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GUEST: I acquired this through
my son. My son is deceased,
he passed away in 1999.

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APPRAISER: Sorry to hear that.

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GUEST: Thank you. Um, he had a
love for music and a love for
guitars. And this is something

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that he basically left behind
for me. I don't know what he
paid for it. A friend of his

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told me it was in the $2,000
range. It might have been at
a guitar show or it could have

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been some other way, but
that's all I really know.

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APPRAISER: And do you
play this now, yourself?

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GUEST: I do, kind of a
self-taught singer-songwriter
type, and all I know,
really, are chords.

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The way I started is because I
had a dream about him, I woke
up, wrote down some notes,

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created a song, and the
rest is history. From
that day forward, I've
been playing guitar

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as much as I can, so...

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APPRAISER: Mm-hmm. It's a Fender
Broadcaster neck, but I took
the body apart. I took the

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pickguard off to see... There
were, a couple of things about
it concern me, as far as being

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a Broadcaster. One, the
finish doesn't quite match the
neck on the, from the body.

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GUEST: Exactly.

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APPRAISER: The neck is, in
my estimation, is an original
Broadcaster neck. It's not

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dated, but it's probably
from around 1950 or '51.

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GUEST: Okay, wow.

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APPRAISER: The body, however,
while it is a Fender body,
this, I believe, is a reissue

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from their vintage reissue
series, probably made in
the, around the 1980s.

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GUEST: Oh, okay, hmm.

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APPRAISER: And the
pickguard also could
have, could be original to
that 1980s Fender-bodied

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guitar. But everything else on
the guitar-- the neck plate,
the pickups, the wiring is

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the original cloth wiring, the
control plate-- all the, all
the parts on this guitar, the

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tuners included, are original
to the original Broadcaster.

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GUEST: Broadcaster, wow, okay.

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APPRAISER: So, it's a
perfectly, I'm sure,
functional fine-playing guitar.

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GUEST: Yes.

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APPRAISER: And probably sounds,
sounds great. But, value-wise,
this guitar, with the changed

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body, is worth approximately
$8,000 to $10,000 at retail.

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GUEST: Okay.

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APPRAISER: If this thing was
original right now, it would
probably be worth about $40,000

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at retail.

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GUEST: I'm going to keep it and
continue playing it, continue to
love it and enjoy it. To honor

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my son, Jason.