I paid around $800 for the Gibson on ebay and gigged heavily with it. It's definately no collectors piece being a 1 in a million newer utility guitar. I wanted to upgrade it with something newer like a '61 reissue. I've been a hardcore vintage guitar collector for many years selling, trading, and buying with everyone across the world including The Beach Boys. If you have any questions about any of your guitars send me a pic and I can price it or authenticate it for you. The Ar-15, I paid 575.00 for it and sold the scope off it for 110.00 so I had 465.00 into it. That makes close to touching 1300.00. He threw in these two iron cross medals from both world wars and a raven .25. I sold the .25 for what will amount to around $75. After I trade the medals off I should have around $1100 or a little less into it. I figured that it did probably have an issue or two besides the reblue but from what I've studied on the auction sites I was comfortable with what I had into it. I've been eyeing lugers for a while because I like to collect German war fodder. Something about these guns lured me in and I'm not really a gun guy. I wouldn't mind getting a luger thats a honest and solid piece. I will hopefully get you guys to authenticate it for me before I pay any real money for one. I just wanted to get the ball rolling with this one being it was in my neighborhood already. I already ordered a case for it from uniquecanes.com and want to get one of those shoulder stocks for 129.00 that will fit neatly into the case and shoot it a few times here and there. I'd like to get a nazi marked luger and a marked p-38 also.
Back to the gun.. How can you tell it's been reblued? I would like to know when I pick up a luger how to tell right away it's been reblued? THank you very much -mike
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