# Lets talk about the best Acoustic guitars ever made.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 18, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-the-best-acoustic-guitars-ever-made/704998 "2014-11-18T20:51:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-the-best-acoustic-guitars-ever-made/704998/21 "2014-11-19T23:29:07Z")

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> [@WordMan](#):
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> As for a $10,000 Collings? Yeah, no way - for that kinda cash, you can easily get into a great 1940’s Gibson J-45, a late '40’s Martin D-18 or a late 50’s D-28 made with Brazilian Rosewood, let alone a variety of other amazing vintage guitars. No contest.

By the way, to be clear: I didn’t pay \*close \*to $10K for any of the guitars I have mentioned upthread. I am an inveterate haggler, and worked out trades and such. My biggest source of funds was that I used to collect first edition books and was very fortunate that some went way up in value. When you can get a first of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (first in book form in 1902’s Youth) for a few hundred bucks and sell it 3-4 years later for $4,000 (I still can’t believe it - and I sold it to a dealer!), you build up a guitar fund.

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