Megan PWNS the thrift store



I walk right past it. Don't even see it.

From behind me Megan says, "Hey, pull that guitar down."

I look up. I see it. A Martin headstock. I reach for it.

24 dollars and 24 cents. We both assume it's fake. Even a fake Martin is worth twenty five dollars. I play it, it sounds good. I try to call my dad, no answer. We decide to buy it.

Later in the car, my dad calls. I say, "How much is Martin 00-17 worth?" We were thinking several hundred dollars, maybe ten times what we paid for it.

He says, "About a thousand dollars, why?"

"WHAT!?!" I'm shocked. "Well, Megan just found one at the thrift store for twenty four dollars."

"WHAT!?!" He's more shocked than I am. He's in town and coming over to look at it.

We get home and look up the serial number. We don't believe that it's right so we look it up again. We check a third time just to be sure.

The Martin website says it's a 1950. We look up similar 00-17s in similar conditions.

In bad shape, $1200. In good shape, $1800. Ours is very, very clean.

It's the buy of a lifetime. We've peaked. We'll never find anything better than this, and in some ways, it makes us sad. That sadness will be fully assuaged when we sell it at the guitar show next weekend.

Anybody want to buy a 1950 Martin 00-17 folk guitar? I'll throw in a new case.
- posted by Mason @ 11:24 PM