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gtaunton - Posted - 09/28/2009: 16:38:15
I rarely see a used Gold Star GF-200 (unless its one of the old ones) for sale. Are there not that many, are they so good that people buy them and keep them, or what's up with this? I have a Gold Star GF-100W and it's a dog-gone good banjo, especially for the money.......
The LORD will save me, and we will sing with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the temple of the LORD (Isaiah 38:20).
The Old Timer - Posted - 09/28/2009: 16:47:27
Just a guess, but you probably don't see too many of them for sale because they didn't make too many in the first place...
The Old Timer.
"Mommy, does Jesus play the banjo?" Huck Paisley (Brad Paisley's little boy) quoted in PEOPLE, Sept. 21, 2009
RB5 - Posted - 09/28/2009: 16:55:09
The older ones are the ones you want to get in the first place. Like Tom Adams Gold Star. I have tried the newer ones and they also are awesome banjo's. But you could be right about not to many of them for sale because people want to hold on to them. Why get rid of something really good.
That's my story and I'm sticking with it!
Robert.
Ray58 - Posted - 09/28/2009: 17:05:12
Tom Adams told me that he tried one of the new Gold Tones and it sounded exactly like his did when it was new. That gives hope that over time the new ones will be as good.
beegee - Posted - 09/28/2009: 17:33:39
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Originally posted by Ray58
Tom Adams told me that he tried one of the new Gold Tones and it sounded exactly like his did when it was new. That gives hope that over time the new ones will be as good.
I hope you mean Gold Star. __________________________ "It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing." - Seneca
Bradskey - Posted - 09/28/2009: 22:15:15
They couldn't possibly sell that many. The volume sellers for Gold Star are the GF-85's, just like the RK-80's for Recording King. I would guess the sales of reissue GF-200's might be in the dozens. I have a RK-87 (more expensive actually), and I've only ever even heard of one or two other people even having one, not even all that many RK-85's (the nickel version similar to GF-200) floating around. So not that many on the market, not that many go up for sale used. I guess if you're dropping that much money for an Asian banjo, you probably know you want it, while the basic bang-for-the-buck models are simply more plentiful and get horse traded a lot more.
Edited by - Bradskey on 09/29/2009 16:44:26
country frank - Posted - 09/30/2009: 02:37:06
A friend of mine has a GF200, its a great banjo for the money [actually £100 cheaper here in the UK than the RK equivalent], probably weren't/are not that many being made hence scarcity in the used market. Truth is i was a bit under-whelmed by the quality of the 'highly figured maple' neck and reso. The one i drove had a big 'ole knot visible in the neck through the finish.
Proud Union Man
Regards from London.
Bradskey - Posted - 09/30/2009: 06:21:50
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Originally posted by country frank
Truth is i was a bit under-whelmed by the quality of the 'highly figured maple' neck and reso. The one i drove had a big 'ole knot visible in the neck through the finish.
The selection of figured tone woods even on your more expensive imports and on your high-end custom and American made banjos is like night and day. On the maple RK's and Gold Stars its pretty hit and miss with the wood. Some are reasonably curly throughout, some barely at all, and some (a lot?) in between. An RK dealer told me that my banjo had some of the best wood he'd ever seen on one of these, in the neck and the resonator. It does look pretty nice, but it won't knock your socks off. On my much cheaper Korean Fender FB-58, the neck is practically plain yellow and looks like straight grain, while the (book-matched) reso has just a little bit of curl to it.
impickin5 - Posted - 09/30/2009: 16:07:14
I really like the new Gold Star banjos as well as the Vintage Gold Stars. But for the life of me, I don't understand why Saga chose to use a two-piece maple laminate on the back of the GF-200 resonators instead of a one-piece maple laminate. Just doesn't make sense to me IMHO.
Ray
Edited by - impickin5 on 09/30/2009 16:08:26
spherely - Posted - 10/01/2009: 00:26:58
I bought a used newer GF-200 here on the BHO awhile back. The owner said it was a 2006. It has a one piece resonator back. I just thought they had changed how they made them due to the complaints about the two piece backs. It's definitely not the most beautiful curly maple I've ever seen but for he price it's a really fine banjo. I play clawhammer so this was just in case I get the itch to play 3 finger every now and then. This thread gave me the itch.
Jim
Ray58 - Posted - 10/03/2009: 10:36:15
Sorry. I did mean to say Gold Star, not Gold Tone.
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