Q&A with Mike #20 | ATB Guitars

[@MrGuitarboy100]

Thanks for mentioning me! Hearing my name took me by surprise, so thank you for the great info about the ES-335! Keep it up! Joel Mason

[@robertfair1770]

I have a 57 Fender Stratocaster that's been well played and is needing a fret job I will most likely do the fret job after the Q/A's..

[@DDE_ADDICT]

I like watching your shows in Canada.

[@ATBGuitars]

Thanks 🙏

[@bleeknoir]

Thanks Mike. I love my 175D 54 reissue. Limited to 50 pieces, it’s just the ultimate hollow bodied archtop for my tax bracket. Question for Q&A: when it comes to pricing vintage Juniors, how do you go about doing that? Can you also speak to how a neck and headstock repair impacts pricing on the used market, in terms of loss of value, and how this impacts pricing? Thank you

[@ATBGuitars]

Good questions!

[@anthonycraig1458]

Great Q&A. Can wholeheartedly agree with your comments about the ES225, very underrated and sustains really well and those P90s have got such a sweet warm tone. Also a vintage ES175 with replaced pickups isn't entirely a bad thing either, not a bad entry point into that model.

[@realdocloco]

Just found a '74 Fender Musicmaster bass amp - sound to die for ... with a guitar. Loud enough for small gigs

[@strumminronin]

WOW!! I hope to come across one of those at some point. They are few and far between.

[@nationalduo4945]

Great Channel from Canada 🇨🇦

[@ATBGuitars]

Thanks! 😃

[@nationalduo4945]

I have an Early 1969 Drip Edge Champ….great amp….

[@jamesbailey5008]

Love these

[@thatguitarguy5856]

Hi Mike. Do you know what happened to Rex Brayley's burst? He was the guitar player in "Love Affair". Their first hit was "Everlasting Love", and they had a number of others, in England/Europe. He had it in the first video they did in, I think, late '67. It's also in their later vids. A bit before your time, I suspect-but it's a burst so I won't be surprised if you know something. I'm the guy that turned up Robbie's cherry '60 LP Standard in the early '70's, so I've been around for a while. Thanks

[@ATBGuitars]

Sorry I do not know. Interesting story though!

[@thatguitarguy5856]

@@ATBGuitars Thanks for the response. It's always fun to see them turn up in unexpected places in old videos. I paid $300 and $275 for the first 2 I found. Ah, the good old days. Cheers!

[@thefilmandmusic]

335 there’s something to the thin top theory ..I recently played one of the recent veneer top ones and it was dead as a doornail …

[@furryelvis]

Id take slight issue with the hollow body answer. Ive had a 50s Gibson es225. Great guitars. Ive also recently had a Gibson es175. Okay guitars. Pretty good. However I much prefer my early 60s Gretsch 6117 and 6118. Less than half the price and sounds fantastic

[@ATBGuitars]

Thanks for sharing!

[@hotblackdesiato3451]

Is it true that the 1958-60 'bursts were made from mahogany which was over 150 years old and can you confirm if the early SGs & Juniors were also constructed from the same old-growth timber?

[@ATBGuitars]

Good questions!