I am not going to buy another expensive guitar....

[i love sharin foo]

MY FIRST DROOLY ICON!!!   

This is definitely a good occasion for it, that's for sure. I really like sonic blue when it is paired up to a white (not mint) guard. The pickup covers and knobs haven't even yellowed much at all.

Justin

[daydreamdelay]

amazing selection.. I'm tempted to drive down and check them out but I'm quite depressed about those prices.. I think I can now officially count myself out for ever owning an original custom color Jazzmaster 

[cmatthes]

Like Gil at Southworth, he's got a soft spot for custom color offsets, but the prices he asks make me smile

A few years ago however, I couldn't get much out of him for my Sonic Blue/matching head Jag (waaaaay less than $1,000).  I sold it for $1,750, which at the time, was almost unheard of.  I live right down Old G'town Road from Gil's shop, and stop in there often.  I took my son in there a few weeks ago and he absolutely fell in love with a '62 (??) pink JM.  At the measly $4,500, Santa won't be bringing that one down the chimney in a month.  Kid's got taste, anyway!

[jetset]

My first inkling that JM's we're going up up up was a very clean '64 sunburst I sold.  I had bought it from a Yahoo "classifieds2000" ad in 1999 for like $1,000.  I ebayed it in August 2001 hoping to make a few $100, and was amazed that Gil sniped it for something like $1,800.  I delivered it by hand and he was really excited about it.  I thought I had made a killing.  heh.
-J