But even when you have a ballpark value, selling the instrument at that price is more than just a formality. Once you have correctly identified your guitar, you can look up the specific model in a guitar value guide. Guitar values can range from practically nothing, to an astronomical sum for the right guitar - and to an untrained eye, guitars at either end of the spectrum can look very similar. Before buying or selling a guitar, knowing its value is important. Having said this, there are a lot worse guitars out there, and as well as being historically important, the 1820 bass can certainly provide the goods when required.How much is my guitar worth? How can I value my guitar? These are very common questions. Over the course of the 70s, the Japanese output improved dramatically, and in many ways these early 70s models are a low point for the brand. These new Epiphones were based on existing Matsumoku guitars, sharing body shapes, and hardware, but the Epiphone line was somewhat upgraded, with inlaid logos and a 2x2 peghead configuration. The Matsumoku factory had been producing guitars for export for some time, but the 1820 bass (alongside a number of guitar models and the 5120 electric acoustic bass) were the first Epiphone models to be made there.

Vintage Supro amplifiers also have a great reputation, and are well respected in the recording studio Supro Guitarsīy the end of the 1960s, a decision had been made to move Epiphone guitar production from the USA (at the Kalamazoo plant where Gibson guitars were made), to Matsumoto in Japan, creating a line of guitars and basses significantly less expensive than the USA-built models (actually less than half the price).

Today vintage Supro guitars are somewhat collectable, and although eclipsed by the many bigger American guitar brands still fetch reasonable prices. They produced some interesting guitars in the 1960s, including some of the earliest fiberglas-bodied instruments financial pressure necessitated a merger with Kay of Chicago in 1967, but the new comapany only managed to limp on until 1968, before folding and ending all guitar production. The company produced guitars with numerous names on the headstock, with Supro and National being the best known.

Supro guitars were first produced in the 1930s by the National Dobro Corporation (rebranding as Valco in the 1940s), with the first solid body electrics produced in the early 1950s.

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