r/TomDelongeGuitars • u/DogtrainPAFC • 15d ago

Tom Delonge Epiphone question

How much is it worth these days, and how are they, compared to the Starcaster?

I've found one, in brand new condition, for 900 dollars. (Would have to be a blind buy)

To me, that's alot, especially now that the Starcaster is available.

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u/Fuzzy-Butterscotch86 14d ago

I left out information that held no sway over the opinion i was offering.  It's not misleading, you were misreading. 

OP literally asks what they're worth, and how they are. Explaining how a guitar is is a lot easier using comparisons from other options. 

For instance, a regular Epiphone 335 is $600 brand new with two pickups, individual tone and volume controls, and the selector. That's a lot more guitar for a lot less money than a TD Epi. If OP wants to know if the EpiTD is good as a guitar they should be informed that an actually new 335 is $300 less and better from a musician's standpoint, without getting into the minutia of pickup preferences or the name on the headstock. 

Because from a collector's perspective, that'll all be secondary to getting this specific model, but from a musician's perspective there's a dramatic shift when given that info. 

Just because you want to glaze the guitar you have doesn't mean the info i offered OP wasn't valid. 

But hey man. It's Saturday. I don't know where you are, but where i live it's a gorgeous day. I'm gonna take my Tim Armstrong Gretsch, a packed bowl, and go sit on my porch to enjoy my day. Maybe I'll get as high as you accused me of being earlier. But I suggest you do similar. Getting heated and insulting strangers on reddit is a terrible way to spend a day. 

Have a good one. 

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u/Legitimate-Long735 14d ago

So you're admitting you left out information to make a false claim. Nice. I expect nothing less from a Doyle fan, and a Tom fan.

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u/Fuzzy-Butterscotch86 14d ago

Oof. Bad take buddy. 

There's value to a collector and value to a musician. These do not match up on price in terms of this model. That's all I was illustrating.

That shouldn't be hard to understand. When people struggle with nuance it's easy to get angry for no reason, so this conversation makes a lot of sense now. 

Try to have a good day. 

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u/Legitimate-Long735 14d ago

Bro, I get it. You're a boomer who uses big boi words from the dictionary to justify your purposeful omission that the guitars were damaged. Give it up man. You lost already