Because that link may not work forever - although I suspect it will be there for a while - the summary is: two Telecaster guitars painted to look like copies of the Teles Jimmy Page played in Led Zeppelin. Signed by Jimmy Page. £44,999.
I'd love to know what the shop markup is on those, or if they're on sale-or-return.
Synthesizers have a similar scene. An official Keith Emerson Moog Modular Replica reissue a few years ago was being sold for >$100k. (Note to those under 40: Keith Emerson was a famous/notorious rock keyboardist in the 1970s.)
Musical Instrument markup is still pretty astonishing outside the 'cocktail set' shenanigans, especially if your eyes have been bleeding from the situation in the tech scene.
It doesn't have to be a 'classic' synthesiser to command extraordinary markup/profit.
There is a reason why the current synthesiser market is vibrant and active and virulent - and nobody is playing well with each other, there are more competing platforms to do the same thing than many other spaces.
That reason is, you can spend $100 on a BOM-per-product, and sell it for 5 figures, year after year. That $3000 synth workstation, at scale, can add up to a lot of real, good old fashioned atom-based commercialisation.
> I'd love to know what the shop markup is on those, or if they're on sale-or-return.
I'd say they were pretty expensive to produce:
> And these 2 pieces were masterfully built by Paul Waller at the Fender Custom Shop under the discerning eye of Page. They are exact re-creations of his beloved guitars!
Bloody hell. I have a Nile Rodgers Custom Strat that Paul Waller was involved in but certainly didn't make himself. And less than a tenth of the price of these two. Is there really a significant difference in provenance between a Custom Shop guitar and a Master Built?
Because that link may not work forever - although I suspect it will be there for a while - the summary is: two Telecaster guitars painted to look like copies of the Teles Jimmy Page played in Led Zeppelin. Signed by Jimmy Page. £44,999.
I'd love to know what the shop markup is on those, or if they're on sale-or-return.
Synthesizers have a similar scene. An official Keith Emerson Moog Modular Replica reissue a few years ago was being sold for >$100k. (Note to those under 40: Keith Emerson was a famous/notorious rock keyboardist in the 1970s.)