vanilli stuff. For me, it was added like exploring boundaries. We had already been through the accomplished cyberbanking phase, so it was time to alpha evolving.

Tons of big moments in this band’s history — touring with KISS, finishing the year with a Top 10 single, just to name a few. What’s your admired moment?

Flying to New York City and traveling to Universal Records and in fact sitting in a boardroom as they apparent our almanac and accepting all the advisers there at Universal accept to it. That’s the moment you plan for. Accepting the capital songwriter in the accumulation and as alarming as it was, that moment was a big one. Don’t get me wrong. Arena shows in foreground of 5 humans or 10,000 humans is great, but it’s consistently been about autograph music for me.

The Hunger was one of the aboriginal bedrock bands to assurance with Universal, which was again a characterization abounding of pop artists. Do you anticipate the bandage and its complete was advanced of its time?

Combining the elements of what we did, yeah, we were apparently a little advanced of the time, but absolutely advanced of Universal’s time. The agents they had again and the philosophies weren’t the aforementioned as ours. I anticipation we were apparently in the appropriate time, but Universal wasn’t. We were bistro kids and they were 50- and 60-year-old humans who anticipation they knew everything.

It was alone a few years afterwards (2000) that Linkin Park debuted. Many people, including myself, anticipation their aboriginal individual ‘One Step Closer’ was a new song by The Hunger. Was that frustrating?

Growing up in the music business, you accept a lot of this is about timing and luck. Not to say Linkin Park got lucky; they just did it bigger than us.

I’m abiding you apprehend this all the time, but why not play music off ‘Leave Me Alone’?

Personally, I would play every song off that album, but I couldn’t play it in the aforementioned anatomy or adaptation like you may accept heard it in Joyo Effect Pedals. I would accept to change it up some. I re-worked ‘Never Again,’ but just can’t get the bandage to play it.

Of your complete catalog, which song agency the a lot of to you?

That’s a abundant question. I would apparently say ‘Joyo Pedals’ alone because it was the aboriginal song I anytime wrote. We wrote some songs during the aboriginal canicule but didn’t in fact almanac any of those. I wrote that song in my mother’s active room. Some humans like to apprehend into lyrics of songs, but honestly, I don’t apperceive what the hell the song absolutely means. It was just a assurance of the times. That song, easily down, is No. 1 on my list.

Going on a division century, why accumulate accomplishing it?

I’m still accepting fun, additional the guys added myself and Thomas – Alex, Darren and Tim – are autograph new actual and it sounds good, so I could possibly see a new almanac in the future. That, and annihilation replaces assuming live. It’s like a acceptable drug. You accept to accumulate traveling aback for more.

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