What are these worth? (Guitar and Amp)

[RICEY]

Guitar is a Vester, say THE 1400 on the neck which I presume is the model.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/markrice/06062009131.jpg

Amp is a Laney

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/markrice/06062009133.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/markrice/06062009135.jpg

Both in good working order though the guitar needs a tune, also comes with cord obviously...

Anyway looking to sell but have no idea of value, anyone in the know help me out?

Cheers.

[VT SS]

Never heard of the brand guitar before dude, looks like a pack more suited towards a beginner / learner..

id say ball park $200-$300

[RICEY]

Yeah thats what I was thinking...


Vester was a music instrument manufacturer specializing in guitars and guitar amplifiers. Formed as a part of the Samuel Music Company based in Effingham, Illinois, Vester is perhaps best known for their good quality Japanese and Korean import electric and acoustic guitars.

The Samuel Music Company, founded in 1946, is the proprietor and owner of a chain of music stores which sold pianos and specialized in school band renting programs. Following the success of several small luthier businesses such as Jackson Guitars and ESP Guitars in the late '80s boom of the rock music industry, the Samuel Music company decided to launch its own brand of guitars, and named the brand Vester.

Rather than manufacture the instruments themselves, Vester used imported instruments, which were made by Saehan Guitar Technology, a subdivision of Zaozhuang Saehan Music Co., Ltd in South Korea (now known as Sunghan Music). The guitars were imported into the United States by Midco Music (now Musicorp), at the time chaired by David Samuel. Design specifications were dictated by Samuel Music in Illinois and revolved around variations on Saehan's preexisting top-of-the-line models.

Eventually, Vester guitars managed to find a good home in the marketplace and covered a broad range of Japanese and Korean made middle-to upper-range acoustic and electric guitars, along with basic solid state amplifier models. Through contacts in the music industry Vester was able to secure endorsements from several popular musicians of the period, including the Country and Western band Alabama.

Following the Vester corporation's initial success in the marketplace was the company's sudden and unexpected demise. In a move similar to the Norlin Corporation's (Gibson) lawsuit of Ibanez, the Fender Corporation began preparing a litigatory action against Samuel Music in 1994, for allegedly basing the Vester brand on a "sound-alike" for "Fender"; even going so far as to cite the typefont used in the logo was identical to Fender's trademarked font. Samuel Music, lacking the funds for a prolonged legal battle, settled the matter out of court and sold out all remaining stock.

[nicecar]

Never heard of vesta neither, but if its a beginners guitar its doing well with 4 pickups

Amp wouldve been 250ish new, does it say the model on it? i.e. MXD00

[scj91]

WRONG.

Ricey i suggest you look it up,i can't find any exact information on you're guitar.
But it's a korean brand,(They still made decent guitars) judging by yours it's a early 90's.
Some of vesters guitars like there customs are chasing $1800 US.
So i suggest you research it up.
You never know

EDIT.

You could probably get 400 ish for it.

They were a mid 80's brand,a saehen guitar imported into the uk.
They're a good guitar but have shit hardware on them,so they never really took off too well.

[RICEY]

Model number is HC25

[RICEY]

WRONG.

Ricey i suggest you look it up,i can't find any exact information on you're guitar.
But it's a korean brand,(They still made decent guitars) judging by yours it's a early 90's.
Some of vesters guitars like there customs are chasing $1800 US.
So i suggest you research it up.
You never know

yeah been trying to find info on it myself...

[Rantopotamus]

Ricey my house mate is a guitar guru i will show him tonite and get back to you..

he sells Guitars worth thousands all day. But yeah the lacey amp is worth $150 at the most...

[RICEY]

Cheers Dufus.

[scj91]

just posted shit on a vester fan site,see what i get back ahaha

[RICEY]

lol me too

[RICEY]

HC25 is on the amp you clown not the guitar hahaha

[VT SS]

Put it bluntly, i wouldnt be expecting anything much over $200 for it as a package...

simply look at the packages they got now, New guitar/amp combo's with leads, cases/straps anywhere between $300-400 albeit with a smaller amp usally 10-15watt..

Given that its used but visually from picture still looks decent condition, take that into account and the larger amp then the combos available, people will choose the new over the s/h.

as for $400 for the guitar nope, gotta take into account alot of things, you said it yourself the hardware was crap, they wouldnt of wasted good wood for the body/neck/fretboard just to install crap hardware, even from looking at it you can tell its aimed more at the beginner.

its pretty easy to spot quality, like lets use my basses as a example http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5237/ltdf405.th.jpg (http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ltdf405.jpg)

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/2429/sx4string.th.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sx4string.jpg)

[scj91]

HC25 is on the amp you clown not the guitar hahaha

Fak hahaha,could've said.

[Rantopotamus]

Ricey sorry to say my house mate says fuck all... would pay $100 for it:-)

gd luck!

[RICEY]

ok so $250 for both sounds fair then