Bill Alston

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FENDER GUITARS
Fender Aerodyne Strats and Teles | Squier Classic Vibe Guitars | Highway 1 and American Special Strats | Highway 1 and American Special Telecasters | The CBS Era Strats |

Mexican Fenders
 Standard Mexican SSS Strats | Classic Series Strats | Classic Player Strats | Roadworn Strats | Vintage Player Strats
| Various Mexican Deluxe SSS Strat Ranges | Mexican Strat Artist Models | Mexican Strats with Humbuckers |
Standard Telecasters Mexican | Telecaster Mexican Vintage Style | Telecaster Mexican Revised Models | Telecaster Mexican Artist Models | Telecaster Mexican 72 Reissues

Japanese Stratocasters
 Introduction | The ST 54s

YAMAHA GUITARS
Superaxe SA Guitars | SAS Guitars | MSG Image Guitars | YSG Guitars | VG Guitars | Explorers and Flying Vs | Super RnR Guitars | Weddington Guitars
ST and STH Guitars | Studio Lords and Lord Players | Rare or Unusual Yamaha Guitars | SEs and Sessions | SX range | SGRRs
| Superjam range | Supercombinator range | AE | AES | AEX | SGV and EGV | SS Range | MG Guitars | RGZ Guitars | RGS Guitars
| YG Guitars | YGX Guitars | YGS Guitars|


BURNS GUITARS
My Burns Guitar Site

Some Guitar Information

On this page I will post information to assist people in buying selling and identifying guitars. My interests are Yamaha Fender and Paul Reed Smith Guitars and these will be the guitars I focus on. This information will change and be added to often. Keep checking back.

What is it worth


I maintain a database of sales of Fender (including Squier, but I have stopped recording anything below 100gbp) and PRS guitars sold on Ebay. This tells me what people will pay for them and hence what they are really worth. What people ask for them is irrelevant and many are pitched far too high on Ebay. I am always willing to give advice if asked. I am starting to include Burns and Westone in the Miscellaneous just because I have taken an interest in them, they don't come up often so it will take some time to become worthwhile . The links below are to spreadsheets containing prices paid they are downloadable and can be sorted and filtered in all the normal ways. If you are buying a used Fender send me pictures, there are a lot of fakes about and if I am not sure I can ask the experts for you. I have recently changed the format to make comparing and sorting much easier.

American Fenders
Mexican Fenders
Other Fenders
Squier Fenders
PRS
Miscellaneous Yamaha Tokai and Others

There is a company in the UK based in the Bath area which holds specialist guitar auctions regularly. This is not like Ebay it is an auction house with knowledgeable people who do proper appraisals you should visit their website the link is on my links page. They have records of sales going back several years for all makes of guitar. I am listing the models I am interested in (Fender Yamaha and Tokai) since the beginning of 2014, but you can check the others for yourself.

Guitar Auctions

What model is it


I am starting to build a library of Fender Stratocaster Factsheets, these will contain facts to enable people to recognise different Strats and perhaps to spot fakes or partscasters. I intend to add to these regularly so keep checking back. The links below will be to pdfs which are downloadable>

Post CBS Standard Strats
Highway One and American Special
CBS Standards
Mexican SSS Models